Structural Concepts Corporation Achieves Enterprise PLM Success
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Aras Innovator Solution Suite
- Epicor ERP
- SolidWorks
技术栈
- Microsoft Windows Server
- SQL Server
- .NET Framework
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
- Revenue Growth
技术
- 功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
- 功能应用 - 产品生命周期管理系统 (PLM)
适用行业
- 食品与饮料
- 零售
适用功能
- 产品研发
- 质量保证
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Structural Concepts Corporation is a US-based company located in Michigan with over 30 years of expertise in designing and building innovative temperature-controlled display cases. The company is a leader in providing foodservice, supermarket, and convenience store operators such as Starbucks, Wal*Mart, Hilton Hotels, and Safeway with specialized products designed to merchandise grab 'n go products, bakery, deli, floral, produce, and other specialty foods and perishables. Structural Concepts achieves a competitive advantage by delivering display case solutions specifically configured to a customer’s unique needs, with the highest level of quality and customer service. The market is highly competitive, and its customers are large companies with stringent demands that include many product requirements. In fact, 80% of Structural Concepts’ orders require customer-specific custom engineering.
挑战
Several years ago, Structural Concepts' growth began to accelerate, causing business processes to experience difficulties. The company was becoming a victim of its own success, with a lack of visibility into ongoing client projects adversely affecting its ability to meet customer deadline commitments. Additionally, the engineering lead time for new orders was increasingly being challenged by competitors. Executives realized the need to transform the engineer-to-order development into a configuration-oriented process based on platforms to streamline the new business proposal estimation, quoting, and engineering required.
解决方案
To address these challenges, Structural Concepts implemented the Aras Innovator® solution suite for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). This included a product configuration proposal process for faster, more accurate quoting, customer requirements and product specification management, new product program management with executive dashboards for the NPDI process, engineering bill of materials (BOM) and product structure for configuration control, document and file control with online change management workflows, and pre-production manufacturing process planning. The solution enabled enterprise-wide collaboration across engineering, marketing, quality, and operations. Structural Concepts now uses the Aras Innovator open-source software solution suite for enterprise PLM to manage the New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) processes, achieving better visibility and shorter development cycle times.
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