We thought we’d use this newsletter to address some of the questions. To that end, the first part of the newsletter is an excerpt from a white paper we prepared addressing digital transformation and PLM for the automotive supplier industry.  For those of you not in that industry, the core concepts in the latter half of the white paper are industry agnostic.  There’s a link in the excerpt below to the full paper.

Many automotive suppliers are heavily invested in legacy point solutions to support activities across the enterprise.  While these point solutions usually work well at performing a specific function, they often create silos that impede coordination.  Activities like a simple quote revision or a routine advanced product quality planning (APQP) corrective action can be cumbersome and error-prone.  These islands of data create a range of problems that can be broadly grouped into three categories: data, process, and people.