{"id":622,"date":"2017-10-06T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-Opcenter-Blog\/Should-Your-MES-be-PLM-centric-or-ERP-centric\/ba-p\/437729"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:03:10","slug":"should-your-mes-be-plm-centric-or-erp-centric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/should-your-mes-be-plm-centric-or-erp-centric\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Your MES be PLM-centric or ERP-centric?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The architecture of your manufacturing systems should be guided by your manufacturing process. Complex engineer-to-order processes, with multiple manufacturing orders coming from PLM, have different requirements than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/our-story\/glossary\/what-is-make-to-stock-mts\/100404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make-to-stock<\/a> processes, where an ERP may be generating the manufacturing order. The system that translates orders and designs into physical products on the shop floor \u2013 the MES \u2013 should be built with the process in mind.<\/p>\n<p>The question is \u2013 what will your process look like in the future? Even as mechatronic products become more customized as they cater to consumer preferences, manufacturing will continue to move toward the configure\/engineer end of the process spectrum. Considering the significant investment required to implement systems and the difficulty in replacing them, today\u2019s manufacturing leaders are taking a hard look at how their MES systems are designed. Read the whitepaper, <strong>MES users face a critical choice: PLM or ERP<\/strong>, to learn more: <a title=\"MES Critical Choice MESA\" href=\"https:\/\/mesainternational.lpages.co\/mescriticalchoice\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/mesainternational.lpages.co\/mescriticalchoice\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architecture of your manufacturing systems should be guided by your manufacturing process. Complex engineer-to-order processes, with multiple manufacturing orders coming from PLM, have different &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35697,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[287],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[2336],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manufacturing-operations-management-mom"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/helloquence-61189.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/opcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}