Over the past 20 years, manufacturing companies have invested billions in ERP and MRP systems to help improve automation and planning for their businesses. However, these systems in isolation aren’t sufficient for a manufacturer to maintain competitive advantage. Today’s business models require extensive integration between ERP systems and a host of other systems and assets, whether they be machine assets on the shop floor, trading partner systems across the extended supply chain, or other applications such as order management, pricing optimization, quality data analysis, and process efficiency.

With its roots in integrating enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle, Mule allows you to integrate your core ERP and MRP systems with any other applications and services using open standards and without the heavyweight bloat of the legacy proprietary middleware. In addition, because of Mule’s lightweight footprint and adaptive architecture, Mule can uniquely be deployed to factory systems, shop-floor assets, and supply-chain partners, whatever the computing or networking constraints might be.

With Mule, manufacturers can improve efficiency, reduce manufacturing defects, gain visibility across the supply chain, and optimize pricing and supply in real-time against demand.

Select Case Studies

• Rockwell Automation, a leading supplier of industrial automation and control systems, uses Mule to integrate its systems with customers’ SAP implementations and other applications.
• A Fortune 100 manufacturing company uses Mule at the heart of its operations process management application, streamlining and integrating functions across the product lifecycle from engineering to the supplier network, production and aftermarket services.
• A market-leading manufacturer of consumer appliances uses Mule at the heart of its architecture, integrating its ERP, warehouse management, IVR and other systems, enabling new channels and helping the company to scale to meet growing demand.