The Application Layer consists of the sum of the application modules (apps) that are installed under the license agreement with a customer to supply the interface tasks between SAP© and MES systems.
The modules are designed to support the underlying business processes, that run between the systems involved with distributed roles, as good as possible.
Thus, the modules take on many tasks, that would otherwise require time-consuming interventions of human experts.
In first place, all Work Line Connect® apps regard the needs of the processes; they are process-oriented.
Common for all applications is:
- data is always up-to-date
changes in the process are available horizontally and vertically at all levels of the process structure. - data is always accurate
information contents and structures are coordinated and adapted - data deviations
deviations in the data communication are embedded in an escalation management
Read more in: The Production Orders - PP/PI