Overview

Welcome to the ENOVIA V5 VPM CES Engineering Component Reuse User Guide. This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product.

This overview provides the following information:

CES in a Nutshell

The need to control operational efficiencies and improve collaboration across multi-tier organizations has made supply chain management one of the greatest achievements of the 20th Century, and has improved the way that businesses work. ENOVIA V5 VPM's Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing functionality allows you to increase productivity and lower costs by giving you the tools to achieve faster time to market, and by giving your organization an unobstructed view of your supply chain operations. This visibility allows companies to plan and react to changes by opening the door to greater information accessibility such as inventory, orders, shipments, and invoices. This improved visibility to your company's internal supply chain operations will enhance both internal communication as well as communication with customers and suppliers. Improved supply chain collaboration breaks down the barriers that often exist between organizations by enhancing internal forecasting activities, and improving their ability to successfully monitor and manage their operational systems. Such improvements are often reflected in the decision making process by giving companies the edge they need to rapidly react to changing business dynamics.

ENOVIA V5 VPM's CES Engineering Catalog Navigator and CES Engineering Component Reuse play an important role in supply chain management by giving organizations the necessary tools to navigate through part inventory, pricing, supplier information, and part availability.  By combining CES with CATIA, designers and engineers can search their company's specialized CES database for existing parts. Using this internal part information, manufacturer information, supplier information, along with pricing, and visual and geometric comparison, designers and engineers can evaluate the existing parts and decide which part best suits their purpose, instead of creating the part from scratch. The acceptable part can then be instantiated into the current product. Such exposure helps the user to make informed decisions and to take advantage of price breaks and existing inventory, which ultimately cuts cost and increases productivity.

Before Reading this Guide

You may also want to read the following related product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:

  • CES Engineering Catalog Navigator

  • CES Enterprise Catalog Administration

  • Infrastructure User's Guide (CATIA documentation)

  • Part Design User's Guide Version 5 (CATIA documentation)

  • Product Structure User's Guide Version 5 (CATIA documentation)
     

This book is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar with the CES Version 5 workbench. The user should be familiar with basic CATIA Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step Getting Started scenarios. These scenarios will show you how to log in to CES, how to log in to ENOVIA V5 VPM, and orient you on the layout of CES.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section, which deals with handling all the product functions.

Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information.

Conventions Used in this Guide

To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, refer to the Conventions section.