Wipro offers comprehensive solutions across the entire product lifecycle, from conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. The Wipro Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) practice enables you to reduce product lifecycle timelines through seamless integration of people, data, processes and business systems.
PLM Readiness Assessment
Organizations spend a lot on implementing IT to enhance their capabilities in various areas like product design and development, manufacturing process, resource planning, asset management, etc.
Wipro provides PLM Readiness Assessment services to check the willingness of an organization to implement PLM to improve its product management capabilities. We offer services to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of existing IT investments, systems and processes used to perform activities in the product lifecycle. The assessment report generated highlights the following areas:
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Additional investments required for PLM implementation |
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Commitment from the top management |
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Applications that can be replaced by PLM |
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Drive within the organization to adopt new system processes |
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The returns on the additional investment |
PLM Strategy & Roadmap
Since the implementation of PLM is an enterprise-wide strategic initiative, it would require prioritization of the processes that are to be targeted, such that the ROI realizations of the investments are faster.
Wipro has expertise in providing services related to PLM strategies by identifying the key pain areas in the current processes and the plan to be adopted for effective PLM rollout. We help establish KPIs to measure the improvements in the processes in terms of profitability, time-to-market, product costs, etc. Our consultants provide the complete roadmap of PLM implementation with timelines and milestones for the customers to track effectively.
PLM Solution Evaluation
Most customers face difficulty in identifying the PLM product that would be the best solution for their organization, without incurring higher costs for implementation and maintenance.
Wipro uses its well-tested product evaluation methodology to evaluate product capability to meet business requirements in various product aspects like scalability, availability of support, cost considerations, etc. Each product is ranked based on its scoring on each parameter and the final recommendations on the product that best suits the current as well as the future needs of the customer. We also help the customers in preparing RFQ, floating it to short-listed vendors and evaluating the RFQ responses to select the best-suited and best-priced solutions.
Accelerated PLM Solution Implementation & Rollout
Most of the PLM implementations run into multi-year development during which the customers do not get any ROIs. Mostly, such long-term PLM implementations face various issues such as, loss of customer focus, inappropriate solutions, etc.
Wipro adopts its successful PLM implementation methodology, which provides continuous ROIs for customers. In the first phase, we create a base framework to implement the key process areas and gain maximum benefit. This helps the end users like designers, product managers and top management to adapt to the new system and reap benefits of improved processes and better data management. Subsequent phases will target other business units and processes thereby improving the enterprise capability to manage product lifecycle. By the end of the final phase, all the product lines and business units of the enterprise would be on board utilizing the seamless data exchange between them and their functions thereby reducing product costs, increasing profitability and generating faster time-to-market.
PLM Migration
Most often, the PLM Solution rollout is not complete until suitable data stored in the legacy systems have been transferred to PLM.
Most often, the PLM Solution rollout is not complete until suitable data stored in the legacy systems have been transferred to PLM.
In addition to data migration, Wipro also provides services to help customers to migrate from an older version of the PLM to a newer version, without loss of integrity in the data or the loss of functionalities.
PLM Performance Assessment & Enhancements
As with any IT solution, PLM applications also face the issue of performance degradation over a period of time, as the size of the data managed by the application increases.
Wipro provides consulting services on assessing the performance of the PLM implementation, identifying the root causes for the performance degradation and providing recommendations to improve the performance of the PLM. Performance of a PLM application degrades over a period due to accumulation of redundant information and phantom objects, bad non-scalable algorithms, incorrect database and application server tuning parameters, networking and hardware issues, etc. Wipro has various tools and utilities to assess the performance and provides recommendations to the client accordingly. We may also help the customer to continuously monitor and refine the application for consistent performance.
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