I am interested in learning if SAP is planning to fully support B2MML (Business to Manufacturing Markup Language) as maintained by WBF (Organization for Production Technology) - now on version v0401? As a SAP (ECC 6.0) user with a large U.S. pharmaceutical company, I'm interested in knowing the progress by SAP of providing a direct interface (particularly for PI_PCS) to MES end systems utilizing the WBF standards for B2MML. Likewise, as my orgnanization is a large user of multiple manufacturing execution systems (MES), I'm curious to learn how SAP's plans for adopting B2MML match up with any MES end system (i.e. Rockwell-Propack). My organization now relies upon SAP's NetWeaver XI to pass data between SAP and our MES systems. While this tool has replaced Mercator for us, we are interested in fully employing B2MML between our SAP and MES systems. Unfortunately, until SAP fully embraces B2MML we are not in a position to ask our MES providers to do the same.
Does anyone know if SAP has shown an interest (or better yet timeline) for making available a B2MML interface? If not, has SAP provided any reason why?
P.S. I'll email the same to SAP and update this thread should I receive any news from them. THANKS!
P.P.S. Yes, first time poster. Hope I haven't abused the forum. I do appreciate the other postings.