Aberdeen Group: The PLM for Small to Medium-Size Manufacturers Benchmark Report
Enabling Profitable Growth for Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises
Small to mid-size manufacturers face the same increasingly complex product innovation environment as large manufacturers — including rapid product commoditization, globalization, recession, outsourcing, and demand for more complex products — and are more keenly affected by time-to-market pressures. Yet their product development processes are frequently out of control or at least inadequate to simultaneously address these challenges.
AberdeenGroup benchmark research shows that many small and medium-sized manufacturers are responding to the product innovation challenge by proactively focusing on product-related processes by planning for PLM (product lifecycle management) solutions.
Download Aberdeen’s PLM for Small to Medium-Size Manufacturers Benchmark report to learn why Aberdeen recommends that manufacturers:
- Educate themselves on PLM including the implications of PLM outside of departmental and company boundaries, for example, with supply chain partners.
- Look for PLM solutions that provide templates to common business processes and best practices and modify them as necessary.
- Include organizational, process, and performance measurement considerations in the PLM strategy.
- Consider software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to reduce the technical barriers to PLM adoption.
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