F&p case studiesProduct Management – Interfaces as consultants
Expert: Christof Wewers
F&P Case STudiesTask
- Reorganize product management collaboration of five business units with supply chain
- Standardize product range change processes
- Making the product information system usable for SC processes through data integration
Industry / Function / Environment / Expert
- Chemistry / Paper
- Consultant
- Group with BUs
Project description
- Clarification of the different requirements / structures of PM in the business units
- Definition of the requirements of both sides at the critical interface to the supply chain
- Clarification of the necessary information flows (content, timing, responsibility)
- Development & coordination of binding, business unit-independent basic processes
- Definition of the data objects required by the supply chain in the product information system
- Implementation of data integration in the processes of ERP, planning and BI systems
- Development of data management rules & implementation of data checks for QA
- Change communication in the product management organizations
Result
- Standardized basic procedures established at the interfaces to the supply chain
- Reduction in time required for coordination during introduction & product range adjustment
- Obsolescence of finished and semi-finished products sustainably reduced
- Data integration from product information system successfully implemented
- High data maintenance discipline: intensive training and systematic quality checks
