Full-value-chain Configuration Management

Full-value-chain configuration management focuses on providing comprehensive support for business processes and management standards across the entire product lifecycle, including product planning, R&D, production and sales.

Business Challenges

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Short Configuration Management Chain
Configuration management is either limited to the R&D phase or not implemented at all, resulting in a lack of full integration from R&D to production and sales.
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Inconsistent Configuration Definitions
Configuration definition descriptions lack standardization, making it difficult to achieve consistency across the enterprise.
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Low Efficiency in Product Definition
Lack of configuration constraint management and effective means of verifying accuracy, and ineffective configuration combinations that cannot be automatically identified, resulting in inefficient product definition.
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Inaccurate Change Switching
Configuration data lacks effective control, making it challenging to support accurate configuration changes.
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Immature Sales Configuration Management
Sales configuration management is not mature, and configuration data is disconnected from engineering and production, which necessitates extensive manual offline comparison, resulting in inefficiency and inconsistency.

Solution Overview

The Gant software configuration solution covers the entire value chain of configuration management, spanning product planning, engineering, production and sales:
Unified configuration resource definition solution
Standardized product model management, establishing a unified enterprise-wide configuration dictionary library.
Configuration management solution for R&D
Defining the relationship between product planning activities and configuration management, and outlining the scope of product development through engineering configuration.
● Configuration management solution for production
Managing the processes, standards and specific practices for the effective time of different manufacturing sites through production configuration management.
Configuration management solution for sales
Taking over engineering configuration, defining the processes, standards and specific practices for sales resources in alignment with sales strategies.

Solution Values

全业务链配置解决方案
拉通产品开发、订单交付两大业务流程,形成企业完整且一致的产品定义
统一配置定义
建立企业级配置字典库用以规范配置描述语言,统一全业务链对产品配置的标准定义
业务配置一致性
各业务配置数据之间的一体化集成设计,既能确保了置传递效率,也能大幅度提高配置定义在各业务领域的一致性
配置约束规则定义更严谨
既能丰富配置校验手段,也能确保产品定义的有效性
配置生效性管控更灵活
满足研发、生产和销售领域对产品配置投放的不同需求
销售配置管理完善且高效
打通销售与生产制造之间数据壁垒,在兼顾传统销售业务的同时,为个性化定制模式下的销售业务转型提供强大的数据保障
Integrating product development and order delivery business processes to form a complete and consistent product definition for the enterprise.
Entire business chain configuration solution
Establishing an enterprise-level configuration dictionary library to standardize the configuration description language to ensure a consistent definition of product configuration across the entire business chain.
Unified configuration definition
Integrated design of various business configuration data to ensure efficient transfer and greatly improve the consistency of configuration definitions across all business domains.
Business configuration consistency
Enriching configuration verification methods and ensuring the validity of product definitions.
More rigorous configuration constraint rule definitions
Meeting the diverse requirements of product configuration for R&D, production and sales.
More flexible configuration validity control
Breaking down data barriers between sales and manufacturing to provide robust data security for the transformation of sales operations, thus catering to traditional sales processes and the demands of personalized customization models.
Enhanced and efficient sales configuration management

常见问题解答

什么是全生命配置管理?制造企业为什么需要它?
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全生命配置管理指的是从产品策划到产品开发到生产制造到市场营销,通过配置形成对产品在不同阶段的定义。全生命周期配置管理有以下好处:
• 统一各部门沟通的语言/描述,提高沟通协同的效率和准确性
• 企业最新的研发成果能够通过配置,迅速且精准地投放给客户,从而更为高效地抢占市场。
• 市场最新的需求可快速地反馈到企业内部,企业可以更快速地对市场需求做出反应,从而提升产品的竞争力
• 配置作为连接研发-生产-销售的桥梁,可提升研发-生产-销售的协同效率和准确性,保证产品的质量和缩短产品交付周期,从而提升市场满意度
什么类型的产品适合配置化管理?
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对于规模化生产的、产品变型比较丰富的产品(典型如乘用车)非常适合配置化管理。同时对于定制型产品(小批量、多品种),配置管理能够极大提高LTC效率。
为什么要定义配置规则?
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定义配置规则,是将工程师脑子中的对于技术的约束关系显性化、知识化,使得这些约束在产品开发过程中以同样的逻辑约束产品开发、生产、销售。同时,也是有效控制产品多样性的手段。
配置能不能“铁路警察,各管一段”?比如,所有销售相关的内容都在销售系统中管理?
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不建议。销售配置与工程配置存在十分复杂的关系,并且最好共享配置引擎,分开管理容易导致销售配置与工程配置脱节。
如何解决企业特殊订单多、响应慢、交付周期长的问题?
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可以从以下两点着手进行解决:
1. 企业应强化产品规划、产品研发与市场部门之间的协同与沟通,并通过配置作为桥梁连接这三个部门。市场前瞻性需求应迅速反馈至规划部门,由规划部门进行需求的分析与整理,并将需求转化为规划配置,传递给研发部门。研发部门则进一步拆解需求,形成研发配置,并展开相应的研发工作。通过快速响应市场前瞻性需求,将需求高效转化为企业的产品,从而减少特殊订单的数量。同时,借助配置的快速响应能力,及时满足市场需求,缩短产品交付周期。
2. 企业应对产品与需求进行系统的整理和沉淀,并通过配置化管理手段,将难以避免的特殊订单逐步转化为常规的产品配置项。如此一来,后续的特殊订单便可逐步转变为常规性订单,从而有效提升响应速度,缩短交付周期。
对于具体的特殊订单,如何利用配置数据提高处理特殊订单的效率?
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订单配置体现常规配置和客户的特殊需求(特殊配置)。通过订单配置解析超级BOM,得到常规配置所涉及的BOM作为初始订单BOM,在此基础上,根据特殊配置要求进行专用件设计,并体现在该订单BOM上,最终形成该特殊订单的BOM。
由此可见,即使是特殊订单,也极大借助了配置化超级BOM的优势能够快速获得BOM。

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