Advanco and SAP are collaborating in the healthcare sector:
e-Pedigree and serialization on the product and handling unit level. The centralized system aims to trace every single item by receiving data from every single point. 


Partnership Contract signed with Siemens
Holger SCHÖNHERR, Head of Competence Center RFID of Siemens Industry Automation: “Together with our partner Advanco, we are able to offer complete solutions in specific fields of application.”


ARC™ - The Integration Software
ARC™ (Advanco RFID Controller) is a device controlling software designed to enable intelligent integration of RFID solutions. ARC is SAP AII certified.

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- 18 December 2008 - Nexans and Messer: why they are satisfied clients

- 27 October 2008 - Advanco Türkiye has opened in Istanbul!

- 12 June 2008 - Siemens has certified Advanco as RFID Expert Partner at the Headquarters Level

- 8 April 2008 - RFID Demo with Angela Merkel on the CeBIT Fair 2008




18 December 2008 - Nexans and Messer: why they are satisfied clients

1. NEXANS, a long-time client, states its great satisfaction with Advanco’s work

Claude Zbinden, the former IT Director of Nexans Switzerland, expressed his feelings after more than 10 years of collaboration between Nexans and Advanco: ‘I wanted to thank Advanco for the good and productive collaboration we had. It has always been a great pleasure working with you and your staff, both because of your professional and human qualities’.

Nexans manufactures copper and optical fibre cable products for infrastructure, construction industry and markets. Advanco is the provider of a complete Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) solution for both Cortaillod and Breitenbach sites in Switzerland. 10 years of our services were based on confidence and professionalism. Olivier Favre, who is in charge of the project, added: Today Nexans Switzerland has achieved the highest benefits that can be obtained from a MES tool connected to SAP as well as to Ortems Manufacturing Planning’.
We wish Claude Zbinden - who is retiring - the best for his new 'carrier' as a golf coach. We also thank him for his capacity to create a long-term strategic partnership between suppliers and his company.

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MESSER’s experience with Advanco

Messer is one of the top providers and suppliers of industrial gas. The project BABEL (Business Accelerator by European Labelling) deals with the tracking and tracing of gas tubes. The aim is the continuous improvement of the flow between the field and Messer's clients. Advanco’s project includes SAP and Inventory Management systems. Victor Riga, its IT director, expressed his great satisfaction, both with the services and solutions regarding the Track and Trace of Gas Tubes delivered by Advanco.


3. Best wishes

Advanco thanks you for your support and wishes you a Happy New Year 2009.





27 October 2008 - Advanco Türkiye has opened in Istanbul!

Overview:

  1. Opening of ‘Advanco Türkiye’
  2. Advanco and SAP are collaborating

1. Advanco has opened ‘Advanco Türkiye’ in Istanbul

Advanco, while already having successful Belgian and Swiss offices, has opened a local office in Turkey. The office was opened in Istanbul during the Brussels Export Economic Mission on 6th of October, in the presence of the Minister of the Brussels’ Region, Emir Kir.

Turkey has many advantages that Advanco didn’t want to miss, such as its 70 million inhabitants and its young population; its position as a world economic power (ranking as 15th in the world and 6th in Europe); its capacity to modernize and, of course, its economic growth. Turkish companies are also very demanding in terms of technology, for example “track & trace”, “internet of things” and “e-Pedigree”, in which Advanco is specialized.

2. Advanco and SAP are collaborating on e-Pedigree in the Pharmaceutical Industry

While SAP provides vital systems and applications, Advanco provides industry expertise, necessary technical skills and persistent support. Advanco and SAP provide simple but effective systems to automate product tracking and authentication processes enabled by automatic identification technologies. The pharmaceutical area of our e-Pedigree solution allows the serialization of drugs, boxes and pallets. The complete system is based on the regulations of the Ministry of Health of the Turkish Government and also on global standards. Ready to be used Interfaces allow sending data from manufacturers to health organizations. Advanco’s expertise covers the documentation and validation procedures specific to the pharmaceutical applications.

Advanco’s software ARC-PLCM controls and monitors all the packaging lines located at the production site. The system integrates data into the customer’s ERP system. The significant product information can therefore be traced from when it is first made in the factory to when it is finally sold in the pharmacy.

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About e-Pedigree

A drug pedigree is a statement of origin that has records of each prior sale, purchase or trade of a drug, including the date of those transactions and the names and addresses of all parties which have received them. As the product moves down the supply chain, each company is required to pass on all previous e-Pedigree information through serialization. Everything about the finished product is therefore known at the final point of sale.

