- Enterprise Visibility Into Programs
- Achieve APQP Goals
- Meet Customer Requirements On Time
- Team Management Reporting
- Task Level Visibility Into Program Plan
Product cycle times of 2-4 years, from concept to commercialization inhibits the ability of
manufacturers to change fast enough to meet the demands of an ever-changing market.
To buffer this problem, automotive manufacturers are turning to quality measures like
the Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) process.
The execution and management of APQP and its associated documentation in compliance
with ISO and OEM standards can be cumbersome. This is especially true when a company
attempts to accomplish these goals through the use of homegrown or disconnected
supporting systems.
For example: Many companies struggle with the APQP prescribed design reviews.
These reviews often cause vehicle program delays due to suppliers poorly managing
product related information. Many automotive companies struggle with managing
the sizable amount of paperwork generated by APQP and the associated administrative
costs. Generally, scattered information (often on individual desktop machines and
not in a central, controlled product data vault) leads to poor management visibility
of problem areas that may require risk mitigation and corrective action.
These problems manifest themselves into missed schedule deadlines, and consequently,
increased costs.
In the constant change of today's economic climate, automotive industry manufacturers
must stay agile in responding to market conditions to remain competitive. Equally
important is to reduce product costs and potential risks while improving time to market.
Your new product development and launch programs are the future of your business.
They determine your profitability and affect your reputation for years to come.
Planning, control and communication are the essential ingredients to launching a
quality product on time and profitably. Implementation of APQP into core quality
and business processes is essential to future success and has proven to shorten
cycle times with less risks while improving quality and lowering overall costs.
- Provide a simple, automated overview of all work in hand within the organization throughout all its locations.
- Create program plans, project plans, allocate resources, and define and manage budgets and key milestones.
- Integrate your work plans (the programs) including project plans, departmental plans and personal plans.
- Provide managers of projects, programs and teams with the ability to maintain plans at their own level of detail and for their own area of responsibility.
- Ensure that when changes occur, the plans automatically update other affected plans in your business as the plans are inter-connected in ways that support your natural management processes.
- Ensure there is no need to manually consolidate individual project plans into one large program plan!
Click on our CS-PPLM applications below for more detailed information.
The highlighted modules below apply to the Program Management Function of your business.
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(New Business Opportunity Management) helps you evaluate risk factors, uncertainties, volume, financial outlook, and strategic impact to screen which opportunities deserve your time.
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(Revenue Optimization Management) coordinates your ECR and RFQ activities for maximum profitability and efficiency. Process your quotes for maximum profitability – and do so with reliable information, seamless communication, and consistent business practices.
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(Program Management Planning) streamlines your development pipeline by aligning your customers' requirements to your internal processes. Your APQP process deliverables are synchronized to customer key dates, while customers’ process details and terminology are standardized for your enterprise, eliminating confusion.
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(Collaborative Vendor Sourcing) enables technical, quality, and sourcing approval tracking and management of supplier companies and facilities to ensure that you get the most out of your supply chain.
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(Integrated Financial Forecasting) A comprehensive forecasting database, in concert with tools that allow manipulation of timing and magnitude, provides effective summaries and extremely granular analysis for product managers and manufacturing executives.
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(Program Financial Modeling) provides a single point of analysis and configuration of your product development costs.
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(Collaborative Visualization) facilitates real time communication and collaboration between design and engineering team members, program managers and sales personnel, and customers during the quote, engineering change and program management process.
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