MATERIAL SPECIFICATION MANAGEMENT
Walk the
halls of most automotive and industrial companies today
and you will hear the executive directive…
Work together
to maintain design innovation, while creating a competitive
cost basis for execution.
Product Development and Procurement
look at each other and realize – this may be the
first time they have actually met. Possibly it’s
just the first time they’ve met in a manner that
requires more coordination of activities and decisions
- so as not to constrain one another.
If Procurement contracts a sourcing relationship too
early in the process, then Product Development may be
constrained by the specification or design potential
of a material or part. If Product Development designs
in features of materials or parts that can only be supplied
by one or a few sources, then Procurement’s ability
to negotiate price or ensure continuity of supplies
will be limited.
So where are the cost reduction opportunities?
And how do you implement cost reductions without constraining
the creative edge of Product Development?
Challenge
Organize material specifications to drive greater re-use
and effective sourcing of supply.
- Create a single source of information
for detailed material data
- Make it easy for engineers and
procurement to find existing material specifications
- Collect material details from
suppliers through an online process
- Link material content collection
to existing RFx processes
- Monitor material detail (content
and activity) as it impacts regulatory, safety and
other key concerns
- Provide an enhanced drill-down
of the “Bottom of the BOM” for PDM and
PLM solutions
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Solution
Newview’s Material
Specification Management application is focused on materials
that exist at the “Bottom of the Bill of Materials.”
These may include raw materials, fabricated parts (with
high raw material content) and standard components (additional
elements that get lost in the details).
With detailed material data organized into a single
source of information, a company can:
- Reduce direct material costs through
the rationalization of materials to a common set of
specs
- Improve quality across platforms
by re-using consistent materials in a common architecture
- Speed time-to-market by achieving
a greater re-use of existing materials in new designs
- Avoid costly non-compliance
impacts for recyclability, safety and other concerns
Newview’s MSM is the only solution
designed with a full set of processes to manage the
complex environment of raw materials, fabricated parts
and other components that exist at the “Bottom
of the BOM.”
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MATERIAL
SPECIFICATION MANAGEMENT |
| Structured
Repository |
Makes
it easy to configure and add new material types
and their related specification attributes |
| Parametric
Search |
Provides
both quick and detailed searches for fast navigation
to specific materials |
| Comparison
Views |
Analyzes
technical and commercial details of materials to
highlight commonality |
| Commonization
Profiles |
Provides
the logic used as the basis of searches for commonality
between different material specifications |
| Material
Reuse Alerts |
Highlights
similar existing specifications to engineers or
buyers entering new materials |
| Collaborative
Material Management |
Provides
processes and information to manage material and
part attributes, content and cost details collaboratively
between suppliers and users of materials and parts |
| Built
on Newview's Network
Business Process Architecture™ |
For integration of purchase activity and the flexibility
to change strategies quickly |
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