 




12 June 2008 - Siemens has certified Advanco as RFID Expert Partner at the Headquarters Level

Overview:

  1. Siemens Solution Partner Automation - RFID Technologies
  2. SAP’s Center of Excellence – RFID scenarios at Walldorf, Head Quarters of SA

1. Partnership Contract signed between Siemens A&D and Advanco

Holger SCHÖNHERR, Head of Competence Center RFID of Siemens Industry Automation: “The Siemens expertise is the development and production of world-class RFID components. Together with our partner Advanco, we are able to offer complete solutions in specific fields of application”. The collaboration is based on two key core competencies of Advanco: Solution Integration capabilities and the Device Management Software ARC™. Olgun Yenersoy, CEO and founder of Advanco: ‘Our strategic goal is to fill the gap between SAP solutions and the Automatic Identification devices. The local intelligence between any SCM system and the RFID technologies is crucial for the success of an integrated solution’

Advanco and Siemens have worked together on a Nuclear Waste Container Tracking solution in Belgium. The solution integrated by Advanco is based on Siemens RFID transponder.

2. RFID Scenarios at SAP’s ‘Center of Excellence’ in Walldorf

Center of Excellence Value Prototyping laboratories of SAP are based at Walldorf, Germany, in the Headquarters area of SAP. Martin HIRTLE, Head of CoE Value Prototyping; “Customers are excited about the opportunity to use an ideal lab environment where everything from latest skills, products to technologies and resources are made available within max 5 days at hub locations around the world”. Many RFID enabled scenarios - such as returnable Transport Items, Kanban, Inbound and Outbound - are installed in collaboration between CoE and Advanco. RFID stations utilize Siemens RF600 and Moby D RFID readers and antennas. SAP certified ARC™ software orchestrates all the devices, implements local intelligence, integrates RFID stations into the Automatic Identification Infrastructure module of SAP. Both laboratories, Advanco’s RFID Expertise Center for SAP (RECS) in Brussels and Center of Excellence (CoE) in Walldorf, are providing complementary services for clients.

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About Siemens

Siemens, leading manufacturer of industrial ID systems in Europe, has been developing RFID technology for more than 25 years with more than 300,000 read/write devices installed worldwide. Siemens Industry Automation supplies an extended portfolio of RFID systems for applications in production, logistics and distribution. For these systems a range of transponders are available – from smart labels to reusable transponder.

Internet: www.siemens.com/rfid; Contact: info.rfid@siemens.com

About Advanco

Advanco has played an important role in the innovative use of ‘Automatic Identification’ between people and computer. It has achieved a position of renown in Europe in ‘complete system integration’ for production, logistics and retail execution applications. Advanco is today an expert partner of SAP, Siemens and Microsoft. Twenty five years since its creation, the company is expanding in Europe as the leader of RFID Integration Software developpement and end-to-end system integration.

Contact: Marina Barigand: marina@advanco.com; Internet: www.advanco.com; Tel: +32 2 726.88.00




8 April 2008 - RFID Demo with Angela Merkel on the CeBIT Fair 2008

Overview:

  1. RFID Smart Shelf: innovation chosen by Angela Merkel at CeBIT in Hannover    
  2. Auto ID Device Management Software ARC is certified by SAP

1. The ‘RFID Smart Shelf of the Future’ – developed in collaboration by Advanco, SAP Research and Siemens - has been chosen to be one of the very few innovations visited by the Chancellor Angela Merkel for the opening of CeBIT - European ICT industry’s most important shop window where the industry exhibits its trends and its future - on 4 March 2008. The CEO of SAP Henning Kagermann has shown the demo himself.

The “futuristic” Smart Shelf allows the identification of all the items sitting on a retail shelf. All changes are automatically and immediately detected and communicated to the virtual world. The concept can be used also in manufacturing and logistics where a real-time inventory of a shelf is needed. The local intelligence of the Smart Shelf is implemented in ARC™ which enables real-life movements of the identified objects to be monitored correctly using local intelligence functionalities. ARC™ integrates the information to the SAP system where high level processing and many functions such as the optimisation of retail functions and promotions take place.

 

2. ARC™

Advanco’s RFID Device Mangement Software - fits perfectly into the SAP world. ARC™ is SAP AII certified and enables the integration of all kind of automatic identification devices into SAP landscape. The local intelligence of ARC™ transforms and filters “in real time” all raw data collected by Auto ID devices into valid and usable data to be used by the business processes.

 

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Advanco has played an important role in the innovative use of ‘Automatic Identification’ between people and computer. It has achieved a position of renown in Europe in ‘complete system integration’ for production, logistics and retail execution applications. Advanco is today an expert partner of SAP, Siemens and Microsoft. Twenty five years since its creation, the company is expanding in Europe as the leader of RFID Integration Software developpement and end-to-end system integration.

For questions and contact: Marina Barigand: marina@advanco.com ; Advanco – Rue de la fusée 66, 1130 Brussels, Belgium; Tel: +32 2 726 8800