product lifecycle management

Retailers face a constant battle to maintain strong margins. Yet, in an era where environmental consciousness and societal issues are gaining immense traction among consumers, retailers must embark on a new challenge to create more sustainable and ethical supply chains. But how can retailers harmonise their moral and environmental responsibilities with their relentless pursuit of profitability? 

This podcast will take you on a journey through time as our hosts investigate how the rise of globalisation, the shifting economic environment and evolving consumer trends has forced businesses to prioritise efficiency in their pursuit of improved sustainability. 

Join Slimstock’s supply chain experts, Will Severn and Mike Donnelley as they explore how the push towards sustainability is revolutionising retail supply chains.

In this insightful episode of the Digital Adoption Show, titled "DAP Upskill," the speakers talk about technology adoption life cycles and their relationship with user-centricity. The podcast features Achyut Krishna, Senior Director of Engineering at Whatfix. He is responsible for the Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) product line. Achyut brings over 15 years of experience in the field to the discussion.

• Achyut explains that his engineering team utilizes a variety of software tools, such as Jira for change management, Git for source code management, and Jenkins for development operations. He emphasizes that the traditional boundaries of engineering roles are evolving, with engineers now required to understand and use multiple tools to ensure a seamless customer experience.
• The conversation delves into the concept of digital adoption and how DAP platforms enhance user-centricity. Achyut highlights the importance of tailoring content to specific user roles and functions to maximize its impact. He shares an example of how DAP can be used to bridge the learning curve when introducing new tools to the engineering team, ultimately improving productivity and customer satisfaction.
• The interview also touches on measuring the effectiveness of DAP in enhancing user experiences, emphasizing the importance of feedback and user tracking. Achyut underscores the need for a user-centric approach in designing and implementing DAP, allowing users to focus on what is relevant to their roles.
• Achyut concludes by highlighting the evolution of user-centricity as a central philosophy in their approach to DAP development and future initiatives aimed at further enhancing the user experience. 

The second guest on the podcast is Anuraag Hota, who leads product management at Whatfix. Anuraag introduces himself, highlighting his eight years of experience in the field and his passion for solving user pain points and improving product adoption.

• The discussion centers around the user-centricity of Digital Adoption Platforms (DAP) and their role in minimizing the technology adoption lifecycle for end-users. Anuraag shares insights about the software tools used by his department, including Jira and Product Board, emphasizing how these tools improve productivity and facilitate feedback collection from various teams.
• The conversation delves into the concept of digital adoption and how DAPs help users onboard smoothly. Anuraag mentions the importance of guiding users in their initial interactions with a product and highlights the role of DAP in simplifying this process.
• Anuraag elaborates on how he and his team are end-users of DAP while building these platforms. He discusses how DAPs like Whatfix increase their efficiency by automating tasks, streamlining workflows, and reducing internal support costs.
• The discussion continues with Anuraag's advice on getting the most out of DAP. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on user objectives, identifying pain points, and personalizing content rather than overwhelming users with generic pop-ups and messages. Anuraag encourages users to approach DAP strategically to achieve a higher return on investment.

Overall, the conversation highlights the significance of user-centricity in DAP and offers valuable insights for users looking to leverage DAP effectively in their organizations.

In today's competitive landscape, retailers must adopt a holistic approach to align commercial and operations teams with the wider business. As a platform for collaboration, S&OP is gaining ground in many industries. But how can businesses in the retail environment unlock the potential of S&OP to mitigate risk and deliver stronger profits?

Join Slimstock’s supply chain experts, Will Severn and Mike Donnelley as they explore how retailers can take advantage of S&OP unlock new levels of efficiency, responsiveness, and customer experience.

Retail is a complex and changing environment. And to thrive in this industry, retailers must constantly adapt. However, faced with tough economic conditions, widespread disruption and growing consumer pressure to deliver goods faster and cheaper, supply chain agility has become a competitive differentiator. 

Join Slimstock’s supply chain experts, Peter Bocken and Will Severn as they explore the emerging trends and challenges retailers face today. Exploring the rise of omni-channel, the impact of economic stress on consumer shopping behaviour and the nuances of fashion, food and con food environments, this podcast will demonstrate how you can mitigate risk to create more response and efficient supply chains. 

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Marty Groover of C5MI. They believe in the power of technology to transform, the power of knowledge to guide, and their own experience to position your business as a winner.

C5MI is a services firm comprised of trusted business practitioners with deep knowledge and first-hand experience managing world-class business processes and implementing cutting-edge technology solutions for manufacturers and supply chains globally. They are the only firm that offers companies looking to improve their business processes the full package: process excellence advisory and full-scale technological implementation from a trusted journey partner. They will save them money first by making their processes more efficient and effective; then they will help them improve their business operations through investments in technology, further increasing efficiencies, always working alongside them throughout their journey. They see themselves as allies, not consultants; that’s why they excel at providing customers with long-term value and continuous improvement to create better, stronger, and more efficient companies. Learn more about them and visit their website today at https://www.c5mi.com/

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This week on the IpX #TrueNorth Podcast: Join us for another animated discussion with IpX President Joseph Anderson as he reconvenes with Martin Haket & Martijn Dullart, ASML, on the challenges and impact of data integrity and interoperability in the industrial ecosystem. They also delve into the value proposition of business process hierarchy, CM2, configuration identification, and how favoring new product development over process transformation leads to poor quality.

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PLM is not the same as deploying IT software   

In this episode of The Human Side of Engineering and Product Development, Andy welcomes Sassan Khoubyari, Senior Manager of PLM Solutions at Saratech. He explains that PLM is not just an IT initiative, but a business process transformation initiative that needs to be understood and executed by the CEO and other executives in order to be successful.

