Oracle Agile PLM
SYSTIME’s Agile PLM solutions for JD Edwards, powered by PIP
Leveraging its world-leading expertise in JD Edwards, matured over 17 years, SYSTIME partnered with Oracle to develop the path-breaking Agile PLM Design-to-Release Process Integration Pack (PIP). PIP enables real-time integration of JD Edwards data with Agile PLM. PIP is based on an open, standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA) designed to deliver seamless synchronization of product content among distributed engineering and manufacturing organizations and the extended product network. With PIP, enterprises need not worry about how efficiently, reliably, seamlessly and quickly data can shared by the two systems. As a Platinum Partner of Oracle and the co-developer of PIP, SYSTIME is the preferred choice for enterprises needing to build an Agile PLM solution to work with a JD Edwards ERP.
SYSTIME’s Agile PLM solutions help businesses accelerate product innovation and introduction, while minimizing risks and disruptions. Leveraging global best practices in supply chain management, our solutions seamlessly integrate people, data, processes and business systems, significantly improving product collaboration and crunching product lifecycle timelines. Our comprehensive approach to planning not only addresses your current operational challenges but also your emerging business needs.
Challenges
SYSTIME has successfully engaged with several companies in the Global Fortune 500, across industries, including high tech, manufacturing, telecommunications/media, automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer business, and life sciences. Our collaborative approach to providing consulting services, combined with our deep industry experience, has helped our clients address their toughest PLM challenges and achieve significant business benefits. Called out below are some of the most common and daunting challenges enterprises face when implementing a PLM solution and how SYSTIME helps overcome them.
Innovating right and at the right time
We live in times when customers consistently reject about two-thirds of new products launched. Enterprises today face an unprecedented level of pressure to continually innovate and develop newer, better products that exceed customer expectations, within very fast timelines. Failing to do so, more often than not, results in loss of revenues and market shares for the enterprise.
SYSTIME’s solution
SYSTIME leverages its PLM consulting expertise to set up / refine / streamline processes that are critical to innovation. When processes (such as ideation management, concept and technology management, product development and validation processes, product manufacturing, and product launch) run smoothly, enterprises improve innovation speeds and successes.
Demonstrated track record: Our product development-related services have helped businesses achieve real and measurable benefits. We have enabled several of our customers to:
- Reduce non-recurring engineering costs by 30% and cycle times by 50%
- Simplify design process information flow and reduce NVA transactions by 70%
- Rebalance development activities with suppliers, decrease costs and cycle times by 50% for critical processes
- Rationalize design specs and reduce supplier test failures by 50%
- Reduce sustaining engineering labor by 60%
- Lower engineering change volume by 70%
- Shorten engineering change cycle time by 80%
- Eliminate up to $6 mn. per year of warranty costs (low-volume program)
Getting internal departments and external partners to collaborate for the same vision
Making a successful product is all about how well internal departments (such as R&D, manufacturing, sourcing and marketing) and external partners (such as suppliers, tool manufacturers and contract manufacturers) interact within and between each other at various stages of the product lifecycle. Lack of a common and shared design vision and lack of collaboration amongst departments and partners are one of the most common reasons for product failure.
SYSTIME’s solution
SYSTIME’s Agile PLM solutions help you integrate global design silos with manufacturing and production teams, both internal and external to your enterprise. This helps in maintaining a single source of design for all the components across the organization, throughout all phases of the product lifecycle. This also promotes the reuse of designs and reduces design costs.
Comprehensive services across the product lifecycle: Our services address challenges in each phase of the product lifecycle from concept to product end-of-life. Our integrated set of services focus on a broad range of strategic and tactical issues, including product development process excellence, product data and lifecycle management, design collaboration and R&D organizational alignment.
Ensuring regulatory compliance, while keeping production costs and times low
Product manufacturers today need to comply with environmental compliance regulations to reduce the amount of hazardous materials contained in new products and to ensure their recyclability at the end of the product lifecycle. Managing compliance requires newer manufacturing techniques, product revisions, etc., which invariably increases production costs and time-to-market.
SYSTIME’s solution
SYSTIME’s Agile PLM solutions not only help you align your new product development to comply with environmental compliance regulations (such as REACH, RoHS, WEEE, ELV) but also ensure that production costs are optimized and time-to-market is minimized.
