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| Case Study |
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Fortune 100 company leverages product change
management to reduce time-to-market |
Partnering with Patni helped a leading Fortune 100 company improve productivity and facilitate
collaboration among various departments through digitization of the process for managing product change
The Client
The customer is a Fortune 100
company producing equipments
for commercial and military
aircraft.
The Challenge
The client consistently strived to provide the market with leading edge
products. Over the years, it sharpened its focus on efficient management of
its core processes of innovation, product development, and market
exploitation. Being a critical element of product development, the process
for product change management was highly established and extended across
multiple functional units like Engineering, Manufacturing, Spares, Engine
Services and product control board. A few partner organizations also
participated in this process.
However, lack of digitization had an adverse impact on the process run-time.
Moreover, each functional unit had its own stand-alone system to manage its
core operations. The data required for introducing product changes was
dispersed across different departments, which affected the process
efficiency. The paper-based manual procedures for the approval of product
changes further aggravated the process lag. It was evident that the client
needed a solution that digitized the process of product change management
and facilitated the collaboration among the various departments and partner
firms involved in introducing product changes.
The Solution
Patni developed a solution having a centralized repository of data to facilitate
effective monitoring of product changes at regular intervals. The solution had
built in electronic workflow to automate the interaction among all the activities
in the process. The workflow also integrated partners into the process, as
collaboration with partners is important for successful product change
management.
The solution offered rich features of program management and content
management. It also addressed various dimensions of product change like
regulatory compliances, cost, quality, and scheduling of risks. Data
synchronization capabilities of the solution facilitated exchange of data with
disparate systems that were a part of the client's technology infrastructure.
The Technology
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Platform: J2EE |
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PLM: eMatrix 9.6 |
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The Benefits
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Reduced time to market for product changes |
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Ensured collaboration with partners in product change
management |
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Improved productivity across value chain |
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