Revolutionizing global BOM development

For most electronics and high tech companies, the bill-of-materials (BOM) is the central hub of product definition activities. It conveys the information needed by various departments, such as Engineering, Procurement and Manufacturing, to get the product built. However, current BOM development processes are not well-suited to today’s realities.

Companies struggle in their attempts to efficiently design and configure products with multiple options to meet the requirements of various market segments. These product options represent an increasingly complex, interconnected web of hardware and software features. To get these product options right, companies must expend massive, manual effort. For starters, multi-discipline, geographically dispersed product development teams must be constantly coordinated to define these options. At the same time, traceability must be maintained to a consistent set of requirements. Trying to do this with today’s manual processes results in:

• Blown timelines
• Poor-selling products 
• High costs

There is a better way: a revolutionary Product Development System that synchronizes system requirements, multiple design disciplines, and internal systems to provide a single definition of a product–‘a single source of truth’–throughout the product development process. With a Product Development
System, companies can greatly improve the quality of their bill-of-material (BOM) information, incorporate more sophisticated product options, and improve their operational efficiency.

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