As with any strategic IT initiative, the potential benefits from PLM are substantial but managing PLM initiatives effectively is vital to success.
While some PLM initiatives add tremendous value to organisations, others fail to deliver the expected benefits and may actually destroy value.
AESSiS PLM Program Managers are uniquely qualified to help companies initiate and drive PLM initiatives forward whilst addressing key challenges (whether they be technical, commercial or organisational) as they arise.
All combine project management skills with deep engineering, product development & PLM industry expertise.
An AESSiS program manager can assume responsibility for any or all of the following activities and tasks within your PLM program.
Program Initiation & Planning
- Diagnose where improvement opportunities exist and what these mean financially.
- Develop precise business driven requirements against which potential technology options can be evaluated.
- Develop sound commercial strategies to procure PLM technologies ensuring the achievement of best-value.
Define an implementation roadmap with time-scales that are aggressive yet achievable.
- Put in place robust implementation service contracts and statements of work so that cost and financial risk are minimised.
- Build a team equipped to meet the coming challenge.
Program Delivery & Execution
- Manage the program towards its key objectives tracking progress towards key milestones and achievement of the predicted project ROI.
- Coordinate resources against tasks ensuring adequate resource levels.
- Issue regular project progress & status reports to indicate actual progress against the plan.
- Maintain an open issues list to keep track of all open issues related to the project and proactively pursue these issues until they are closed.
- Proactively identify risks to program deliverables and timing and formulate appropriate contingency plans to mitigate those risks.