Visteon Selects Product Life-Cycle Management With mySAP.com
11 April 2000
Visteon Selects Product Life-Cycle Management With mySAP.com
WALLDORF, Germany--April 11, 2000--To Improve Product Designs and Bring Products to Market Faster
SAP AG , the leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, today announced that Visteon Automotive Systems, a $17 billion automotive components and systems supplier, has selected SAP(TM) Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM), an integrated business application within mySAP.com(TM), for managing the complete product life cycle of the extended supply chain from design and production through sales and maintenance.
The implementation of SAP PLM will enable more than 6,000 users at Visteon to collaborate on product design, manufacturing and service within Visteon as well as with external trading partners.
"To maintain a competitive edge in the automotive industry, a fine-tuned supply chain is absolutely essential," said Richard Smith, manager of Enterprise Engineering Projects at Visteon Automotive Systems. "We've selected SAP PLM to achieve greater control and accuracy over the product life cycle, bring products to market faster and, ultimately, improve product designs to better satisfy our customers' needs."
The SAP PLM solution at Visteon will ensure that employees can access and engage the information they need at any time and from any place, enabling them to work in a truly collaborative fashion. For example, using the SAP PLM solution, an employee in the engineering department at Visteon can create and enter a product description into mySAP.com. Once a customer places an order for this product, whether from Detroit or Paris, a production order is created within mySAP.com for a plant in that locale. If, on receiving the order, the local production engineer needs information about the physical characteristics of the product or the manufacturing process before coordinating production, he or she will be able to use an Internet browser to access mySAP.com and obtain graphical and textual information about the product through SAP PLM. As a result of this real-time collaboration, two engineers in distant locations will be able to create improved product designs and ultimately help Visteon deliver products to market at an accelerated rate.
"To succeed in the new economy, companies need to effectively collaborate in real time on all aspects of the product with their employees, customers and business partners," said Claus E. Heinrich, member of the executive board of SAP AG. "Product Lifecycle Management with mySAP.com enables this collaboration between a company and its partners by providing direct, inter-enterprise, role-based access to relevant information and business processes via the Internet."
About Visteon
Visteon Corp. is a leading full-service supplier that delivers breakthrough, consumer-driven technology solutions to nearly every automotive manufacturer in the world. Visteon has a global delivery system of more than 130 technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in 23 countries. It has 81,000 employees working in three core business segments: Dynamics and Energy Conversion; Comfort, Communications and Safety; and Glass.
About SAP
As the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions, SAP is leveraging its strength in industry-focused business software and the world's largest enterprise software customer base to deliver mySAP.com. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. mySAP.com allows people to harness the power of the Internet to work smarter, better and faster by optimizing supply chains, managing strategic relationships, reducing time to market, sharing virtual information, and increasing productivity and shareholder value. SAP is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." The SAP World Wide Web site can be found at http://www.sap.com.
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