Supply Chain
Collaboration

Speed Communication Between
Internal Teams and Partners

Keep Your Supply Chain on the Same Page

Small team interacting with a digital map of the globe

Internal teams and their supply chain partners are more dispersed than ever. Everyone involved in new product development and introduction needs easy access to the latest product and quality information to ensure products can be built as designed and on time.

Whether you have a few partners, or hundreds, you have a platform designed for secure, rapid collaboration and traceability from early design through volume production.

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GLOBAL COMPANIES TRUST ARENA TO SPEED COLLABORATION

Our PLM and QMS solutions enable teams to share information anytime and anywhere. In fact, over 92% of the top electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers collaborate with Arena customers from around the globe. Arena’s supply chain collaboration software solutions connect your external partners to speed the delivery of innovative products.

SUPPLY CHAIN
PARTNERS

can use formal, real-time collaboration and informal discussion options

EXECUTIVE
MANAGEMENT

teams benefit from layered security to protect your critical intellectual property (IP)

I.T. AND
SYSTEM ADMINS

benefit from a multi-tenant cloud model to simplify deployment and use

PRODUCT
AND QUALITY

teams can take advantage of automated engineering change and design reviews

PROCUREMENT
TEAMS

can easily find approved manufacturers (AML) and vendors (AVL) to speed purchasing

CHANGE
ANALYSTS

can create and designate role-based access policies for internal teams and supplier partners

SECURE COLLABORATION WITHOUT COMPROMISE

Arena PLM and QMS provide flexible collaboration options without sacrificing security to foster collaborative reviews with your internal teams and partners.

FORMAL
REVIEW
COLLABORATION

Arena’s supplier licensing enables real-time collaboration with design partners, contract manufacturers, and suppliers
Role-based access policies ensure secure access only to the desired product information
Securely view and collaborate on the complete product record including items, BOMs, AML, 3D CAD files, changes, and quality records
Secure documents with configurable, context-aware watermarks that automatically apply

CHAT WITH A CONNECTED PRODUCT RECORD

We provide options for both formal and informal collaboration during product development and quality reviews
Arena’s social chat solution, Scribe, provides a simple way to collaborate outside of formal change reviews

SHARE WITHOUT
LICENSING
LIMITATIONS

Arena Exchange allows you to invite your partners to share and collaborate around any given design
Partners can view and comment around the latest product detail like engineering changes, parts, BOMs, and AML

CLOUD COLLABORATION DRIVES CUSTOMER SUCCESS

Design and build high-quality products on time, every time. Arena’s cloud-based product lifecycle management and quality management system solutions make it easy to securely share information.

Our platform is built to scale with business-ready templates, multiple collaboration options, secure access policies. We make it easy to evaluate, deploy, and expand Arena to drive customer success.

READ SUCCESS STORY

“We get terrific feedback from the give and take of the review process. Indeed, partners have provided feedback that has helped us avoid making unnecessary, confusing, or costly changes.”

Chief Operating Officer, Nutanix