Lösungsübersicht

How automated document distribution

optimizes your business processes

SEAL Systems
The Motivation
The Solution
The Results
Some Extras
Your Benefits
The Company
The Motivation

Shop papers for business processes such as

Purchase Orders

Sales Orders

Maintenance and Work Orders

Production Orders
requires SAP Spool output

and print outs of describing documents

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The Motivation

A typical production procedure for

such shop papers is:

1. Print the business process

report from SAP R/3®

2. Search the describing

documents in your DMS

3. Print the describing

documents

4. Create a sequenced package

5. Distribute the package

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The Motivation

This process is

• Time consuming

 Manual document search

 Interactive printing of documents

 Manual sorting of the documents

• Not secure

 Not all documents are printed

 Wrong Sequence

 Wrong version of a document

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The Solution

1. Implement SAP DMS

2. Load your documents into SAP DMS

3. Link your documents to your business processes

4. Implement the complementary and certified SAP integrations

for document distribution from SEAL Systems

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 The Solution: 1. Implement SAP DMS

Functions Integration in the SAP System

Version management Links to other SAP objects

Document structures Material master
Equipment
Classification
Document Customer
Finding documents info record ........
Vault Engineering change management
Status management Workflow
......
Document distribution
Web access

Interfaces to external systems

CAD systems
Plot management
Archive systems
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 The Solution: 2. Load your documents into SAP DMS

The DMS Loader from SEAL Systems supports fast and

reliable batch loading of documents into SAP DMS

for data migration

with validation

full transparent

very flexible

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 The Solution: 2. Load your documents into SAP DMS

• Direct integration of Office

•Call Office programs as

plug in
•Individual attributes can
be exchanged between
R/3 and the document

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The Solution: 2. Load your documents into SAP DMS

• Direct integration for CAD

– Management of Parts, Assemblies, Drawings and Prcocesses
– Team Collaboration
– Concurrent Engineering
– Data and process management (e.g. automatic BOM creation)

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 The Solution: 2. Load your documents into SAP DMS

• Automatic generation of long term formats (PDF, PDF/A, TIFF)

with application and format converters from SEAL Systems
• Office (WORD, EXCEL, PPT, Visio, Project, Outlook, …)
• CAD (AutoCAD, Inventor, Microstation, Solid Edge, Solid Works, …)

SAP R/3
Standard modules
DMS MM

KPRO PP
KPRO
SD

SAP conversion server SAP conversion server

Applications
Applications Applikations
Applikations
converter
converter converter
converter
DPF
DPF DPF
DPF
44 Format
Format converter
converter 44 Format
Format converter
converter
Convert
Convert Convert
Convert
Stamp
Stamp program
program Stemp
Stemp program
program

Content
Content Content
Content
server
server server
server

Location A Location B

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 The Solution: 3. Link your documents to your business processes

Creation of
structures
(Bill of Materials,
Document BOM’s,
Direct Object
Links,…)

Link the
structures or
objects To your
business objects

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The Solution: 4. Implement the complementary and certified SAP integrations for
document distribution from SEAL Systems

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 The Solution: 4. Implement the complementary and certified SAP integrations for
document distribution from SEAL Systems

1. Document collection

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 The Solution: 4. Implement the complementary and certified SAP integrations for
document distribution from SEAL Systems

1. Document collection

2. Document
distribution

Define the output parameter and print

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 The Solution: 4. Implement the complementary and certified SAP integrations for
document distribution from SEAL Systems

3. Integrate the document collection into the print programs of

the business processes

Select the maintenance order

Select the print function Shop floor papers

Define the
PRToutput parameter
documents and
of the print
operations
Documents of Equipments
Documents
Select the of functional locataions
shop papers

Have a look to the SEAL Systems document list

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The Result

Fully sequenced Shop papers for

business processes such as

Purchase Orders

Sales Orders

Maintenance and Work Orders

Production Orders

With ONE mouse click!

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Some Extras

Soft-Barcode support

Stamping and watermarking

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Some Extras

• Support of all printers and plotters

• Electronic distribution to Fax, E-Mail or Web portal

• Page Numbering

• Banner und Trailing Pages with distribution information

• Automatic saving in SAP for later retrieval

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Your Benefits

• Save money for extra DMS licenses and maintenance (SAP DMS is
for free!)
• Integrate your documents into your business processes
• Save time when creating the shop papers for production,
maintenance, purchase or sales processes
– No manual search of documents anymore
– Automatic batch printed
– Integrated distribution
• Extend the security of your business processes
– The right document at the right time at the right place
– Stamping and watermarking for document control
– Storage of the distribution information in SAP
• Easy to use
– One click
– Banner and trailing pages for easy document distribution
– Electronic distribution instead of paper based distribution
• Create strong and fast ROI
– Short implementation times
– Controlable costs
– High savings

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SEAL Systems AG – The company

• 100 employees, 10 Mio. € turnover

• Locations
– Erlangen, Darmstadt, Hannover, Dortmund (Germany)
– Paris (F), Maryville, Peoria (USA), Melbourne (AU)

• Partner in Benelux, Scandinavia, South Africa, Switzerland

and United Kingdom
• Solutions for
– Printing and distribuition
– Conversion
– Publishing

• 850 Installations in 35 countries

• 400 SAP Integrations
• SAP Certified Software Partner

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SEAL Systems France – Your Contact

SEAL Systems
www.sealsystems.com
info@sealsystems.com
info@sealsystems.de
info@sealsystems.fr

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www.sealsystems.com

Thank you for your

attention!

www.sealsystems.com

© SEAL Systems AG, 2007

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