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Supply Chain Management Review staff -- Supply Chain Management Review, 3/2/2007
"Do you need PLM?" asks AMR Research Analyst Kevin O’Marah in "The Business Case for PLM." To help readers answer that question, the column lists ten diagnostic questions, including
1) Do you take orders for product configurations that you can’t make?
2) Is time to market a top strategic concern?
3) Are bad product development projects hard to kill?
Once you have determined whether or not PLM tools would be helpful for your company, O’Marah also suggests three things to look at when building your business case: infrastructure savings, improvements in operating metrics, and strategic competitiveness impacts.
To ensure a profitable product, supply chain professionals must be involved in the earliest stages of new product introduction, writes AMR Analyst Michael Burkett in "Design for Supply: An Evolutionary Path." If supply chain professionals are involved, they can drive down supply chain complexity, decrease direct material costs, and keep part numbers and suppliers from proliferating.
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