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[April 2015] To quote Tom Shoemaker, VP of Product Marketing at PTC, “PLM (product lifecycle management) is to your intellectual property what ERP (enterprise resource planning) is to your physical property. In other words, PLM focuses on the planning before you commit to making a product, and ERP takes over from there.”
PLM and ERP systems are designed to use data effectively to allow manufacturers to make smart business decisions and streamline processes throughout product lifecycles, from design and production to logistics and sales. In an increasingly competitive global market, companies looking to drive greater manufacturing success need a more organized workflow and real-time access to accurate data throughout an enterprise.
PLM/ERP integration is critical to ensuring the technology, processes and experts in product design and manufacturing align in order to meet unified business goals. However, the disconnect between ERP and PLM can hinder a company’s competitive edge by causing challenges such as production delays or errors due to mismanaged BOMs and inventory, or the inability to make quick, sound business decisions based on inaccurate ERP data. These data discrepancies between ERP and PLM can often make the systems appear to be more of a problem than a solution.
CuroGens PLMbridge for Microsoft Dynamics AX is an integration solution that bridges the information gap between the PLM/PDM system of a manufacturing company and its ERP platform. The business solution allows an OEM to easily exchange Bills of Material (BOM) data between its PLM application and Dynamics in order to better manage the BOM, reduce risk of errors associated with manual data entry and make the discrete manufacturing process efficient and repeatable.
By bridging the gap between PLM and ERP systems, PLMbridge increases efficiencies, improves production processes, reduces redundancies and provides a solid, data-based foundation for effective product management. A more productive enterprise achieves time-to-market goals and project cost reductions, and can better allocate resources to focus on improving innovation.
Is your industrial equipment manufacturing company currently facing obstacles to communication, collaboration or innovation due to discrepancies between PLM and ERP systems? Our latest solution brief walks you through how PLMbridge can help you overcome common barriers to manufacturing success. For additional information or a free demo, contact learnmore@curogens.com or call +1 317-815-8120.
