As a leading provider of product lifecycle software and digital transformation with expertise in mechanics, electronics and software development, Siemens Digital Industries Software is an innovation and technology leader in industrial automation and digitalization.
SAP is the world's leading provider of enterprise application software and end-to-end supply chain solutions, from product design to operations. Built on a digital platform that offers a fully intelligent enterprise with the world's largest business network.
Through the strategic partnership between Siemens and SAP, they significantly improve the time-to-value. You can also design products with real-time supply chain and create a sustainable product development process and a single digital thread
Both companies, Siemens and SAP, want to use their partnership to better integrate the existing process chains in the future. So far, the connection between Teamcenter and the SAP Business Suite has primarily existed. In the future, the PLM world from Siemens is to be seamlessly integrated into the ERP environment so that the effort involved in the interfaces is significantly reduced. One of these efforts leads to the so-called "pipeline designer" for T4ST. This already enables easy reading, writing and mapping of attributes between the two system worlds. Numerous libraries are available as standard for this purpose.
The combination of T4S and T4ST in a joint S4S merger combine their respective advantages and secure your future potential.
Advantages T4S
✓ Stable and complete solution
✓ Comprehensive customer service
✓ Low implementation effort
✓ Typically, no change of SAP customization needed
Disadvantages T4S
✓ SAP PEO business objects are not supported
✓ SAP public cloud is not supported
Benefits T4ST incl. PLMSI
✓ Supports SAP PEO business objects (Q4/2022)
✓ SAP public cloud read (2023+)
Disadvantages T4ST incl. PLMSI
✓ Brand new solution but with just little field experience
✓ Implementation requires SAP experience
✓ Not yet fully functional
Numerous companies are already using a classic T4S interface. For many, the question arises as to whether the implemented solution is still future-proof or whether it will be replaced in the near future.
So that you can better assess your starting position, we are giving you a few facts. These are primarily aimed at existing Siemens customers:
The roadmap illustrates how up-to-date the S4S interface is and combines the shared vision of Siemens and SAP.