Managing Materials, Beyond Material Compliance

In my previous posts, we’ve discussed material compliance in the context of addressing the U.S. conflict minerals reporting requirements, and also the importance of supplier materials disclosure.&nbs…

3 Ways to Compliance Management with Supplier Material Disclosure

We’ve recently discussed the compliance management imperatives that call on manufacturers to improve the business value associated with product sustainability using PLM, and key ways to improve …

Improving Supplier Collaboration for Faster Time to Market

Think about the high amount of contractual obligations facing aerospace manufacturers today

Link Conflict Minerals and Design for Environment to Organizational Profitability

As an industry leader in manufacturing, you can’t go very far these days without hearing about conflict minerals and the regulations governing them. While complying with conflict minerals requirement…

Supplier Integration: Integrating Direct Materials Sourcing into Your PLM Processes

Without early collaboration, sourcing strategies are limited to “cost containment” techniques such as consolidating suppliers, combining volumes across plants, and developing new suppliers in emerging markets. Cost containment techniques are of course essential, but purchasing must grow past its transactional origins

Getting a Handle on Design Data Exchange and Supplier Program Management

Best-in-Class companies realize that it all starts with how they manage and store their design or CAD data, it must be centralized and managed holistically to provide optimal support for collaborative engineering processes

Supplier Integration: Are Your Suppliers Integrated with Your PLM Processes?

The pressure to get new products to market faster and at the lowest possible cost is driving companies to take whatever measures necessary to meet those demands

Supplier Collaboration: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!

Supplier collaboration and coffee?

Quality Issue Management, PLM and CAPA

Quality issue management matters