Finding the right resources to staff the implementation
One of the success factors of a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) initiative is how well it has been planned. Our experience tells us that the kind of people you choose to staff your implementation initiative with have a direct impact on all the outcomes of your investment. Given the wide range of PLM software alternatives, you need a partner with deep domain expertise who can evaluate various options and recommend the best solution.
SYSTIME’s solution
SYSTIME has a team of highly-experienced technical and functional Agile PLM consultants, who ensure that your enterprise derives maximum value from the PLM solution. SYSTIME consulting team helps you develop a robust PLM vision, strategy and long-term roadmap.
Experienced team of professionals: Our global network of specialized resources includes 50+ experienced PLM practitioners and 1000+ business and technology professionals. This pool allows us to extend our capabilities in strategy, processes, information technology, data management and organizational effectiveness, to our customers around the world.
Methodology
When you choose SYSTIME as your implementation partner, our team of experts will leverage best practices refined over 17 years, across hundreds of projects and nearly every industry vertical, to rapidly develop solutions with a high ROI. Our SYS-on-TIMETM methodology ensures all of our engagements are thoroughly assessed, planned, and completed on time and within budget.
Offerings
SYSTIME’s Agile PLM service offerings
With a deep understanding of Oracle’s Agile PLM combined with unmatched consulting and implementation skills, SYSTIME offers end-to-end Agile PLM services.
PLM Strategy, Roadmap & Implementation
Implementation of an Agile PLM solution is an enterprise-wide, strategic initiative and requires processes to be prioritized and targeted to ensure faster ROI. SYSTIME partners with you in charting out a comprehensive and robust PLM strategy, by identifying key pain areas in the current processes and prioritize them to be adopted for effective Agile PLM rollout. We establish KPIs to measure the improvements in the processes in terms of profitability, time-to-market, product costs, etc. Moreover, our consultants provide the complete roadmap of PLM implementation with timelines and milestones for effective tracking.
SYSTIME helps you:
- Define / understand business needs
- Identify and shortlist business process bottlenecks that can be resolved by Oracle Agile PLM
- Compare available Agile PLM’s solution based on technical and functional metrics
- Record the result and suggest the optimal / best custom solution
- Scope out additional investments required for PLM implementation
- Identify applications that can be replaced by PLM
- Drive the adoption of new system processes within the organization
- Interview stakeholders to understand and record current pain points and limitations of the current process and system
- Analyze these pain points to identify root causes
- Weigh the root causes against industry benchmarks
- Prioritize and target key business problems after understanding objectives and their metrics
- Assess the level of maturity for the proposed solution
- Build business cases and recommend the optimal solution
- Convince decision makers to define an implementation roadmap
PLM Data Migration
The Agile PLM rollout is incomplete until data stored in the legacy systems has been transferred to the PLM solution. SYSTIME is the only company in the world, apart from Oracle, to have the expertise and resources to offer data migration services in Agile PLM. SYSTIME’s expertise ensures reliable data migration with zero loss of integrity in the data and zero loss of functionalities between the older version and the new version.
PLM Performance Assessment & Enhancements
Agile PLM applications, like any other IT application, face the issue of performance degradation over a period of time, as the size of the data managed by the application increases. SYSTIME provides consulting services to assess the performance of the PLM implementation, identifying the root causes for the performance degradation and giving appropriate recommendations.
Process Integration Pack
SYSTIME co-developed the design-to-release Process Integration Pack (PIP) with Oracle. PIP connects enterprise product records in Agile PLM with JD Edwards ERP. It is based on an open, standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA) designed to deliver seamless synchronization of product content among distributed engineering and manufacturing organizations and the extended product network. Leveraging Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA), PIP enables you to accelerate time-to-market for new products while reducing cost, improving quality and minimizing supply chain disruptions.
Key Features of PIP:
- Next-generation composite process and solution capabilities that are configurable, extensible and sustainable, allowing customers to leverage current and future investments.
- Pre-built, open standards-based and complete design-to-release flow for new product releases.
- Seamless, cross-application execution of the change management process, releasing product design updates to manufacturing.
- Configurable, extensible, bi-directional synchronization of engineering and supply chain information between PLM and manufacturing for greater visibility, without the need for recoding and with protection of changes across upgrades.
- User-friendly configuration that allows both business and IT users to easily define and manage value maps for the key elements important to them.
- A robust process monitoring, error handling and configurable notification management framework to help minimize impact on transfer process, product quality, cost and time-to-market.
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