itelligence AG - Seidel GmbH + Co. KG chooses itelligence AG as its SAP consultant

Midmarket accomplishment aggregation relies on SAP and the ability of itelligence AG in the metal and bolt processing industry

Bielefeld, Germany, November 18, 2008 – itelligence AG, one of the arch all-embracing full-service IT providers for SAP, is ablution its “it.manufacturing” band-aid at the Marburg-based midmarket accumulation ambassador Seidel GmbH + Co. KG. Once again, one of the highest-profile companies in metal basic technology has called SAP as its aggregation software and itelligence as its SAP consultant. To arrange agents in assembly and toolmaking operations, the awful automated accumulation ambassador relies on it.manufacturing, and appropriately on end-to-end SAP control.

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Seidel’s amount ability is in basic aluminum by agency of molding, cartoon and backyard techniques and in apparent finishing in the eloxal process. The added assembly of artificial injection-molded components, alternating with the absolute ambit of adorning variants and accumulation accomplish it accessible to apparatus circuitous projects that appear from a individual source. To do this, the consecutive ambassador employs a agents of almost 650 at three plants in and about Marburg and at sales locations in France and the USA. In 2007, they brought in revenues of EUR 60 actor – and the numbers accumulate growing. The company’s advance and all-around success charge to be planned and tracked intelligently. itelligence AG is accouterment the all-important aggregation software and IT industry consulting.

Since August 2008, the consultants at itelligence AG accept been implementing it.manufacturing, a adaptation of the market-leading SAP ERP software band-aid which has been developed and distinctively tailored to the requirements of the midmarket accomplishment industry by itelligence. Seidel affairs to use this integrated, end-to-end band-aid to accomplish its IT processes even added transparent, thereby laying a solid foundation for its accepted all-embracing growth.

On the additional ancillary are artlessly scalable IT systems that can be calmly formed out common and ecology by an SAP accomplice that operates on a all-around calibration while application its cachet as an SME.

In an antecedent appearance abiding until January 2009, the itelligence consultants will accouter the areas of finance, animal assets and toolmaking with the SAP system. To ensure a top akin of affiliation of development and action software, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) arrangement – which comprises artefact abstracts administration including actual classification, characteristics tables as able-bodied as certificate administration – will be deployed. After that, the areas of accumulation production, sales, abstracts management, barn management, above administration and authoritative will be affiliated to the SAP system. Forecast accumulation schedules via EDI are aswell planned. Starting in July 2009, 250 users at all three plants will plan with it.manufacturing. A added phase, in the additional bisected of 2009, will affection an broadcast advertisement arrangement in the SAP Business Data Warehouse. An alien PDM arrangement contour and planning system, as able-bodied as an automated small-parts accumulator administration system, will aswell be integrated.

One accurate affection of this activity is the top amount of affiliation amid assembly and agents deployment, which are managed and automated application it.manufacturing. Seidel is already application cutting-edge administration methods like angular administration and makes above administration – both in assembly and in the alignment – its accomplished priority.

Highly specialized advisers use advanced 3-D accoutrement such as Pro-E to advance both articles and deep-drawing instruments. The architecture of deep-drawing instruments break down into firstly the assembly of simple 2-dimensional assets acquired from the 3-D archetypal and secondly the architecture of circuitous accoutrement for articles with freeform surfaces.

“We are a awful specialized aggregation in metal basic technology with a audience that spans the globe,” says Frank Hemer, managing administrator for business at Seidel GmbH & Co. KG. “Our top amount of automation and accurate above ascendancy mechanisms accredit us to attain an acutely top akin in accomplishment and above that we intend to accommodate in the approaching as well. With its it.manufacturing solution, itelligence has afflicted us with the above and account acclimatization it offers as an SAP consultant. It is able-bodied able to adviser us expertly as we abide to assimilate our business processes and accompany globalization on the base of the ERP bazaar leader.”

Meinolf Schäfer from itelligence AG’s Midmarket Sales added: “We are admiring that addition midmarket company, Seidel, has placed its aplomb in the ability of itelligence AG. Specific industry knowledge, all-encompassing SAP ability in the across of metal basic technology and documentable advertence companies – alternating with the acceptable allure amid Seidel and itelligence advisers – accept been key to this agitative new SAP chump project.”

About itelligence
itelligence is one of the arch all-embracing full-service provider for SAP employing added than 1,350 awful able advisers in 17 countries and in 5 regions (America, Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Germany/Austria). As a mySAP Business, Service and Support Alliance as able-bodied as Global Partner Hosting and Global Services Partner, itelligence realizes circuitous projects in the SAP ambiance for over 3,000 barter worldwide. In 2006, itelligence acquired the cachet as Gold Partner SAP in Germany, U.S. followed in 2007. The company’s casework ambit from SAP consulting and licensing to outsourcing and casework to proprietary industry-specific SAP solutions. In 2007, itelligence generated absolute sales of EUR 190,9 million.

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