Sassan also discusses some misconceptions about PLM. For instance, PLM systems must be understood as a core part of business process transformation. He also cautions that implementing a PLM system will not automatically fix broken processes - it is only a tool to support a well-functioning workflow. Finally, Sassan defines what digital twin means and how it is implemented in a practical sense.

HUMANIZING MESSAGES

SASSAN: PLM must start small then grow into more integrated processes

"Sometimes we see that companies are trying to do too much at the same time altogether and that really put a lot of pressure on their organization because, as I said, the involvement of process owners, engineers on different levels, and integration between applications, are really key and important. So for that reason, we work with the organizations to put together a roadmap. It might be a 2-year or 3-year roadmap, and we walk them through what are the maturity levels that an organization can go through in PLM."

SASSAN: The concept of Digital Twin defined

"The concept of digital twin as actually defined by Dr. Michael Grieves back in 2003 and it's really about 3 main parts. It's about physical products in real space, virtual products in virtual space, and the connected data that tied the physical and virtual product together. So digital twin or virtual replicas of physical devices that are kind of bringing it together with your digital environments."

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It has been a while since we had an episode of the podcast focussing on Product Lifecycle management (PLM), so I invited my colleague Ismail Serin, who heads the product management for PLM solutions at SAP to come on the show to talk a little about it.

We had a fascinating conversation discussing what is happening in the PLM space these days, how cloud is helping that trend, and how PLM helps with sustainability wins .

The two links Ismail mentioned at the end of the podcast are

1. The SAP EPD Community and
2. The SAP EPD Product Overview
3. Plus a bonus link to a new short Enterprise Product Development video
   
   

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

If you want to learn more about supply chain semiconductor shortages, don't forget to check out SAP's recently published Point of View paper on the topic, as well as my podcast with the author of the paper Jeff Howell.

And don't forget to also check out the 2021 MPI research on Industry 4.0 to find out how to increase productivity, revenues, and profitability for your operations. This global study examines the extent to which manufacturers deploy Industry 4.0 in their business and the benefits it brings.

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• Lorcan Sheehan
• Krishna Kumar
• Olivier Brusle
• Alicia Farag
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• Luis Olavarria
• Alvaro Aguilar

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In the manufacturing world, many organisations use software solutions from SAP, and Siemens.

In July of this year, we in SAP announced our road map to integrating our  solutions with Siemens' Teamcenter which showed that Phase 1 of that road map would launch in October of this year (2021).

To find out how the integration is proceeding, I invited the solution owner Gareth Webb to come on the podcast.

We had a great conversation spanning the reasons why this integration is needed, how it differs from any previous 3rd party integrations,  and where to from here for this solution. 
I learned loads, I hope you do too...

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If you want to learn more about how to juggle sustainability and efficiency mandates while recovering from pandemic-induced disruptions, meeting growth targets, and preparing for an uncertain future, check out our Oxford Economics research report here.

And if you want to read up on our Industry 4.0 blueprint repost, head on over to https://www.sap.com/cmp/dg/intro-industry40/index.html, and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane! 

Podcast supporters
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• Lorcan Sheehan
• Krishna Kumar
• Olivier Brusle
• Alicia Farag
• Joël VANDI
• Luis Olavarria
• Alvaro Aguilar

And remember you too can Support the Podcast - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent Digital Supply Chain episodes like this one.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

Finally
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If you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it.

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Siemens and SAP announced a very significant partnership last year.  My colleague, and occasional podcast guest Richard Howells wrote a nice explainer about the partnership which is also worth checking out, as is this quick video.

The partnership helps organisations accelerate time to value by enabling a digital thread throughout the manufacturing lifecycle, so  I invited Joe Bohman Senior Vice President at Siemens' Digital Industries Software and Keith Zobott Global Vice President of Digital Products & Projects at SAP to come on the podcast to talk about it.

We had a great discussion about the partnership. I learned loads, and I hope you do too.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page, head on over to the new Digital Supply Chain podcast forum, or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn more about how Industry 4.0 technologies can help your organisation read the 2020 global research study 'The Power of change from Industry 4.0 in manufacturing' (https://www.sap.com/cmp/dg/industry4-manufacturing/index.html)

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane! 

Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous supporters:

• Lorcan Sheehan
• Krishna Kumar
• Olivier Brusle
• Alicia Farag
• Joël VANDI
• Luis Olavarria
• Alvaro Aguilar

And remember you too can Support the Podcast - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent Digital Supply Chain episodes like this one.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

Finally
If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to just send me a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn.

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SAP recently launched a new cloud based solution into the market called Enterprise Product Development. I was keen to learn more about it, and to share those learnings with listeners of the podcast so I invited SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solution Manager Mark Landrosh to come on the show to tell us all about Enterprise Product Development.

I learned loads, and had fun finding out about Enterprise Product Development and PLM, aspects of supply chain that I previously knew very little about.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

To learn how supply chain leaders improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, download the research study of 1,000 COO’s and Chief Supply Chain Officers – “Surviving and Thriving How Supply Chain Leaders minimize risk and maximize opportunities”.

And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Digital Supply Chain solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/digitalsupplychain and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.

And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!

Podcast supporters
I'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous supporters:

• Lorcan Sheehan
• Krishna Kumar
• Olivier Brusle
• Alicia Farag
• Joël VANDI
• Luis Olavarria
• Alvaro Aguilar

And remember you too can Support the Podcast - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent Digital Supply Chain episodes like this one.

Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!

Finally
If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to just send me a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn.

If you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it.

Thanks for listening.