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Bill of Materials Management

Manage and control product definition throughout the lifecycle.

Turning a product into profitable reality is not easy. It requires coordinating the efforts of many to meet a common goal.

Your company is challenged to coordinate the deliverables from the various groups involved in bringing products to market, encompassing product offerings, systems, assemblies and basic parts, and manufacture.

With increasingly complex products, shorter lead times, and more advanced and varied product offerings, it is progressively more difficult to maintain the accuracy of your bill of materials (BOM) information. You are challenged to manage engineering change across configurations, synchronize downstream BOMs, and extend BOM changes across variants. This leaves your company struggling to improve your quality and time to market, while reducing development, manufacturing and product lifecycle costs in order to remain competitive.

Bill of materials management is a critical part of the design and manufacture of any product. If you work for a leading company, you understand this and are, on average, two-times more likely to leverage centralized product data to improve control of product configurations. You can provide tailored visibility to central product information by role, and extend configuration management beyond the BOM to include a richer product definition.

The results speak for themselves. Leading companies are more able to hit product development and lifecycle targets that drive product profitability, on average, 89% or more of the time, versus a 30% to 40% of the time for laggards.

Teamcenter manages product complexity and variability

Teamcenter allows you to effectively manage essential product definition beyond design and engineering, throughout the product lifecycle. Teamcenter provides a single source of structured product and process information enabling every user to derive the right BOM information relevant to their needs. Coupled with powerful capabilities to manage product complexity and variability, you can more easily manage product offerings, platforms and options.

By managing the various configurations of your BOMs, you can hit your product development targets twice as often as your poorer performing competitors.

Key Capabilities and Benefits

Solution Capabilities

• Product configuration and enterprise BOM management
• Process-specific data structure and data management
• Lifecycle representation management
• Context management
• Open application and system integrations

Business Results

• More effectively manage development and manufacturing costs
• Provide a richer product definition throughout the lifecycle
• Increase team productivity by removing silos for improved visibility throughout the product lifecycle
• Enhance collaboration among individuals and teams
• Improve business planning by reconciling and aggregating key information

More Information

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• Teamcenter for Bill of Material Management Fact Sheet

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