The customer is an international, market leading specialty plastic and fiber products manufacturer.

The customer had developed over years an extremely comprehensive MES, which is largely regarded as one of the industry’s best systems in its business area. However, the entire system was built on an AS400 (IBM) platform using RPG (migrated from IBM series I) and this was proving to be a major scale barrier to cost effectively cross implement the same system at other plants that needed to upgrade their manual / semi automated shop floor management systems.

Therefore, a completely new MES needed to be designed ground up, using scalable technology providing low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), while retaining in full all the functional scope of the home grown best-of-class solution.

Custom design of software APIs and Classes, including:

	Complex interfaces with customer’s third party ERP system to synchronize customer and item information, order status, Bill of Materials, PICK, SHIP and MORV transactions
	Interface with third party label printing software for dynamic printing