Manufacturing runs on integrations no other vertical sees: OPC UA from
PLCs, MES orchestrating production, SAP S/4HANA running
finance, and X12 / EDIFACT moving 850s and 856s between
you and Tier-1 customers. Art2link is the platform that connects all of it —
plant by plant, partner by partner, without modernizing your core systems first.
PLCs on the floor are from the 90s. MES was installed in the 2010s. ERP just moved to the cloud. They all have to talk to each other every shift.
Tier-1 OEMs each publish their own EDI implementation guide. Walmart 856 differs from Target 856 differs from Toyota DELFOR. Your map matrix is your competitive cost.
Two plants in the same company run different MES vendors, different SCADA setups, sometimes different ERPs after acquisitions. Standardization is a 10-year journey.
FDA, FAA, ITAR, automotive recall regulations — full lot/serial traceability across the entire production network is mandatory in most categories.
A representative production order moving from customer EDI through scheduling, execution, quality, packing, and shipment. Every transition is a different system; every event is captured under one correlation ID for traceability and recall readiness.
Tier-1 customer sends 850 over AS2 with MDN. Art2link validates against partner-specific implementation guide, generates 997 functional ack within 15 minutes.
Art2link routes the parsed EDI into SAP PP via IDoc. Planning run schedules against capacity, material availability is checked against the warehouse, BOM explosion completes.
SAP releases the production order down to the MES via Art2link, which translates the SAP IDoc into ISA-95 B2MML format. MES schedules work centers, prints traveler, queues operator instructions.
First-piece runs through dimensional inspection on the CMM. Results post via OPC UA to the quality system. Art2link aggregates the inspection record against the production order ID for the traceability bundle.
6,000 units complete, 14 scrap, 23 rework. Art2link routes the production confirmation back into SAP and stamps each serial against the lot for downstream recall traceability.
Pallets packed to customer-specific configuration. SSCC labels generated per pallet via the WMS, correlated to serial numbers, ready for the 856 ASN.
856 ASN with full hierarchical loop (shipment / order / pack / item / serial) generated from the production + packing data and sent to the customer over AS2. MDN received within 8 minutes.
810 Invoice routed to customer. Complete traceability bundle (raw material lots, machine telemetry, inspection records, serials, ASN) archived to WORM storage with 7-year retention for recall + audit.
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One query in the operator UI surfaces every event from the 850 receipt through the
810 invoice — including every machine reading, every quality sample, and every
serial. This is what a recall request looks like resolved in 3 minutes instead of 3 weeks.
Art2link runs in your Azure subscription — production data, machine telemetry, and trading-partner records never leave your tenant. Audit retention is configurable per integration (7 years typical, longer for aerospace/defense). Customer-specific auditor read-only access supported.
X12 (850/855/856/810/820) and EDIFACT (ORDERS/DESADV/INVOIC) for Tier-1 customer and supplier integration.
Read more → PrimaryShop floor ↔ MES ↔ ERP. OPC UA for the OT layer, IDoc/BAPI for SAP, REST/OData for cloud systems.
Read more → If on BizTalkMany manufacturers still run BizTalk for EDI and ERP integration. Migration path off, no rewrite.
Read more → CommonPartner self-service portals, supplier APIs, IIoT data ingestion endpoints.
Read more →A Tier-1 automotive component supplier consolidated EDI integrations with 47 OEMs and SAP S/4HANA integration across 9 plants onto Art2link — reducing partner-specific map maintenance from 3 FTEs to 0.5.
A specialty chemical manufacturer replaced 14 point-to-point integrations between OSIsoft PI, MES, and SAP — cutting lot-traceability query time from 2 days to under 5 minutes for FDA recall readiness.
30 minutes with a senior architect who has shipped in manufacturing. Bring one of your live EDI partners or MES-to-ERP flows; leave with a tailored reference architecture.