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Product Lifecycle Management Consulting

One of the success factors of a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) initiative is how well it has been planned. Infosys' consulting team helps you develop a robust PLM vision, strategy and long-term roadmap.

We help analyze your current business scenario, competitive positioning and future needs to develop the PLM roadmap. As the PLM initiative covers all aspects of business - from research and development, manufacturing, planning and marketing to finance - it becomes imperative to develop a vision and roadmap, which corresponds with the product information needs of these entities. Our comprehensive approach encompasses your current operational realities and emerging business needs. Infosys' offerings include:

PLM Package Evaluation
Given the wide range of PLM software alternatives, you need a partner with deep domain expertise who can evaluate various options and recommend the best solution. Infosys' structured evaluation method enables customers to choose the right PLM package and methodology. We help you to:
- Define / understand business needs
- Identify and shortlist a potential solution
- Compare solutions based on technical and functional metrics
- Analyze strengths and weaknesses of solutions
- Record the result and suggest the optimal / best solution

Design and Development
Organizations must process and share real-time product information with various stakeholders. Infosys provides support for design and development of an integrated solution. Our solution addresses:
- Automating secured workflows across the extended enterprise
- Providing management visibility of product processes
- Retaining and sharing intellectual property
- Sharing information through the organization to improve the fit, form, function manufacturability, testability and supportability of products
- Making information more accessible to sub-contractors
- Decreasing turnaround times for engineering change requests and change orders
- Facilitating information sharing with customers to validated product performance and increase service satisfaction
- Providing requirements' traceability to increase product quality and customer satisfaction

IT Architecture
Proper modeling of business processes helps in translating them to technical services in a structured fashion, which in turn helps enterprises to respond faster to dynamic market requirements.

PLM Assessment
Infosys conducts a systematic assessment of your business needs and extends assessment support for both types of business scenarios (**Greenfield as well as Brownfield). Our assessment methodology covers:
- Interview with stakeholders to understand and record current pain points and limitations of the current process and system
- Analysis of pain points to identify root causes
- Weighing the root causes against industry benchmarks
- Prioritizing and targeting key business problems after understanding objectives and their metrics
- Assessing level of maturity for proposed solution
- Build business cases and recommend the optimal solution
- Convincing the decision makers to define an implementation roadmap
**Greenfield implies a ground up PLM solution. Brownfield refers to business processes or components of the PLM solution.

Developing a Program Governance Model
Infosys believes that a good governance model creates a better partnership. We select appropriate metrics and continually measure and monitor them to ensure that the PLM program progresses according to plan and delivers the desired benefits. Our approach covers planning, delivery and support phases for PLM deployment:
- Planning: Upfront goal setting and defining objectives for partnership
- Delivery: Delivery of targeted goals within the agreed timeline
- Support: Sustain and enhance the value of implementation

Developing a PLM 'Internal Marketing' Strategy and Communication Plan
Infosys' consultancy strategy encompasses internal communication. We support management to get a buy-in among users for PLM. In addition, we recommend to management what needs to be communicated at different stages of project implementation so that users are in sync with organizational strategic initiatives. Communication strategy guides customers how to handle issues related to cultural and organizational change.

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