27.04.07 - Axxom Software AG Exhibits at SAPPHIRE^® ’07 Vienna

Accelerate your business by integrating SAP^® applications with ORion-PI^®

Munich, 26^th April 2007 - From May 14^th to 16^th 2007 Axxom Software AG will showcase its solution portfolio based on SAP^® applications at SAPPHIRE^® ‘07 Vienna. In line with the fair’s motto "Business at the Speed of Change" the German technology company will present solutions which help companies to turn the accelerated global changes into their own competitive edge. All Axxom modules presented in hall B / booth 2.3 work as add-on and can easily be integrated with SAP applications via a special tool called ORion-PI^® Direct Link to SAP applications. Focus of the exhibition rests on the following planning and optimization approaches: solutions for the stra-tegic planning & optimization of production and logistics networks, modules for the optimization of logistics processes and a demand-oriented workforce management and advanced planning systems for detailed scheduling. Those interested are invited to take a closer look at project scenarios of leading users of SAP applications.

"Axxom’s entire planning and optimization portfolio can be easily integrated with SAP applications. SAPPHIRE ’07 Vienna thus is the ideal platform to introduce the advantages of an easy integration of their SAP applications with our planning and optimization systems. No matter if strategic or operative, if in production or logistics, with ORion-PI^® Direct Link to SAP applications we guarantee a fast and easy exchange of data between SAP applications and our solutions." stresses Dr. Christoph Plapp, Manager of the Board at Axxom Munich.

The solutions showcased at SAPPHIRE ‘07 Vienna can be divided in four major application areas:

• "On top of" SAP applications: modules for the strategic planning & optimization of production and logistics networks
  
  ORion-PI^® Value Network Optimization is an integrated solution for the design, simulation, planning and optimization of network scenarios and value-added processes relevant to production and logistics.
  
  The ORion-PI^® Business Planner supports strategic capacity planning and the simulation of business scenarios. It helps to optimize batch sizes and inventories (working capital) across all process steps of the supply chain.
  
  
• SAP applications "plug-in": Solutions for the optimization of logistics processes, integrated with the logistics portfolio of SAP LES/EWM or SAP PP via ORion-PI^® Direct Link to SAP applications
  
  The portfolio contains modules for the simulation, for order batch optimization, order sequencing and pick process optimization, for the generation of "Golden Cartons", for replenishment, the optimization of carton sizes and carton filling.
  
  
• SAP software "add-on": solutions for a demand-oriented workforce management in production and logistics, based on mySAP^™ ERP HCM
  
  ORion-PI^® Demand-oriented Workforce Management is a comprehensive module for the planning and optimization of short-, mid- and long-term personnel capacities which is oriented along the actually prognosticated need. The solution can, among others, be used to optimize shift patterns or to balance in-house staff and temporary workers.
  
  
• SAP applications "add-on": APS system for operative planning, complementing SAP PP and SAP PP-PI, respectively mySAP^™ SCM
  
  ORion-PI^® offers company, as well as industry specific planning solutions, supporting e.g. sequence planning, capacity utilization or manufacturing control. It accounts for cycles in the material flow, for by-products, available personnel or sequence and attribute dependant cleaning/set-up.

Profile Axxom Software AG

Axxom Software AG is an international provider of software solutions developed for the com-prehensive optimization of value-add processes. With its software ORion-PI^® the technology company offers a solution for the design, simulation, planning and optimization of all business processes in distribution, logistics and production. Among its customers there are leading manufacturers and suppliers from the automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical industries as well as businesses from the logistics, shipping and distribution sector. Axxom’s headquarters are in Munich, Germany. The company has a sales branch office in Cork/Ireland as well as a development and support centre in Timisoara/Romania.


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