AUGMENTED SCOR : THE ENGINEERING PROCESSES

Design and production engineering go hand in hand with supply chain improvements efforts. Ineffective product design or design for manufacture and supply inhibit profitability just as much as poor supply chain design and execution. In fact, the two sets of processes are complementary, and we see the same five levels of maturity firms at level 1 in their supply chain thinking tend to be level 1 in their design and production engineering thinking.

The maturity matrices for the design and production engineering processes are shown in Tables 1.3 and 1.4. The matching technology maturity matrix is provided in Table 1.5.

Table 1.3: Process Maturity: Design Engineering
	Maturity Level 1	Maturity Level 2	Maturity Level 3	Maturity Level 4	Maturity Level 5
Manage Product Portfolio	Users are primarily from engineering PDM is used in one or a few key functions (e.g., MCAD, ECO) Product structures are limited to "standalone" bill structures	Basic PDM system integrated with primary authoring tools (business and technical) and downstream ERP system(s) Product portfolios are managed via traditional spread-sheets	Use of a comprehensive PDM for shared vaulting, product structure, work flow, visualization PLM supports base + option (variant) bills, alternates, substitutes, multiple views	Use of PLM accessible via Web connections to manage/view information through entire product life cycle PLM assures broad distribution of product information via notification and subscription services PLM supports product portfolio analysis and resource management (with an internal scope)	PLM systems are connected (federated) among key firms

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