Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - Seradex ERP Solutions

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) allows you to manage your company's products from initial conception to retirement. Improving the efficiency of product development processes it enables companies to make better business decisions and deliver greater value to customers.

Seradex PLM Software facilitates an open, collaborative product development environment. Solution areas include planning, implementation, design, engineering and analysis, manufacturing, service after sales, product data management and collaboration.

Obsolete product development processes. Collaborative road blocks. High development cost. Success rides on assessing your current business practices and altering them to meet projected targets. PLM solutions from Seradex help you spot existing bottlenecks, implement best practices, and boost innovation.

Intense competition. Increased focus on parts reuse. Conflicting design formats. Design is the key to product innovation. Seradex can help facilitate real-time design collaboration, capture and reuse product knowledge, and increase efficiency.

Seradex ERP and PLM

The integrated tools in Seradex to control PLM include:
• Engineering Change Requests, Notices and Orders (ECN / ECO /ECR)
• Easily search for existing parts to reuse
• Evaluate alternate parts to reduce costs
• Track Vendor Performance and Volume to consolidate suppliers
• Using built in Microsoft Office integration - collaborate with internal and external partners
• Using analysis tools analysis make/buy, BOM modularization and eliminate BOM levels
• Using the Product Configurator to create BOM's from product models

Often ECR’s are accompanied by numerous documents that must be forwarded to all members of the approval board. Tracking who has what documents and the status requires numerous email or voicemails. This module makes the process electronic so you don’t have to struggle with paper files.

The Engineering Change Notice Module creates, edits, and prints out ECN Reports. You’ll save time and money because your change process is streamlined and easy to use for you and everyone in your design chain. It will boost productivity of engineers as well as salespeople, production, inventory, and accounting staff members.

Your Business Challenges

• Eliminate Paper
• Improve Time to Market
• Include your Customers and Suppliers in the Process
• Track the impact of an engineering change on the BOM as well as on open work and purchase orders

Implementation of PLM

Besides the excellent functionality provided in Seradex software there are many organizational skills that also need to be developed. These include business process design, end user training and often overcoming resistance to change. Seradex has proven implementation services to help you deal with these issues. To implement a PLM solution using Seradex please contact us for more information.

Seradex PLM solutions provides a cost effective tool that pays for itself very quickly.

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