Advance PLM Software Soutions for Compex Business Processes Abstract As customers word-wide camour for more technoogicay rich products, be it a car, or a smartphone, manufacturers are having to contend with more compexities whie peasing their customers and staying abreast of competition. Right from conceptuaization to design to manufacturing to distribution to aftersaes to end-of-ife, the pressure is aways on the manufacturer to deiver products to match the customers ever changing needs. This need for innovation couped with the mounting compexities that new technoogies bring with them, the need for highy customized and individuaised products, the quick time to market pressures, etc., are making manufacturers work with a arge and perpetuay expanding suppy and distribution chain. These suppy chains are often disparate and diverse and spread across geographies and cutures, so working in coaboration with such a wide network can aso take a to on the aready tough task ahead. For exampe, in the fina phase of an automobie assemby, over 4000 parts are brought from severa suppiers and part manufacturers from various geographies for the fina assemby, where it takes an average of 30 hours to assembe one singe car (Arvidson). Assemby is just one part of the whoe process, every part manufacturer has numerous processes to foow before his individua part is tried and tested for the next phase (Automobie). The tota time taken for assemby of a Boeing-777 is approximatey 83 days (Brown, 2012). This paper expores, through a case study, how the most compex and critica of business processes can be brought under one roof, figurativey speaking, using PLM, which not ony heps that manufacturer to take his product to his end customer faster but aso at increased efficiencies and ower costs. 1. Product Lifecyce Management Copyright PROLIM Goba Corporation
Contents Abstract 1 Introduction - How Compex Business Processes Function? 3 Case Study: A Goba Consumer Goods business 3 Soution: How did PLM Hep? 4 Key Observations 5 References 6 About the Company 7 Copyright PROLIM Goba Corporation
Introduction - How Compex Business Processes Function? Businesses are constanty ooking at making their operationa and manufacturing processes more agie and scaabe, so that they are not ony avaiabe and accessibe on demand and across the organization but aso hep them to expedite their go-to-market and increase their core efficiencies. The need to deiver the product faster is making businesses re-examine their deveopment cyces as we as their suppy chains and create a ogica and simpified pipeine that connects a the dots (A strong ever for fexibiity and growth). Be it a manufacturing unit, a IT firm or a packaged goods industry, they a depend on the strength of their processes, the data and their resources, but given the fact that a business have gone goba today, a resources, teams, source geographies and distribution networks are spread out, which makes it difficut for the company to cater to their customer s needs in a timey manner. This naturay pushes innovation out of reach as we. Case Study: A Goba Consumer Goods business A arge consumer goods company has a presence across the gobe and has a diversified portfoio of 17 different businesses ranging from home products to appares to branded abes to fashion products to eectronics and home appiances. The biggest chaenge that they are facing is the fact that each of these is equay profitabe and hence requires them to concentrate on the minutest aspect of each business process right from design, sourcing, production, testing, marketing, saes, after saes and end-of-ife, that too independenty. They need to remain in cose communication with not ony the end customer for each product, but aso with the disparate teams working on each of them, the parts/materias suppiers, the distributors, the marketing teams, the engineers, the manufacturing pant, the testers, the icensors and a the others who are invoved cosey in taking the product to the market. They wanted to ramp up production and start manufacturing in buk, however they were faced with severa chaenges (Reducing time to market by unifying business processes): Lack of contro on the individua teams and processes that were spread across geographies Lack of a common poo of data/information that coud enhance coaborative working Lack of a centraized and standardized source of process workfows Lack of transparency and visibiity into management of the sampes and prototyping Lack of propery charted out compiance and country-wise reguatory norms with no point of contact who ensured that the compiances were being met Outsourced quaity testing which again indicated a proper ack of contro Lack of information on materias and processes avaiabiity to buid buk manufacturing capabiity Different manufacturing pants functioning in separate sios without much communication to the corporate office 5. Bi Of Materias 6. Computer Aided Designing 7. Product Data Management Copyright PROLIM Goba Corporation
The congomerate was ooking for a resoution that woud not ony hep them in addressing a the above chaenges but woud aso hep in buiding a standardized system that woud remove the need to micro manage severa disparate processes and teams. They aso needed the corporate headquarters to have better visibiity into the working of each individua setup without having to manage every singe detai and step. Soution: How did PLM Hep? The company brought in a team of consutants to understand the existing processes and create a workfow that woud address each of the aforesaid chaenges. The team undertook a study on the existing processes of each and every division aong with the interna and externa teams and created workfows for each. They then identified the commonaities and began to regroup the processes and workfows. Once they charted out a the workfows they mapped them to PLM services from a eading PLM soutions provider and this soution was seamessy merged into the entire infrastructure, communication, data portas and process fows of the organization. The organization managed to get a of its processes and teams onto one common patform which heped them to communicate easiy and work in tandem at a times. The PLM soution heped them: Create a common business process by restructuring the existing ones across a their divisions Remove severa process redundancies by deveoping common workfows for processes with commonaities Seamessy integrate with their on-site, in the coud, and off site systems incuding the existing egacy systems Standardize processes across geographies with easy accessibiity even for the disparate and externa teams Digitize the existing processes incuding BOM 2, compiance checkists, externa suppier/distributor requirements, testing standards, etc. Estabish a proper hierarchy that ceary defined the fow of authority Specify quaity contros Common accessibiity to a sampes that had aready gone through testing and compiance, thereby reducing the need for retesting, which aso ensured that there was company-wide consistency in QA3 Decrease in costs of communication, testing and product ifecyce due to ower redundancies Better coaborative working hence better teamwork Improved process and peope efficiencies due to better visibiity into workfows Adopt technoogies such as virtua designing using CAD4 Buid capabiities in buk manufacturing 2. Bi of Materias 3. Quaity Assurance 4. Computer Aided Design Copyright PROLIM Goba Corporation
Key Observations The company benefitted in severa ways. Not ony did they manage to create a common patform for a their divisions and reduce the need to micro manage, they aso were aso abe to buid better teamwork, better communication, better transparency, which heped them reduce operationa costs and utimatey improve their time to market as we. The reduction in redundancies heped them optimise their resources and shorten their deveopment cyces and gain better contro over a the phases of deveopment right from conceptuaization and strategy to end-of-ife. Copyright PROLIM Goba Corporation
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About PROLIM: PROLIM is a eading provider PLM Software Services to industries ike Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing Suppier and Life Sciences. Providing these services has heped the cients to enhance efficiency and top-ine growth As one of the fastest growing private Companies in America recognized by Inc 500, PROLIM being customer focused rather than product focused, the company envisions harnessing customer requisites by adding more sateite offices over the next few years in major metropoitan centers PROLIM envisages reaching customers beyond borders to deiver effective services in the west and east coasts of the US Canada and Europe and Asia. US OFFICE DALLAS PROLIM Goba Corporation 2805 N. Daas Parkway, Suite 610 Pano, TX 75093 Phone: 214-945-2667 US OFFICE DETROIT PROLIM Goba Corporation 30445 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 380 Farmington His, MI 48334 Phone: 248-522-2575 CANADA OFFICE PROLIM Canada Inc 4611 Rosebush Road, Mississauga L5M 5H2, Canada Phone: 416-220-2892 INDIA OFFICE PROLIM Soutions Pvt. Ltd. Word Trade Center 20th Foor, Maeswaram, Bangaore 560055 Phone: +91 80-41637666 Copyright PROLIM Goba Corporation