SAP PLM vs. Opcenter

SAP PLM is well suited for any industry that needs to track the creation of a product from the raw material stage all the way to the shipped product. I do not think it would be well suited for very small companies which do not have any materials, products, and inventory to track.

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Discreet Manufacturing it suits very well. Example, Medical device Industry, Semi conductor Industry, Electronic Industry. Process Manufacturing it less suits. Example, Pharma Industry, Chrmical Industry

• Provides lower-cost calculation
• This makes processes related to the product consistent, efficient, and simpler.
• It manages product development, support, and recycling projects effectively.
• It allows us to control the whole process.
• It allows us to see the future status of the products.

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• Discreet Manufacturing
• Medical device Industry
• Semi conductor Industry
• Electronic Manufacturing Industry

• Implementation Challenges.
• Not a one product fits all — each organization to customize a lot to accommodate their own processes.

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• Reports as part of package
• Complete documentation for upgrades
• Quality of product like some of the functionalities

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SAP PLM is very difficult to use for beginners.

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Once implemented, it provides seamless integration between PLM and ERP systems.

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SAP PLM encompasses SAP BW and SAP PRD. We tend to focus more on the SAP PRD portion as it directly involves more closely to production. We selected SAP PLM because it gives us a great visibility in the life cycle of materials, products and overall costs. SAP PLM compliments the other packages very well

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Opcenter best suits for the deseret manufacturing. It allows to customize and configure easily based on the customer need. Opcneter keeps the metada different than the operation data, so that it can be easily put on any database and switching between database is also very easy because of this feature. User friendly Opcneter Portal studio allows easy customization in case if any UI customization is needed. Modeling helps to configure one time master data setup. Designer helps to extend the meta data in case if needed.

• Accurately able to order raw materials which are necessary for the current production run, thus reducing overhead.
• The negative impact would be the initial cost of the software and how long it would take to ROI that cost.
• It has allowed us to control batches of product creation much more closer and have the ability to cut some erroneous costs which were found in large batches.

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• As service provider, Support/maintenance project with customer
• As service provider, Implementation project with customer
• As service provider, Upgrade project with customer

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