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How Nutanix Reduced BOM Errors to Absolute Zero
技术
- 功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
- 功能应用 - 产品生命周期管理系统 (PLM)
适用行业
- Professional Service
- Software
适用功能
- 产品研发
- 质量保证
用例
- 过程控制与优化
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
挑战
According to David Sangster, Chief Operating Officer at Nutanix, his team is responsible for fulfillment, logistics, quality, reliability, new product introduction, and launching product into volume production. The company also outsources all of its manufacturing needs. “We work with many suppliers including contract manufacturers, distributors, and key technology partners,” said Sangster. “We also use a platform approach to product design and a configure-to-order (CTO) process to reduce SKU (stock keeping unit) proliferation and the need for additional engineering.” Sangster stated that the number and frequency of changes inherent in the product development activity, as well as data sharing among partners, had become problematic. Unfortunately, his team was stuck relying on Excel spreadsheets and email to address these manufacturing challenges. “It’s embarrassing to admit, but we had a number of instances where the suppliers built the wrong version of the product,” said Sangster. “It was ‘rev A’ all right, but the ‘wrong’ rev A.” Issues with rework, which included extra procurement, build, and test cycles, also increased delays and were becoming a significant impediment to the company’s total time to market (TTM) objective, which he found “totally unacceptable.” Sangster admitted change control was his “number one problem.” His priority was finding a solution to manage BOM integrity in order to reduce shipping delays and product errors. “A wrong product number in your BOM can completely blow your quarter and make for a very unpleasant conversation with your CEO and the Board,” he confessed.
关于客户
Nutanix creates a virtualized platform for public and private cloud infrastructure. Their solutions unify private, public, and distributed clouds, and empower IT to deliver applications and data that power their businesses. Nutanix solutions are built on the industry’s most popular hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology—a complete, 100% software-defined stack that integrates compute, virtualization, storage, networking, and security to power any application, at any scale.
解决方案
Sangster needed a PLM solution to address his BOM management problems and allow Nutanix to scale with a positive ROI and improved customer experiences. The solution also had to be a “financially responsible investment.” Sangster continued, “At the end of the day, we were looking for a solution that maximizes the benefit to the organization with a relatively modest investment.” The pay-per-use model is affordable with no large initial cash outlays. Easy to use with no need for costly IT or software administration overhead to manage or proctor the tool. A cloud-based always-on solution that eliminated any need for on-premises client/server solution. Integrates easily with our existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, NetSuite, eliminating hours of tedious, error-prone clerical work. Provides cost visibility to engineering to allow them to consider design/cost tradeoffs. Controlled environment for effective collaboration with suppliers. Scale with the global business. We don’t want to revisit this decision every year. Another reason Sangster went with Arena PLM was because he had been “favorably impressed by the continued evolution and improvement of each [Arena PLM] release.” He added, “Arena really listens to customers … don’t underestimate this trait in a partner.”
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