ERP Group to Develop Supply Chain Software Standards
By Staff -- Logistics Management, 10/1/1998
The Open Applications Group (OAG), an association of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors and users, plans to begin creating standards for interfaces between ERP and supply chain software. At present, programmers have to write custom interfaces to enable information to be exchanged between business applications made by different companies.
In the past, the OAG has developed specifications that describe data formats for ERP software products. For instance, the group has set standards that allow information to be exchanged between a human-resources module in one company's ERP software and another company's finance module.
Interfaces between supply chain and ERP software will become one of OAG's main focuses in the coming year, says OAG Chairman George Siegle, who works as director of advance development in IBM's Manufacturing Industry Group. OAG would develop Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which allow information to be exchanged between different pieces of software. OAG President David Connelly says OAG will work first on interfaces for advance planning and scheduling applications, a type of supply chain software.
In this regard, Siegle says OAG has begun discussions with the Supply Chain Council (SCC) about the possibility of working with that organization on standards development. "We are using [the Supply Chain Council's] SCORE nomenclature and [the SCC is] interested in what we're doing," says Siegle. "We are discussing what the relationship should be between the organizations."
The OAG numbers among its members such leading ERP vendors as SAP and Oracle. The Supply Chain Council was formed in 1996 to construct a reference model for benchmarking supply chain performance across a range of industries.
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