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MEDUSA4 – MED2SAP™

Connecting MEDUSA to mySAP PLM® for integrated data management

MED2SAP allows MEDUSA users to access all relevant mySAP PLM features and processes for quick data management

In order to bring high quality, innovative products to market quickly and efficiently, you need integrated processes and document flows. Your product and design data should be used throughout your business in areas such as sales, planning, pre-production, manufacturing, and order handling, allowing you to communicate effectively across teams in multiple locations, as well as with external partners and suppliers. MED2SAP provides the easy integration of your engineering data with your corporate process flows.

Allowing mySAP PLM to Organise and Manage Your MEDUSA Data
The MED2SAP bi-directional interface was designed to optimise your product development processes by allowing you to assign all MEDUSA data management responsibilities directly to mySAP PLM, seamlessly and securely integrating your MEDUSA sheets into business processes without redundancy. MED2SAP provides an online connection between MEDUSA and mySAP PLM for consistent data management. MED2SAP automates processes previously handled manually: design engineers no longer have to worry about data structures or archiving, version management, or the release and distribution of design data; while mySAP users no longer have to manually add design data to product-related data records. With everything managed by mySAP PLM, designers can spend more time on product development.

The MED2SAP Engineering Control Center
The Engineering Control Center is an easy-to-use graphical user interface with access to all relevant mySAP PLM features and processes for quick data management. This clearly structured tool makes it easy for designers to edit mySAP objects in a context-sensitive environment, availing themselves of powerful functionality, including mySAP’s search tools for quick retrieval and re-use of MEDUSA drawings.

Why use MEDUSA via the mySAP PLM environment?
Seamless integration of MEDUSA drawings into your business processes increases efficiency, productivity and speed to market – it’s your competitive edge:

	Quick, company-wide access to current drawings means reduced retrieval times, more accuracy, and higher productivity.
	Easy access and integration promote standardisation and higher re-use of data, saving time and money
	Controlled local or remote document access, editing, and integration into organised release procedures, reduce errors, confusion and miscommunication
	Real-time collaborative engineering across multiple locations, and the ability to link MEDUSA drawings to other mySAP PLM objects, reduce product development time
	Both systems can be configured for ultimate integration of engineering data, standards and processes to meet your exacting business requirements
	Combined MEDUSA and mySAP expertise - The MED2SAP integration was developed in collaboration with DSC Software AG. This close working relationship between MEDUSA and mySAP experts ensures the continual development of MED2SAP

Technical Highlights

	MED2SAP provides an additional pull-down menu and its own tool tray in the MEDUSA user interface, which allows for easy interaction with mySAP PLM, using standard mySAP dialogs and entry forms
	The Engineering Control Center allows easy manipulation of mySAP objects within selected contexts, and execution of mySAP PLM search functions to quickly retrieve existing drawings
	Management of MEDUSA Drawings: Create, retrieve, open and save MEDUSA drawings – ability to overwrite existing editing states and manage as independent content versions Automatially complete drawing title block with Document Information Record data, such as material suppliers and classification Link drawings with other mySAP objects, such as material supplier data Manage release processes via status networks Show and edit the Document Information Record of MEDUSA drawings Automatically store MEDUSA drawings in neutral data format for EAI viewing (triggered by a mySAP status change – add-on modules ++convert and MEDUSA4 mySAP Site Starter KIT required) Automatically generate and save previews in mySAP storage system Navigate product structure with the mySAP Product Structure Browser
	Use the intuitive Object Manager tool to access all required functions and processes in mySAP PLM, including: Material Master management: Create Material Masters from MEDUSA, with automatic links to the active MEDUSA drawing Automatically or manually link Document Information Records and Material Masters Search for, display, and edit material master data linked to a MEDUSA drawing Use the mySAP PLM classification system Manage revisions, releases and changes Access mySAP PLM Business Workplace

Software Requirements

	MEDUSA 2003 from version 100
	MEDUSA4 version 2.1 and above
	mySAP PLM - SAP from version 4.6 C on the server side - SAP-GUI from version 6.20 on the client side

Platforms Supported

	Windows® XP Professional (SP 2 and 3), Vista Business (SP 1 and 2) and 7 Professional