Companies Team to Deliver the Most Advanced Service Inventory Optimization Solution on the Market

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MCA Solutions today announced that its industry-leading Service Inventory Optimization (SIO) solution is now an SAP-endorsed business solution. The two companies are working closely together to make available the most advanced service parts planning solution on the market.

MCA Solutions’ SIO complements and extends the value of the SAP® Service Parts Planning packages for complex capital equipment manufacturers in asset-intensive industries, including aerospace and defense, industrial equipment and high tech. SIO earned SAP’s seal-of-approval after an extensive evaluation of multiple service parts planning solutions, which included several discussions and analysis with customers and analysts, and a functional and technical review, concluding MCA Solutions has the most comprehensive and complementary offering available.

“We’re very excited to strengthen our partnership with SAP and that our SIO solution is now an SAP-endorsed business solution,” said Bob Salvucci, president and CEO of MCA Solutions. “This recognition reinforces what many industry analysts have been saying for more than a year now – that in SAP solution-based environments, MCA Solutions is the clear and only choice for advanced service parts optimization.”

SAP-endorsed business solutions are complementary to SAP^® software offerings, are developed in accordance with SAP development guidelines and provide additional choices and flexibility for businesses running SAP software. SAP-endorsed business solutions are powered by the SAP NetWeaver^® platform and are offered by SAP partners. MCA Solutions is an SAP Software Partner and a member of SAP’s industry value networks for high tech and aerospace and defense. Its Service Inventory Optimization 6.0 composite application has achieved “SAP xApps™ Certified – Powered by SAP NetWeaver” status. The solution leverages an enterprise services-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) to ensure tight integration and full support at every joint customer site.

“By working with partners such as MCA Solutions, SAP is building an ecosystem to drive co-innovation and further value for customers,” said Zia Yusuf, executive vice president, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP. “Enterprise SOA is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. Solutions such as MCA Solutions’ SIO take advantage of enterprise services and further extend the value of a customer’s IT investments.”

With SAP NetWeaver as a technical foundation, enterprise SOA moves IT architectures to higher levels of adaptability – and moves companies closer to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating Web services to an enterprise level. An enterprise service is typically a series of Web services combined with business logic that can be accessed and used repeatedly to support a particular business process. Aggregating Web services into business-level enterprise services provides a more meaningful foundation for the task of automating enterprise-scale business scenarios.

MCA Solutions’ customers include global service leaders who have seen inventory reductions of 15 to 50 percent while significantly increasing customer service levels and overall service profitability. Current joint customers of SAP and MCA Solutions include Rockwell Collins, the U.S. Navy, KLA-Tencor and Tellabs. The integrated offering delivers the following:

• Pre-tested integration for lower implementation costs
• Tightly integrated planning and execution
• On-going access to best-of-breed product innovation and deep functionality
• Long-term platform stability and SAP-supported integration in product upgrades
• Accelerated time-to-value by reducing implementation time and costs

“MCA Solutions’ SIO is a strong addition to our solution offering, and a great example of our continued commitment to delivering customer value through our partner ecosystem,” said Dieter Haesslein, director of SAP Service and Asset Management at SAP AG. “Leveraging solutions from partners like MCA Solutions enables us to continue to provide the most advanced and complete solutions to our valued customers.”

MCA Solutions continues to excel in all ERP environments, and offers an advanced, stand-alone solution to non-SAP solution-based system environments as well.

To learn more about MCA Solutions and SAP’s integrated offering, please contact your local SAP or MCA Solutions account executive.

About MCA Solutions

MCA Solutions, and its Service Inventory Optimization suite of solutions, helps companies in industries ranging from aerospace and defense and semiconductors to industrial and medical equipment, set new standards for asset utilization and customer support. SIO is a Web-based suite of advanced inventory planning, forecasting and execution solutions that give companies the ability to manage and monitor inventory levels of mission-critical materials. It meets the demanding requirement of the service parts planning process, reduces operating costs and provides global, real-time visibility throughout the extended service supply chain. The first commercial software to optimize assets in a multi-echelon service supply chain network, it supports collaborative planning, forecasting and execution processes by linking with a company's enterprise and customer relationship management systems.

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