Product Portfolio Management
One of Germany’s largest automobile manufacturers uses cplace to bring transparency to its multi-project management.
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Challenge
Up until 2016, the company used to coordinate its schedules and its engineering planning activities across the entire product portfolio using Excel spreadsheets.
As a result, there were always two different planning statuses – a long-term plan and a decision status reflecting current decisions from committees and board meetings. Team members had to take every single change decision for the long-term plan from meeting minutes and transfer them into an Excel document, which resulted in a significant amount of extra manual work.
cplace Solution
A German automobile manufacturer in the premium segment uses cplace for its strategic product portfolio management. The main focus of the application is the company’s production ramp-up management, which coordinates all activities from the first prototype through to series production. The ability to control interdependencies between several production ramp-ups effectively is crucial – letting too many variants of a model enter the market simultaneously should be avoided, while plants, Marketing and Sales should not be overburdened.
In a two-week Rapid Prototyping Project, collaboration Factory developed a solution prototype that reflects all vehicle projects and their interdependencies in a single data model using sophisticated visualizations.
Highlights
Multi-project view in real time
24×7 transparency of the latest planning status
Scenario management
Smart support for selecting the most efficient scenario
Rapid Application Development
Flexible customization of the solution using No-Code, Low-Code and Pro-Code methods