"BOM"
PLM vs ERP Tug Of War
BOM Management – Single-BOM, Multi-BOM, Multi-Views. How To Decide?
One of the most frequent debates in the BOM management discipline is around the so-called single-BOM vs multi-BOM approach. My recent article about Single BOM? brought many questions, comments, and discussions around the single vs multi BOM approach, which led me to think about the next article where I want…
BOM Data Management Evolution
Single Bill of Materials (BOM)?
My earlier article How to make BOM integrations easy? raised a lot of debates online and offline. It was quite overwhelming. I appreciate everyone who reached out to talk and share your opinion and experience of managing Bill of Materials, integrating BOMs in different stages of the product lifecycle, and…
How to organize and consolidate siloed BOM?
5 technologies PLM industry needs to support mass customization
Customer preferences changed significantly since Henry Ford invented the Model-T and built a completely vertically integrated manufacturing facility making everything from iron, glass, rubber, and automobile. These days we can see a strong increase in the demand for customer orientation starting from the model, color fashion, and ending up with…
How Siemens and SAP will address BOM Collaboration Across Product Lifecycle?
I’m continuing to explore Siemens and SAP partnership. In my earlier articles, I touched some business aspects of partnerships. You can check my blog – Siemens + SAP = winners, losers, and questions. Each company brings its own strength to this partnership and currently focused on discrete industries. The rumors…
Will SAP and Siemens come on the same BOM?
A little bit more than one month ago, two giant companies, Siemens and SAP announced their partnership to deliver integrated end-to-end software solutions across the product lifecycle, supply chain, and asset management. If you missed my first article about what means the combination of Siemens and SAP software for PLM…