By: Alec Gil
I agree with Bhushan. The design stage cost analysis is (should be) just another iterative engineering activity. In other words, decisions such as make/buy, what materials to use, manufacturing...
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By: olegshilovitsky
Nawal, I agree. In my view, companies want to move more cost-related decisions to engineering. Just because, the majority of manufacturing costs defined there. So, when it comes to purchasing people,...
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Bhushan, Thanks! I agree with you and you emphasized well, that company will get much more flexibility in cost-related decision by integrating ERP/PLM/SRM in a better way. Cost is the main driver here,...
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Alec, Thanks for your comment! How do you see the role of the designer changes when a cost-related decisions move to earlier stages and become integrated in the organization? Do you see any shifts in...
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Good observation regarding cost management is a complex thing – Agile PLM allows to track labour cost and some other cost paramenters to be trackes.Also customers can manage target costing vs actual...
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Prashant, Thanks for your comment. You are right, ERP-people feel they are responsible for “cost” topic. However, costing is a much broader. Because of corp. walls and wars, the solution is not always...
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Oleg, Where I work we maintain very detailed cost information in our PLM system. We pull some cost information from the ERP system such as last price paid, standard cost, transportation cost. We have...
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Andy. Great conclusion! I agree, integration of multiple systems is complicated.. Therefore, chance of ready-to-go product is almost zero. So, you are building it as your own on top of Aras… Thanks! Oleg
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Oleg, Yes, today we are starting to use Aras as our platform for these kinds of tools. For many years we used tools that were built using applications such as PowerBuilder. Aras has a lot more...
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Andy, Thanks for your comments! It is always interesting to read what do you folks doing with Aras. It seems to me dangerous to use Aras as a toolkit for everything you need to do. However, it makes...
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