Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

• Organisational Strategy
• Need for structural change
• IT tools
• Increased integration (rather than point
  solutions)
• Provide targeted tools for SCM at various stages
  in the life cycle of products
• SCM is initially geared for planning / execution
  with existing products
• Not sensitive to life cycle
• Volvo to enable better global coordination in
  manufacturing process planning.

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SAP web site

• Bring products to market quicker with better
  designs
• Postponement , more resilient etc
• Support collaboration between
• Internally marketing and sales, planning and
  production, procurement, and maintenance
• Externally partners, suppliers, contract
  manufacturers, service providers -- even
  customers
• Allow the management of new assets, environment,
  health, and safety requirements
• Allow integration between mysapERP, mysapSRM,
  mysapCRM and mysapCRM!

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Components

• Specification data sheets
• Document management
• Structured repositories
• Complex authorization system
• Partner work areas
• Eg suppliers (for bidding stages)
• Workflow and status management
• Connection to backend systems (BOMs, suppliers
  files, asset registers etc)

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PLM Stages

• Plan
• Define
• Build
• Support
• .
• Imagine this in the context of a portfolio
  approach
• different products at different stages
• Different information needs
• Different partners / emphasis
• Imagine the IP problems too.

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Plan Innovate and spec.

• Up to 80 of product costs are determined in the
  very early stages of life cycle
• Collaboration tool for multinational projects
• Bring stakeholders at an earlier stage
• Cost saving adjustments
• Investigation of variants
• Exit strategy
• Increase speed of development
• Reduce unnecessary changes during product life
  cycle
• Allow asynchronous work and ensure security of
  data
• Support global development teams

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Define Develop and Validate

• Computer aided design
• Common repository of customer requirements
• Real time validation / compliance
• Simulation of performance
• Enormous reduction in cost in comparison with
  physical prototyping
• Computer aided development of production tooling
• Optimised routings
• Accurate projects of cost per unit

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Build Produce and deliver

• Translation of design of solution into
  manufacturing execution (traditionally
  disconnected)
• Less structured task because more dynamic and
  diverse
• Many competences (quality validation, process
  improvement, plant design, resource management
  etc..)
• Greater continuity, collaboration and cohesion in
  the on-going improvement of products

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Support Service and Sustain

• Close the loop
• Connect front line staff with early planners
• Communicate new/changed requirements
• Check if predictions are true
• Learn for next release / new products
• Involve all partners in process
• Manage a complete portfolio of products
• Knowledge management across sites, competences
  and across systems (ERP, SCM and CRM)