St. Jude Medical Inc

Windchill and SAP Integration

10.2MO30

2nd Phase Success story

• 2nd Phase success story board.

• 2nd Phase went Go-Line on june-2014.• Part, BOM and ECN are successfully published.• Still now no Windchill and SAP integration errors.• ZERO errors as of now.

Windchill ESI case study

• Web Services – Part Number• SAP is the master system for part numbers• If “PLM Only” is selected as “No” or blank a SAP Part number

will be retrieved during part creation from SAP using the object initialization rules of part type.

• Object Initialization Rules (OIR) in Windchill will be used to fetch the part number from SAP during the part creation process in Windchill

• Based on the “PLM_only” attribute value to “No”, the rule will invoke a SOAP call to a TIBCO process to fetch SAP part number.

• Created new log service for part Number generator in Tibco.

Windchill ESI case study

• Auto Assign Plants ( DTs) to Parts and BOM based SJM requirements.

• Object filtered to publish to SAP which are PLM only “No”.• Tibco will allow to publish SELECTED Parts only.• Some of the parts and BOMs are filtered out based on Material

Type.• Tibco prevented to publish some of Parts and some of BOMs to

SAP.• Republishing same ECN multiple times to SAP.• Windchill ESI service is republishing same ECN again and again

to SAP with new Date Effectivity.• Tibco Reset ECN effectivity date in SAP if ECN is changed ECN.

Windchill ESI case study

• More Part custom attributes published to SAP• More BOM custom attributes published to SAP• Windchill publishing EBOM , MBOM and PBOM to SAP.

Windchill ESI case study

• Automatic Assign Distribution Targets• Windchill ESI services automatically assign the distribution

Targets to Parts based on Part type.• Auto Publish Parts and BOMs to SAP• Windchill ESI service automatically publish Parts and BOMs to

SAP based on Lifecycle State.• Prevented unchanged components to republish.

Migration & Upgrade

• Windchill ESI ( SAP) 10.1 is migrated and upgrade to 10.2 MO 30.

• All ESI 10.2 MO 30 functional is carried.• All existing ESI customization applied on 10.2 MO 30.• New enhancement and customization done in 10.2 MO 30.• New version of Tibco and Adapters are used which provided by

PTC.

3rd Phase Go-Live

June 28th 2015is

3rd Phase 10.2MO30

Go-Live