“At times of peak activity, we are sometimes overwhelmed by the different flows of information.”
“Our teams are very efficient on their own but have a hard time staying synced with each other.”
“Our new product development processes are not agile enough to keep pace with the latest trends.”
“At times of peak activity, we are sometimes overwhelmed by the different flows of information.”
Do you have to double or triple-check the accuracy of marketing briefs by email? Have you spotted an information bottleneck between you and your suppliers? Do most of your marketing and regulatory compliance issues come from using the wrong data?
Data is organizations’ latest strategic asset. We all understand that to be the case now. It consequently seems only natural to seek out ways to exploit the value hidden in data. If you were an academician, would you start a new research in a library where books are stored randomly? The same goes for product data.
You need to build a logical and scalable knowledge base, secure it with a customized set of rules, and grant its users autonomous yet controlled access. Then all users can add, enrich, correct, or consult documentation, or product data, when they need it.
Solution
Consolidate data before manipulating it
Aptean PLM Lascom Edition system means you can centralize, check, structure and make efficient use of all your product and raw material related information, all in a paperless environment. This provides you with a single and sharable version of the truth, to which any stakeholder in your innovation cycle can add. Leveraging data smoothes your whole new product development process and increases its reliability.
“Our teams are very efficient on their own but have a hard time staying synced with each other.”
Do marketing briefs pile up without the available bandwidth to process them? Are quality and regulatory reviews regularly delayed by missing documents? Have all the relevant people added their validation comments to the prototype?
We are sure your new product development processes are unique and a major component of your market successes. Properly defined, applied, and operated processes lay the groundwork for uniting teams around common objectives, missions, and values.
Depending on the size of your business, popular solutions such as Microsoft Excel or Planner may well suffice to meet your data and project management needs. However, if you are aiming to scale up, internationalize or unify your product development operations, you will need more than homebrewed solutions to gain an edge on the competition. You are not a software publisher; we are. You are a manufacturer.
“Our new product development processes are not agile enough to keep pace with the latest trends.”
Have you missed an early market opportunity because of an overextended product development project? Is one particular team overprotective about their project data? How quickly are you able to submit a prototype for a short-notice tender?
Even when your new product development processes are spot-on, they need to match the pace of the market. Otherwise, you will just deliver high-quality products to people who do not want or need them anymore.
Although it is on you to know your market and decide which strategies to follow, the solution you are looking to implement must provide a dynamic response to the changes you want to apply.
Solution
Optimize your NPD processes
The workflow engine is the central hub for internal and external collaborations, driving all the project management functionalities. Using this feature, you can generate your own Gantt charts, access a customizable work environment, monitor all your KPIs to keep projects on track, access the dashboard and reports to optimize your NPD processes, and much more besides.
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New Product Development (NPD):
what our customers say!
"We see implementing Aptean PLM Lascom Edition as an opportunity to forge better practices among our teams regarding data and document management, for instance."
“We are thrilled to have a collaborative software used across all the corporation and allowing product development teams to speak the same language.”
“We found in Lascom from Aptean solution a holistic program able to interact with both manufacturing and technical specifications. It is a precious time saver and error waiver.”
New Product Development (NPD):
what matters
Repository
The PLM technology core element is to provide a unique and central place to manage all product, project and packaging related specifications. This ensures a single version of the truth.
Workflow engine
Aptean PLM Lascom Edition allows you to model your own processes to set up and streamline the entire flow of information.
Project management
Aptean PLM Lascom Edition creates a collaborative and dynamic framework with task assignments, notifications, automated reminders, and milestone alerts.
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