By the end of the year, all of fast-growing Baan International BV’s revenue will come from sales of customized versions of its Triton 4.0 manufacturing suite into four vertical markets. Yesterday the company added complex manufacturing arrangements of its suite to those it already sells for the automotive and electronics industries. Complex manufacturing users – heavy equipment and project services supply chains – can now buy tailored software and pre-defined models which support their dependence on engineer-to-order environments. Products tailored for the supply chain industries, including primary metals, pulp and paper, plastics and food and beverage, will be added by year- end. Baan will use its new OrgWare services to create other customized Triton modules in future. It’s still working on support for NT, Sybase and DB2. It’s using its Berclain Group Inc acquisition’s Moopi software to add scheduling and synchronization to all of its products. Moopi – a French acronym for Industrial Production Sequencing Optimizing Method – is a three-tier C++ environment. Baan claims 1,700 customers.
