Kaba Benzing Touch screen Terminal Demonstrates Advanced Time and Labor Data Collection at SAP® Global Custom Development Services

Kaba Benzing today announced that it has installed its B-Net 9580 color VGA touch screen terminal at SAPÒ Global Custom Development Services in Newtown Square, Penn. The B-Net 9580 records personnel, job, machine capacity, stock, quality and maintenance data as well as provides employees with a touch screen kiosk for retrieving and viewing such HR information as schedules, vacation and sick balances.

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Kaba Benzing Touch screen Terminal Demonstrates Advanced Time and Labor Data Collection at SAP® Global Custom Development Services

MIAMI LAKES, FLA. -- January 21, 2003 -- Kaba Benzing, a subsidiary of $690 million Kaba Holding AG and worldwide leader in time and labor management systems, today announced that it has installed its B-Net 9580 color VGA touch screen terminal at SAPÒ Global Custom Development Services in Newtown Square, Penn. The B-Net 9580 records personnel, job, machine capacity, stock, quality and maintenance data as well as provides employees with a touch screen kiosk for retrieving and viewing such HR information as schedules, vacation and sick balances.

SAP Global Custom Development Services provides customers with direct access to SAP developers, partners and business experts with the knowledge and experience to successfully plan and execute high-quality custom development projects that meet the specific needs of individual businesses.

The B-Net 9580 supports a wireless or hardwired Ethernet interface, allowing it to be integrated into existing infrastructures. This Windows-based PC terminal also features a large standard 10.4- or optional 15-inch touch screen display, which effortlessly lets production workers and management interact with the SAP R/3® solution. Work instructions, selection lists such as those needed for cost center changes or unfilled orders, drawings, complete documents or Internet sites are viewed on the graphics display. When used as a kiosk system for employee self-service functions, employees access Intranet information such as vacation time available, submit vacation requests and review and download work instructions.

To make data input easy, the B-NET 9580 is multi-lingual and accepts data from multiple sources. For recording production and labor data, the terminal reads up to two different types of credentials, including visible or IR barcode touch and swipe readers, barcode reading pens, barcode scanners, magnetic stripe cards, LEGIC or HID RFID cards and inductive insertion credentials. Integrated Machine Data Collection functionalities create a connection between machines and people, such as the recording of machine cycles and malfunctions.

We are very pleased to be involved with SAP Global Custom Development Services," emphasizes Michael Register, Kaba-Benzing vice president of business development and marketing. Kaba Benzing is the leading provider of subsystems for time and attendance, production data collection and access control with SAP R/3. More than 700 SAP customers rely on Kaba Benzing solutions."

According to Register, users of SAP solutions have found it is easy to implement and use Kaba Benzings B-COMM for SAP R/3, a communications software that links Kaba Benzing terminals and other hardware data devices to SAP R/3, Releases 3.1 to 4.6. It automates and validates the collection of employee and labor data for entry into SAP solutions, including mySAPÔ Human Resources (mySAP HR, time management), mySAP Product Lifecycle Management (including product planning, plant maintenance and project system), SAP Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) and SAP Employee Self-Service (SAP ESS).

Were always one of the first to certify the integration of B-COMM with SAP solutions in the latest technical environment recommended by SAP," adds Register.

The core of the software is a SAP-certified interface software that helps ensure faultless data exchange between the individual SAP applications and the data collection devices. This interface is kept current with all new SAP technical developments. All data maintenance takes place in the SAP solution.    

About Kaba Benzing
Located in Miami Lakes, Fla., Kaba Benzing is a subsidiary of $690 million Kaba Holding AG and a worldwide leader in time and labor management systems. From touch screen access and shop floor terminals to complex labor costing algorithms and reporting for SAP R/3 and other leading enterprise systems, Kaba Benzing offers an array of time and attendance and production data collection solutions. Kaba Benzing can be contacted in North America at 305-819-4000; website is www.kaba-benzing-usa.com. In Europe and Asia, website address is www.kaba-benzing.com.

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For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of the Kaba Benzing B-Net 9580 terminal, go to www.brighamscully.com and click Photographs/Kaba Benzing.

For more information...
Michael Register
KABA BENZING
305-819-4000, x248
mregister@kbm.kaba.com   

or

Tom Brigham
BRIGHAM SCULLY
818-716-9021
tbrigham@brighamscully.com