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Background. In today's competitive
environment, manufacturing organizations need to streamline processes
and collaborate efficiently across global value chains. The
manufacturing organizations need to break down operational silos within
their enterprises, manage processes that introduce risk, and focus on
strategies which can rapidly engineer products for the market at lower
costs. A critical factor in meeting these objectives is streamlining
supply chain processes to accelerate and improve decision making.
Objective: For many organizations, integrating sourcing
considerations early on and throughout the product design process is
becoming a business priority. "Designing with supply in mind" reduces
development time and costs, improves product quality, and helps foster
cost-effective design innovation. However, to realize these benefits,
engineers need sourcing data and constraints readily available on their
desktops; sourcing needs accurate 3D product data; and both need access
to the latest enterprise resource information from product concept
through retirement. ENOVIA CES makes sourcing an integral component of
the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system rather than an isolated
function considered after design is completed.
Design for Supply: With ENOVIA CES, engineers can launch
sourcing tools from their desktops, seamlessly connected with
applications that maintain, analyze, and update key supplier data.
Engineers and managers can collaborate in real time with sourcing
specialists as the product matures. As a result, issues are discovered
and handled more efficiently and designs go into production more
rapidly, reducing time to value.
With advanced search capabilities and attribute views on price,
obsolescence, supplier information, and preferred manufacturers,
engineers can quickly locate and validate the right parts to optimize
current designs. Access to this rich sourcing data promotes re-use of
approved and optimized parts, dramatically increasing the quality and
reducing the quantity of managed parts. In addition to facilitating
reuse, ENOVIA CES helps organizations pro-actively monitor and reduce
risk when introducing new parts. Ultimately, ENOVIA CES helps
organizations produce higher-quality products with fewer warranty and
repair issues, especially when proven parts are re-used for new or
updated products.
Supply for Design: Using ENOVIA CES, sourcing can engage in
the early stages of design to proactively supply for products. Armed
with "pre-rank prioritization" lists of suppliers and manufacturers,
engineers can leverage supplier relationships and approved parts to
improve decision making. Users can take critical factors such as price
and lead-time into account as part of the engineering process.
Additionally, they can analyze information as to where and how parts are
being used, and at what cost, to drive business strategies. This
approach gives all stakeholders more and better information to control,
introduce, and manage components within the enterprise and across the
supply chain.
Crossing the Data Divide: A major obstacle to achieving
"design for supply, supply for design" efficiency is the data disconnect
between design and sourcing information and applications. Engineers work
with one system for design and product data, while sourcing uses another
to perform reviews and determine supplier parts. With ENOVIA CES, the
two datasets are integrated into a single environment, eliminating the
need to reconcile data across domains or manage multiple islands of
catalog data.
The ENOVIA CES Enterprise Catalog provides a single master of parts,
accessible from the PLM system and available to all functional groups
and stakeholders. For example, engineers can refer to the master catalog
to perform context-specific searches or comparisons across 3D and
sourcing attributes, then instantiate parts directly into assemblies.
Stakeholders can utilize the approved vendor list or approved part list
to reference and classify components within the catalog, review details
on specific parts, or consider alternatives based on price, materials,
obsolescence, preferred suppliers, and manufacturers. Meanwhile, if
sourcing changes the preferences or pricing, or adds parts, the
information can be shared immediately across systems and users, no
matter how complex or dynamic.
In large manufacturing organizations, where complex family structures
using hundreds of parts are commonplace, management quickly becomes
complicated and optimization almost impossible. ENOVIA CES leverages
proven industry methods and technologies to help customers manage parts
multi-dimensionally across programs, manufacturers, and supplier sites.
For example, a single component can belong to a part family, participate
in multiple programs, be procured and used by multiple sites, and each
use a different supplier and manufacturer. For OEMs and their global
supply chains, the ENOVIA CES Enterprise Catalog combines the sourcing
knowledge and tools to deliver rapid return on their development
investment.
Comprehensive Component Management Process: ENOVIA CES provides a
comprehensive set of management processes to coordinate sourcing
functions across domains and reduce risk. The New Product Introduction
workflow process, for example, helps define a standard process for
introducing new parts into the enterprise catalog. With ENOVIA CES as
the integrated sourcing system for the enterprise, organizations can
build better products at reduced cost, manage compliance and regulatory
issues, leverage offshore sourcing capabilities, and respond quickly and
effectively to competitive challenges.
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