SAP to acquire Visiprise MES for integrated perfect plant

Jim Hagemann Snabe, for SAP, says that integrating US-based Visiprise’s plant-level MES will bring discrete manufacturing users the potential to increase production responsiveness, improve operational efficiencies and enhance quality and regulatory compliance. He also states that the addition of Visiprise furthers the company’s stated strategy to bring together core SAP solutions with those of its partners to drive innovation for discrete manufacturers. “The automation of business processes for manufacturing companies has been core to the SAP strategy for more than 30 years,” says Hagemann Snabe. “This combination will offer manufacturers better visibility by linking the operations of the plant floor to production planning and operations management – enabling manufacturers to respond profitably to the growing demands of their global customers.” Visiprise, which has been a long-term partner in the SAP community, has considerable form, notably in high tech, aerospace and defence, automotive and medical device manufacturing. Hagemann Snabe believes the acquisition moves all that up a level – the combination of SAP Business Suite, the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) and Visiprise Manufacturing offering customers “network-wide visibility, enterprise orchestration, plant to network data integration and the ability to deploy end-to-end plan-to-make processes across multiple plants through an integrated ERP and MES solution from a single partner.