Abbreviations

Manufacturing Execution System

Enterprise Resource Planning

Customer Relationship Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Statement of Work

Material Resource Planning

ERP Software (Quite A Disappointment)

Consulting

A Messaging Middleware (ESB),

Service Oriented Architecture (how you construct a software system), "service" means it's communication protocol

Enterprise Service Bus; Messaging Middleware (Vehicle that transports data, system in middleware software architecture responsible for delivering data from one system to another)

Handles communication between software systems with different vendors (could be same language, but different terminology in the software)

Computer company, competitor in a lot of markets, including ESB

Competitor, One of the major ESB made by IBM, Java based, Message Queue

Competitor, Software that handles databases, application development, Middleware, etc. bought Fusion Middleware, ESB vendor

Competitor, ESB vendor

Huge automotive seat supplier

Competitor (used by Lear), ESB vendor

Key Safety System, makes seatbelts and airbags

Chief Information Officer, manages IT systems

Original Equipment Manufacturer, makes some parts and assemble cars

Bill of Materials, what you need to make the product on multiple layers of complexity

Integrate different softwares

Integration tried to avoid this

Product Life Management, manages creation of product, used BOM and part number (model number)

Text based universal language, structures

Software as a Service, on the cloud, not buying software installed on PC, buying right to use service on the cloud. Subscription. Advantage: Not responsible for hardware, easy for deployment, doesn't have to be installed on several PCs. Very trendy.

On site, Microsoft Exchange, Exchange is a physical server

One server has software on it, multiple companies can use it at the same time

One company on each server, because ERP is sensitive and security risk (QAD)

Committed to action until it completes, waits for response before continuing

Message sent, can do other things without having reply, doesn't need reply

(Batch and Real Time are a different set of definitions) everything gathered in a batch, then released at same time

Doesn't wait for things to build up into batch

Not waiting, so asynchronous

Different scenarios in which data exchange is needed

Software specifically made for cloud

A scenario

Business to business

Electronic Data Interchange

Healthcare, exchanging data to government and insurance companies

Very important behind the scenes

Runtime environment: software execution component, runs the middleware (Java process)

Collect of Atoms (runtime environments), software component, actually does the work on the hardware (on server)

Traditional software solution where multi-tenancy achieved via multiple install instances,

Language, also a platform; has its own runtime environment, which means a part of the hardware is allocated to it. Server side technology

Single entry point, like single web address,

Describes the structure of data, visibility of data

Most common database, different tables with multiple fields and such, database defined by relationships between tables

1. Reports inventory changes, updates inventory 2. Based on BOM, reports how many components (raw materials) it used 3. Financial reporting, transaction log, VERY COMPLEX

Automated Clear House: purchase order payment sent directly through banks

Root Cause Analysis; used for exception handling, first step for errors is to figure out why

Real time, immediately sends a trigger ("event"), disadvantage; difficulty handling large volumes, sending thousands of messages/transaction, multiple ones fail, lots of errors difficult to manage

Direct Data Publishing; batches, easier to handle large volume, (can still do single messages), bc one big files instead of lots of small ones, easier to manage errors

QXtend Inbound

Network protocol, IP addresses and port numbers

Domain Name Service, gives IP address for browser addresses

Transactions not done real time, done at end of day for repetitive predictable processes; Report inventory, credit inventory (seats into inventory), at the end of day based on BOM calculates amount of material used (ex) 2 fabric for each seat, 38 seats made), then update materials