manroland subsidiary ppiMedia has scored its first Singaporean customer, commissioning integrated production planning at multimedia publisher MediaCorp.

The company’s PlanPag newspaper production planning software is used for daily newspaper ‘Today’ and has been integrated with the Atex Prestige editorial system and SAP’s IS-M/AM ad management system.

The new workflow started with the implementation of the ad management system and an update of Prestige. With trhe ppi product as its central planning system, MediaCorp now creates the page plans for Singapore’s second largest daily newspaper and then forwards them to the editorial system using standardised interfaces.

IS-M/AM is integrated in finance and controlling modules from the SAP ERP family, and ppi was able to provide extensive know-how on the system from more than 50 reference installations at news publishers worldwide. Atex Prestige is integrated based on XML standards, again something the German software company has experience of with more than 100 installations with various editorial systems at newspapers worldwide.

MediaCorp’s platforms span television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, digital and out-of-home media. A pioneer of Singapore’s broadcasting industry – starting with radio in 1936 and television in 1963 – MediaCorp has over 50 products and brands in four languages (English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil) every week.