Agile PLM Center of Excellence Services - Hitachi Consulting

Solution Overview
Agile PLM Center of Excellence Services
Product Excellence
IntroductIon
Successful High Tech companies have already embraced the call for speed and
flexibility in their product development operations. However, these initiatives have
begun to present practical and sustainability challenges that erode profitability and limit
scalability.
■ What challenges do you face in driving growth through product innovation?
■ How well do your current processes and systems enable collaboration throughout
the extended enterprise while protecting IP?
■ Does your product roadmap leverage innovation across product platforms, drive
alignment amongst different product lifecycles, and manage appropriate investments
in the product portfolio?
■ How effectively do you coordinate electrical, mechanical, and software product
information throughout the extended enterprise?
■ How do you balance speed and flexibility with quality, compliance, and warranty
requirements?
■ How do you gain cross-functional alignment to implement necessary culture,
processes, and technology changes?
our ServIce
Hitachi Consulting works with companies to address these and other questions
necessary to achieve Product Excellence. Our expertise in Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) and our experience in our Agile Center of Excellence (CoE) help you
get the value you expect from your Product Excellence initiatives. We can help you set
up and implement effective processes across your product lifecycle using Agile PLM,
and support your organization with our Agile PLM service offerings across the service
lifecycle.
our SolutIon
To achieve best-in-class results from PLM, High Tech firms must:
■ Pick projects that drive high value based on a defined strategy and business case for
PLM
■ Define the PLM project scope based on the cross-functional processes necessary
support your business strategy
■ Establish imbedded performance metrics to enable visibility to the impact the
program is having
Case Study
client:
Leader in Fiber Optic Subsystems
and Network Performance Test
Systems
challenge:
■ Longer change cycle times due
to lack of collaboration between
engineering and manufacturing
processes.
■ Higher inventory costs due to
lack of effective product change
management processes and
lack of visibility into inventory
information at various sources
(vendors, open POs, etc.)
■ Manual change cycle processes
were error prone and time consuming.
Solution:
■ Product Lifecycle Management
■ Oracle EBS
■ SCMnet
■ ECO Lens
Benefits:
■ Significantly improved collaboration
between engineering and
manufacturing departments and
lowering cycle times
■ Better management of cost of
product engineering changes
■ Significant reduction in inventory
obsolescence after ECO Lens
deployment
■ Increased productivity for
reduction in process errors and
manual work
■ Complete integration with SCMnet
and ECO Lens
■ Lowered IT support costs

Solution Overview
■ Develop a PLM project roadmap that deploys incremental value quickly
■ Ensure the PLM implementation addresses culture, process, and systems needed to
see results
Research* shows that companies using PLM technologies see significant benefits to
their top and bottom lines in terms of:
■ Increased product revenue — up by 19 percent
■ Reduced product cost — down by 15 percent
■ Lower development costs — down by 16 percent on average
These are just some of the benefits that can be obtained by working with a management
consultant that has a proven track record of delivery in the High Tech industry.
Why hItachI conSultIng
Hitachi Consulting is a large, independent management consultancy with a unique
approach to delivering innovative solutions that drive business improvement. Some of
our differentiators include:
dedicated agile Practice
Hitachi Consulting is an Agile Certified Solution Partner, and a leading Agile
implementation, integration, and consulting partner. Our strong global Agile practice
— with more than 400 person-years of experience -- has executed more than 300
successful Agile implementation, upgrade, and integration projects. Hitachi Consulting
has also completed several key R&D projects for Agile product development, including:
■ Agile QA and testing
■ Agile Integration Server product development
■ Agile Product Sourcing (now Product Cost Management)
This experience gives Hitachi Consulting a competitive edge and a phenomenal insight
into Agile PLM.
Using our flexible delivery model, we provide timely, cost-effective, and high-quality
solutions, enabling our clients to focus on their strategic business objectives. Our model
leverages industry best practices to ensure process transparency, reduce costs and
project timelines, and provide the best fit into our clients’ Agile PLM needs.
experience
Hitachi Consulting draws upon the wealth of experience gained by our High Tech
team. Our policy is to recruit consultants from industry and other High Tech focused
consultancies. The revenue generated from our High Tech practice represents 30
percent of the revenue generated by Hitachi Consulting worldwide.
Skills and capabilities
Hitachi Consulting combines the skills and delivery capabilities normally found in a
niche technology provider, with the additional depth and breadth of capabilities usually
only found in a large global firm. It has been our deliberate aim to recruit only senior and
experienced people into our company.
Our consultants have an average of 10 years of experience in their chosen technical
discipline and many have worked for end-user customers so they are experienced in
delivering in-house projects within large corporations. This approach means Hitachi
Consulting is uniquely positioned to gain an in-depth understanding of the business
issues your organization is facing and can design and deliver the most appropriate
solutions to drive measurable business value.
approach
Hitachi Consulting’s advantage lies in our ability to bring together the best people with
the benefit of the frameworks and intellectual property developed from many successful
projects. By deploying our tried and tested tools and methodology, we can harness your
organization’s internal intellect and automate complex implementation processes.
*Source: Aberdeen Group
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About Hitachi
Consulting
-Bryan Stolle,
Co-Founder and CEO,
Agile Software
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