Driving Improved Product Launch and Change While Enabling Broader Process Integration
The cloud keeps the wheels of innovation moving. Inspirage can help your business decide on the correct cloud migration strategy to fit your specific business needs and keep your company innovating. Companies need a partner who understands their goals and will help you leverage the agility and capabilities necessary to be leaders in today’s changing economy.
Our client, a leading bottled water company, understood the importance and advantage of moving their systems to the cloud and identified the transition to cloud-based applications to be the core of their IT strategy. The client appreciated the integrated business processes, data model and user interface capabilities provided by the Oracle Cloud suite. Taking a phased approach in their cloud journey, our client chose to implement Cloud PLM first with future cloud migrations determined by the success of this project. At the start, our client had concerns about their current process, solution and user complexities. One such example was the large number of workflows that needed to be addressed in the solution design. To help resolve this challenge, and to add both simplicity and flexibility, the Inspirage Approval Matrix was implemented, which improved system user engagement, solution maintenance and scalability.
Enhanced Collaboration and Process Automation in the Cloud
Generally on-premise systems have complexities that are distinctive to their business operations. This client was no different; their on-premise PLM solution had some unique complexities in use that made the migration complex, including change management of manufacturing operations. Their users, like many other corporations, were in different geographies that utilized different products and product manufacturing capabilities which was driving different participation in the Product Launch and Change Management process. Oracle PLM Cloud equipped our customer with the tools they needed to ensure that they modeled this varying participation in the process, ‘localization,’ while continuing to seek process standardization, ‘globalization.’
By implementing the Inspirage Approval Matrix along with Oracle PLM Cloud, our client was able to realize significant improvement in this area while establishing a framework for ongoing processes. They are now seeing enhanced collaboration and process automation leading to faster new product launches, enhanced visibility to product and artwork changes, reduced user complexity on change routings and approvals, and improved change cycle times.
Our client, a leading bottled water company, identified the transition to cloud-based applications to be the core of their IT strategy.
Industry and PLM Experience Enable a Smooth Transition
As in any integration, it was important that the Inspirage team considered the balance between global process standardization and localized business needs when executing this cloud migration. Inspirage’s industry and PLM experience allowed us to arm our client with improved practices coupled with Inspirage IP that improved the user experience and reduced the solution complexity and maintenance. Additionally, we leveraged our proprietary PLM Cloud Methodology and IP to enable a smooth transition from on-premise to the cloud. This included data extraction, transformation and migration, as well as solution configuration propagation from non-production to production environments.
Optimizing the Business Processes with Cloud Technology
Because there were additional process and solution complexities that factored into this migration, Inspirage’s industry and product expertise was vital for the success of this project. The Oracle Cloud Suite shares item master and product data with other modules and integrated business processes. As a result, the implementation of one (i.e. PLM) can influence others (i.e. ERP). Embracing the advantages of cloud products while understanding the intricacies of these relationships was key to forging a foundation suitable for expansion, evolution, and business process harmonization.
Our client is realizing the benefits of PLM as they have shifted their focus and time from customizing the solution to meet their business objectives to optimizing the business processes built into their cloud technology. They are now positioned for growth and expansion by realizing a streamlined automation process which has resulted in expedited production of new goods, clear line of sight to product and design changes, simplification to the approvals and change routings processes and enhanced processing times.
