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Experience unparalleled connectivity with Autodesk’s cloud PLM solution—designed to empower global supply chain collaboration by unifying product development data and supplier interactions, and driving efficiency at every step of your procurement process.
In a dynamic marketplace, maintaining a robust and responsive supply chain is crucial to success. Autodesk’s cloud PLM solution streamlines communication and collaboration between internal teams and external suppliers, ensuring that every stakeholder has access to accurate, up-to-date information. By aligning product development data with collaborative workflows, the platform accelerates development cycles and reinforces quality and compliance across your entire organization.
Enhancing global connectivity
At its core, Autodesk’s cloud PLM solution facilitates a seamless connection between product development and supply chain data.With real-time access to shared data, companies eliminate traditional silos that hamper communication. This ensures design, engineering, and procurement teams are always on the same page. This continuous connectivity is vital for achieving a streamlined process that adapts quickly to changing market conditions and customer demands.
Key supply chain management capabilities
Autodesk’s solution provides a comprehensive suite of features tailored to optimize supplier collaboration and supply chain management:
- Centralized supplier information:
Consolidate approved manufacturer and vendor lists (AMLs and AVLs) in one accessible location, allowing your team to easily identify which suppliers provide key components and understand their strategic importance. - Optimized supplier selection:
Maintain a curated list of preferred suppliers, eliminating the hassle of sifting through outdated emails, spreadsheets, or paper documents. This centralized approach ensures that the right supplier is chosen at the right time. - Compliance assurance:
Integrate suppliers into your structured PLM workflows, linking them to a central system of BOM data and product requirements. This connectivity supports rigorous compliance checks, audits, and corrective actions as needed. - Enhanced procurement accuracy:
Share detailed product drawings and 3D visualization models with suppliers to ensure accurate quoting and design comprehension. This not only aligns internal stakeholders on project deliverables but also improves overall project outcomes. - Agile supplier reviews:
Automate supplier reviews to keep all parties updated with real-time information on supplier availability and performance, enabling more informed decision-making by engineering, procurement, and quality teams. - Seamless integration with enterprise systems:
Connect your PLM data with CRM and ERP systems, enabling automatic data exchange of supplier, inventory, and product details across your organization, thereby reducing manual interventions and errors.
Business outcomes and benefits
By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can achieve significant business outcomes:
- Increased cost predictability:
With all supplier data at your fingertips, budgeting and forecasting become more accurate, reducing unexpected expenses. - Improved supply chain agility:
Real-time data and streamlined processes allow your business to respond swiftly to market changes and supply disruptions. - Enhanced supply chain management:
A unified view of supplier information ensures more effective management of supplier relationships and performance. - Reduced waste and defects:
Accurate data sharing minimizes errors and defects, leading to less waste and higher overall quality.
Industries and stakeholders
Autodesk’s cloud PLM solution is tailored for a diverse range of industries. It supports automotive & mobility, building products & fabrication, consumer products, industrial machinery, and medical devices.
The platform benefits a broad spectrum of roles within an organization. Executives and management receive robust strategic support. Design and engineering teams enjoy enhanced collaboration. Procurement and supply chain professionals optimize workflows. Research and development teams accelerate innovation. Quality and compliance experts improve performance.
Voices from the field
Customers have experienced transformative results with Autodesk’s cloud PLM solution. As Tony Monty, Senior Mechanical Designer at Woodway USA, noted, “Cloud PLM has changed the way we collaborate and share data between departments and with our vendors, reducing the number of errors and issues before shipping.” Similarly, Adam Alcock, Global Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Spirax Group, highlighted improved productivity and communication across both internal departments and external suppliers. Michael Best, Engineering Technical Manager at ME Global, further emphasized the mobility benefits, stating that “with a laptop and Wi-Fi, account managers can place orders right from the customer site.”
Expanding your PLM ecosystem
In addition to optimizing supply chain collaboration, Autodesk offers a suite of complementary PLM capabilities:
- Bill of materials (BOM) management:
Document, track, and review every component to maintain data integrity throughout the product lifecycle. - Change management:
Control design revisions and ensure full traceability of all changes. - New product introduction (NPI/NPD):
Standardize processes to accelerate the journey from concept to production. - Quality management:
Automate quality workflows to track changes and analyze metrics, reducing defects. - Product data management (PDM):
Centralize all product data to enhance development agility and streamline collaboration.
Autodesk’s cloud PLM unites global supply chain data with collaborative workflows. It transforms how organizations manage supplier relationships and product development. This integrated approach not only boosts efficiency and accuracy but also propels your business towards greater agility and innovation. Discover how enhanced supply chain collaboration can elevate your product development processes and set new standards for quality and performance.