plm and erp: separated by a common bill of materials (bom)

PLM and ERP: separated by a common BOM

Oleg Shilovitsky @beyondplm

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Who am I?

I spent 20+ years developing engineering and manufacturing software:

1990s: Selling and developing Autodesk apps in Israel

2000s: SmarTeam, Enovia, Dassault… working on PDM/PLM tech

2010-12: Inforbix… developing new approach in cloud search and data analytics

2012-14: Autodesk… joining team working on PLM360 and search technologies

2015: Consulting manufacturing companies at Beyond PLM.

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Beyond PLM…

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Beyond PLM…

I started to blog in 2008 and didn’t stop…

For the last 6 years I wrote ~1800 blogs about PLM and related topics - technology, engineering, manufacturing...

It is about 1’000’000 words …and I learned a lot:What I learned about PLM from six years of daily blogging

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Do you speak “stückliste” ?

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Why BOM is a boring topic to present?

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This is really cool stuff you would like to presentimage source: 3dprint.com, electrical-cars.net

Why BOM is a boring topic to present?

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These pictures are less cool…

BOM is everywhere…

….because you cannot do much without BOMCopyright © Beyond PLM 2015 image source: http://www.macobserver.com/

So, who is controlling BOM?

The ugly truth about PLM and ERP volleyball… Copyright © Beyond PLM 2015

http://beyondplm.com/2010/03/05/the-ugly-truth-about-plm-erp-monkey-volleyball/

Where is BOM in a product lifecycle?

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Supply Chain

MRP, ERP, PLM ... Where is DA BOM?

Manufacturing Design & engineering

Sales & Marketing

material procurement

shopflow planning

product control & planning

material planning

demand and scheduling

Design

Product planning

Engineering

Contract manufacturingSales configuration Compliance & regulation

BOM

MBOMEBOM

XBOMSBOM

Copyright © Beyond PLM 2015BOM connects all engineering and non-engineering processes

Design Eng Mfg Service Refab

Product Lifecycle

Dis

cip

lines

Mechanical

Electric

Electronic

Software

Services

ECR

ECO

ECN

Chan

ges

CAD and other content creation tools…

Data and lifecycle tools (PDM, PLM, MRP, ERP, SCM….)

BOM

Multiple dimensions of BOM complexity

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Bill of material and product lifecycle

Design Engineering and Manufacturing Physical product

Requirements

Design Engineering Planning

Planning

Planning

Ordering As-built

As-Built-SNMBOM

Support

Kit

Spec

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How to synchronize BOM data across the product lifecycle chain?

● Complete data representation

● Unique part numbers

● Synchronized changed

● To use only “part numbers” (no doc#...)

● Include all scheduled items for mfg

● Decrease # of levels

● Complete approval process

What about “single BOM” idea?

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“Single” BOM

DesignBOM

EngineeringBOM

SupplyBOM

RegulationBOM

ProductionBOM

SupportBOM

Why vendors are competing for BOM control?

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Design

PDM CAD

Simulation

Demand generation

Planning BOMs

Procurement

Manufacturing operation

Over the wall approach

BOM management demands

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No mistakes No manual typing No painful synchronization

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BOM integration challenges

#1 → BOM Transfer

#2 → Keep Item data in sync

#3 → Keep consistency of views

http://beyondplm.com/2011/11/02/bom-and-cad-pdm-plm-erp-integration-challenges/

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Why people want to separate CAD, EBOM and MBOM?

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Skateboard

Front Assy Rear Assy

FW FA

Board

RW RA

CAD / Engineering View

Skateboard

FW FA BoardRW RA

Manufacturing Assembly VIew

How to manage enterprise BOM?

http://beyondplm.com/2013/08/26/will-plm-manage-enterprise-bom/

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Multi-disciplinary Scalable People acceptance

Why companies are not ready for “single BOM”?

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Multidisciplinary design tools No agreement to shareData controlling behavior

3 important questions about BOM

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Q1: How to support connected processes?

Q2: How to stop syncing BOM between silos?

Q3: How PLM + ERP can support “single BOM”?

Want to discuss BOM? Call me @beyondplm.

Thank you!oleg@beyondplm.com