Complex product development often takes place in globally distributed value networks. Smooth collaboration across tightly linked supply chains is essential, especially when manufacturing complex products. Highly dynamic processes with ever shorter time-to-market must be managed efficiently – even across company boundaries.
By overcoming IT barriers and breaking down data silos, companies can significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their manufacturer-supplier collaboration. In the past, IT systems were primarily responsible for supporting internal processes. IT support stopped at the corporate boundary. As a result, critical project data was not automatically synchronized across multi-company initiatives, resulting in unpredictable risks, delays, and increased costs.
cplace Cross-Company Planning (CCP) enables tightly networked, collaborative project management within interlinked supply chains. Based on the collaborative project management methodology, cplace provides planning and synchronization modules that allow data to be networked and securely exchanged, with status and progress feedback available at all times.
Increased efficiency
Digitizing the value chain improves processes, reduces costs, and increases competitiveness.
Collaboration
Smooth collaboration and improved real-time information exchange through secure partner and supplier integration.
Collaboration
The networked collaboration of all participants leads to a competitive advantage by accelerating the product development process and reducing the time to market.
Product Highlights
Cross-Company Planning enables the networking of heterogeneous planning worlds of different companies. Individually selectable project information is exchanged ad-hoc and in real time between the participating companies and can be flexibly linked to the company’s planning. Collaborative project planning and control provide the basis for the joint success of all project partners.
Benefits
Collaborative scheduling
The automotive industry’s de facto standard for collaborative schedule management is fully supported, making it easy to manage tighter dependencies and shorter innovation and development cycles.
Transparency
Despite networking, all companies involved in the project remain autonomous, including the provision of information. They decide for themselves what information is made available to which partners at what time.
Control
Collaborative project management is based on dividing the project into manageable units that act as independent, controllable tasks concerning the overall project.
Secure information exchange
Through the targeted exchange of selected information and a security concept geared towards this, the individual interests of all participating companies are safeguarded.
Privacy
Encrypted data transmission and a precise, individually customizable authorization concept meet the highest compliance requirements at all times.
Rapid integration
The cplace CCP-Cloud enables companies without their individual cplace installation to quickly and easily set up cross-company planning and control, supported by the cplace Cross-Company Exchange(CCX) interface technology.
Data extension
Users can combine data types and best practice models with schedule information such as Kanban views, risks, and many more. This allows CCP schedule management to be customized for various use cases.
Integrated
The cplace modular system enables the use of shared project data in the cplace premium application Enterprise Scheduling as well as in other cplace applications.
Diverse methodologies
All participating companies are free to choose their preferred Whether classic, agile, or hybrid, all project management methods are allowed and supported.
Overview
Facts
- Category: Connector
- Developer: collaboration Factory
- Compatibility: cplace 24.1+
Required Licenses
The use of this Connector is subject to license and requires the cplace platform Enterprise.
Whitepaper – Collaborative Project Management
Collaborative Project Management is a paradigm shift. It replaces complex algorithms and relies on the empowerment of all project stakeholders. Identify key challenges and complete projects faster and more successfully.
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