How to Execute Projects Efficiently?
Many companies execute customer orders as projects that contain mass-customised products and components. Although an order contains mass-customised and even fixed products, the delivery as a whole is treated as a project. It is important that all data about a project and its products, starting from the first quotation, are available in the whole organisation.
If customer orders are executed as projects, it is usually impossible to pre-design complete products in the level of detail needed for mass customisation. However, partially mass-customised modules make it easier to implement the deliveries and make it considerably faster to start a new delivery project.
Mass customisation as a part of a project ensures that the initial data is valid and that the project has the best changes to execute efficiently by using as many standard products as possible.
This kind of operation is also suitable for expert organisations that have outsourced a large part of the production and act as turnkey suppliers.
Variantum tools record data about a project already when quotations are being made. This makes all phases of a project more efficient. Instead of an order-delivery process, one can talk about a quotation-delivery project.
Quotation:
- Sales configuration
- Quotation calculation
- Quotation revisions
- Quotation documents
- Separate quotation rounds for subcontracted assemblies
Order - Design - Delivery:
- Production configurator: Structures on the basis of an approved order.
- All documentation on quotations and customer requirements is recorded.
- Design begins from initial data and structures.
- Design adds the necessary structures, items and documents to the structures that have been generated from a quotation.
- Orders can be sent for subcontracted assemblies and access rights for viewing the assemblies can be granted.
- Orders can be generated in VariPDM and sent to ERP.
Service:
- The system records how the delivered products have been modified after delivery.
- The as-built structure and the current structure of a product are always known.
- Products and component in deliveries can be traced.
All this data is generated and managed in VariPDM.
