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Put the burger in the bun: Customer facing VC - From customer-known cstics to SAP-known BOMs
| Presenter | Peter Keller |
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| Bio | Peter Keller studied Mechanical Engineering and started his career as a Product Manager for electrical connectors at Phoenix Contact, a leading developer and manufacturer of industrial electrical and electronic technology. He joined the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Team when Phoenix Contact introduced SAP in their German plants and was responsible for the setup of a variant system for Sensor-/Actuator Cables using CMAT. Today Peter Keller is responsible for the modeling of variants in Phoenix Contact's international ERP systems (SAP R/3, Baan IV) as well as for the transfer of dependency knowledge, for a Corporate Identity for product configuration and for concept and design of Web Search Assistant applications. |
| Company | Phoenix Contacts  |
| Abstract | Phoenix Contact uses SAP VC in manufacturing for years, but is now challenged to let customers understand the Phoenix-internal language. This presentation shows the "valley of tears" a company goes through when trying to do this "ERP-only". - Customer online configuration connected to the SAP-internal configuration. How? - Product data - Where do they come from? Where are they stored? How are they used? - My data - your data: Who owns the product cstics? - The challenge: Combine product data and dependency knowledge for x to the power of y possibilities - The Phoenix Contact Attempt |
| Audience | Intermediate: Business Mgr, Product Mgr, Project Mgr, Configuration Mgr/Dir |
| Presentation | Customer facing VC... |