• Product Lifecycle Management

    Product Lifecycle Management

    Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a business strategy that has gain wide acceptance across many industries. PLM solutions improve business processes across the product lifecycle from design through manufacturing and sales. Companies who have adopted PLM over the past 10 years confirm the business value of the solution.  Organizations using PLM are benefiting from meaningful cost savings and show significant reductions in new product introduction lead times. Many organizations achieve world-class product innovation practices as a result of their PLM initiatives.

    There are many direct time and cost savings achieved by organizations early on in a multi-year Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution.  Accessing data in minutes instead of hours or days increases personal productivity significantly. The ability to streamline workflow and improve overall operational efficiency has the potential to save significant time and money. Savings are created by enabling seamless collaboration across the enterprise and leveraging information throughout the product lifecycle.   A PLM solution will often deliver the following benefits for an organization like yours.

    • Achieve speed to market through faster product development cycle times
    • Respond to market changes faster and deliver more product innovations
    • Increase sales, product quality, and customer loyalty
    • Reduce cost through elimination of waste and inefficient procedures.

    More importantly, companies often realize longer-term Competitive Advantage benefits after implementing PLM because of improved business performance metrics. These strategic advantages from PLM enable companies to increase market share, profitability, and ultimately increased stock market capitalization.

  • Supply Chain Management

    Supply Chain Management

  • Enterprise Resource Planning

    Enterprise Resource Planning

  • CAD & Product Simulation

    CAD & Product Simulation

Zweave is a management consulting firm which is a leader in helping organizations increase sales, market share and gross margin through product development process excellence.

Services

Product Development Strategy

Product Development Strategy

  • Project Vision and Strategic Objectives
  • Business Case and ROI
  • Project Road Map
  • Program Management
    • Establish Program Management Office
    • Project Management
    • Steering Committee
Solution Requirements

Solution Requirements

  • Business Requirements
  • Functional Requirements
  • Technical Requirements
Software Vendor Selection

Software Vendor Selection

  • PLM Vendor Selection
  • ERP Vendor Selection
  • CAD & Modeling Vendor Selection
  • SCM Vendor Selection
Business Process Improvement

Business Process Improvement

  • Product Development Performance Assessment
  • As-is To-Be Process Mapping
  • Benchmarking & Best Practices
  • Lean Six-Sigma Process Improvement
System Implementation

System Implementation

  • Software Package Configuration
  • Technical Infrastructure Design
  • Data Migration
  • Hosting, Backup & Disaster Recovery
  • Enterprise Application Integration
    • PLM-ERP
    • PLM-SCM
    • PLM-MDM
Organization Change Management

Organization Change Management

  • Change Management Plan
  • Communication Plan
  • Training Plan
  • Custom Instructor Led Training

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Solutions

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Customer Projects

JPEO-CBD is the Joint Services single focal point for research, development, acquisition, fielding and lifecycle support of chemical and biological defense equipment and medical countermeasures.

Joint Program Executive Office-CBD
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GAP, Inc.

The Gap is a global company with fiscal 2003 revenues of $15.9 billion, four  major brands and a global design and sourcing footprint.

GAP, Inc.
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Defense Logistics Agency

DLA is the procurement arm for the services, responsible for sourcing and logistics.

Defense Logistics Agency
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Concept to Market

Concept 2 Market was a case study in how PLM could be used to support the business of an early stage Apparel Sourcing Agent with a small team of users.

Concept to Market
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Digital Prototyping Solutions

dbuck CAD & Product Simulation

Your company is constantly challenged to design innovative and attractive products and bring them to market faster than their competitors. Your product designers need to develop new products that are innovative, functionally appealing, and pleasant to use.  There is a compelling business case at your organization to transition away from old design methods to 3D(...)

March 25, 2013

PLM – ERP Integration

dbuck Package Implementation

Organizations receive significant benefits from the integration of their PLM and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solutions.  Benefits include centralized Materials Management, Vendor Management, Material Costs, BOM Interchange, Inventory visibility, and automatic notifications of inventory levels, design changes, and production delays.

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