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From Design to Production: Mastering the EBOM to MBOM Transition

Imagine your design team spends hours designing a product that fulfills the customers' needs, only to find that the production floor struggles to interpret the design intent. How do you ensure that the design information is moved to the production floor accurately and efficiently without errors?

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What is CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote)

As markets grow more complex and customer expectations rise, companies must streamline their sales processes to remain efficient and responsive to customer needs. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by using CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software.

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How do you guarantee transformation of the correct data from your design environment to PLM?

08 September 2021

When you look at all PLM systems one of the fundamental issues they face is getting the correct, good quality data into the PLM system in the first place. “Crap in, Crap out” is a phrase that has been used to describe this problem whenever talking about transferring information from one system to another. How do you guarantee the correct information is transferred from your design environment to PLM?

Installed base management (What did we deliver)

18 August 2021

Installed base is the Sovelia Core template that takes a standard Bill of materials and makes it unique for every product that is delivered. You can categorize according to the service requirements, including possible spare parts or maintenance services.

Order fulfilment support

11 August 2021

From identifying long lead items early on in the project to assembly documentation, Sovelia Core can help fulfill all of your needs. The ability to access the right information, at the right time in the process by the right person should be fundamental to the solution we provide or that our customers expect.

Sales order configuration

04 August 2021

Sales configuration offers the logic and questions to generate a specific bill of materials or collection of parts. There is no other way of generating this solution.

Supplier Collaboration with Sovelia Core extranet

28 July 2021

The role of the Sovelia Core Extranet is two fold; to collaborate both with members of the organisation and the members of the supply chain outside of the company firewall. It provides a safe and robust way to collaborate and distribute information with external parties.

Production Process planning

21 July 2021

The way the product gets designed isn't necessarily the way to assemble the product. The "as designed" Engineering Bill of Materials (BOM) needs to be reordered so that the product can be effectively assembled. Sovelia Core includes tools to reorder the Engineering BOM to a view that better suits production.

Engineering Change Management - Managing the process of change

07 July 2021

Engineering Change Order, Engineering Change Request and Implementation Notes. Typically, our customers implement Engineering Change Order first. Then Change Request to formalise the gathering of ideas on how to change a product and finally documenting the change.