The Business Value of Configuration Lifecycle Management

Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM)?is the management of all?product configuration definitions?and configurations across all involved?business processes?applied throughout the lifecycle of each unique product.

The business value of CLM is significant, which is why it’s a winning concept to be adopted. CLM differs from division as it supports a coherent cross-functional use of configurable product information.?Users of CLM involve people from sales, engineering,?service, finance, and more. To get CLM right requires fulfilling six capability blocks:

• Engineering: Transparent and fast table-driven configuration modeling, support for base versions, special builds, and additional items result in faster time-to-market and precise pricing.
• Visualization: The configuration process can be shown in many different styles. One key feature is that they elevate the customer experience to the very top, which typically happens through photorealistic live 3D.
• Sales: Lead entry, configuration, quotes, sales follow-up, negotiating records, order confirmation. The process reduces errors, and the time it takes to close the deal, ensuring that what is ordered and transferred to ERP is accurate.
• Manufacturing: Generation of planned and firm production orders based on the unique and correct configuration to reduce production stoppages and errors due to miss-builds.
• Delivery: Supporting delivery covers everything from managing manufacturing flaws to quality inspection concerning dealer receiving and customer delivery to starting the owner’s warranty period.
• Service: Aftermarket support is a significant part of CLM, covering Software installs, Service bulletins, Claim and warranty management, Spare parts portal, Fleet/installs management, Owners app, and Field/work order planning and execution.

To tie these capabilities together with CAD, CRM, and ERP you sure need tight and secure integration which is greatly facilitated by the microservice architecture and Microsoft Azure Public Cloud on which Tivitysoft is based.?????

Get Ahead and Stay Ahead with Tivitysoft CLM

CLM aligns every business function that touches configured products, from engineering and sales to manufacturing and aftermarket service, to one shared source of configuration truth, including everything happening during updates and maintenance.

To realize CLM requires more than a CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) app. It is essential, but still only 25% of what a complete CLM solution consists of as illustrated here:

With Tivitysoft CLM, a Good Product Becomes the Perfect Product