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Parviainen, A. (Antti). "Product portfolio management requirements for product data management." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2014. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201409021800.
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In large organisations today the amount of products is numerous and it is challenging for senior management to have proper control and understanding over all products. As the product is the most important aspect for an organisation to consider, senior management must have ability to manage investments on products and follow development of product related indicators. Managing products as investment on portfolio level, where products are divided into a limited amount of portfolios is a solution for achieving decent control over product investments on senior management level.
Product portfolio management is decision making oriented, where the goal is to make the best possible strategic and financial decisions when allocating constraint resources across the entire product portfolio. The product portfolio management aims to increase strategic fit of chosen new product projects, balance in product portfolio and maximizing value of the products. The product portfolio management is constantly ongoing, cross-functional decision making function which is present in all lifecycle states of the portfolios.
In this research the product portfolios are seen as investments for mainly internal use of a decision making process. The product portfolios are items that are embodied into the case company’s product data management system and the product portfolios have own lifecycle states. Approach in this research is constructive, where a current state of the case company is analysed and based on the analysis and the literature review a construction is established. The Research questions are:
1) What are the required product structures in product data management systems to support product portfolio management practices?
2) What are the information elements and their lifecycle states and what they should be in product data management systems to support product portfolio decisions?
Results of this research are the current state analysis committed in the case company and the construction of product portfolio management structure and lifecycle states. In the construction a portfolio package is defined. The portfolio package is the item used for embodying portfolios into the information systems. An information model for implementing the portfolio packages into the product data management system is introduced. The construction also presents product structure for implementing the portfolio package into the product data management system. Relation of lifecycle states between the portfolio package and other items in a product hierarchy is assessed in a nested lifecycle model. Two models, required and recommended, are suggested for the company to consider for managing the lifecycle of the portfolio package item. All the results are validated from several perspectives.
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Marti, Michael. "Complexity management : optimizing product architecture of industrial products /." Wiesbaden Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5435-6.
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Bukhari, S. (Syed). "Performance management for product portfolio management, new product development & rapid product development." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201802071150.
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Ever evolving and changing market scenarios have increased the competition between organizations to maximize the performance of their products and operations. In this challenging environment performance of product portfolio management (PPM), new product development (NPD), rapid product development (RaDe) have significant impact on their monetary values. To deal with the existing scenarios, the performance management of the product development and its related internal process of portfolio management is very crucial. NPD and RaDe processes result in a new sales item which needs to be effectively introduced in the product portfolio, but the performance measurement is required to develop the sales item and maintain them in the portfolio.
This study is researched and worked upon in five stages. The existing targets and KPIs are studied after a through literature review. The current practices of case companies were identified and the similarities and differences were observed. In the end, a new performance management frameworks was developed to manage NPD and RaDe projects including their impacts to the product portfolio.
The developed new performance management framework for NPD and RaDe divides the activities into two phases, planning and development. During the planning phase the PPM targets and KPIs will provide analysis and decision making concept to start NPD or RaDe type of product development to create new sales items into the portfolio. The second phase, the NPD and RaDe development, provides metrics for the NPD and RaDe project execution.
The developed framework is generic and will be suitable for both RaDe and NPD activities. In the framework, the company and PPM strategy is aligned with the success factors to achieve the required targets, measured through quantifiable or non-quantifiable KPIs to evaluate the success of the new product and its impact to the product portfolio.
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TERÁN, VÁZQUEZ MARÍA FERNANDA. "“TPM” TOTAL PRODUCT MANAGEMENT/MANEJO TOTAL DEL PRODUCTO." Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/94572.
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La presente memoria de experiencia profesional tiene como objetivo comprobar que proteger la calidad e integridad del producto es lo más importante para la compañía, ya que depende por completo del cliente y este a su vez se debe asegurar la correcta rotación y frescura de los productos terminados para evitar que alcancen o rebasen su estándar de edad en cualquier etapa de la cadena de valor, desde su ingreso al Centro de Distribución (CEDIS) y finalmente a manos de los clientes.
El puesto de Total Product Management o Manejo Total del Producto (TPM) surgió de la necesidad de contar con un sistema de mejora continua para la administración de todos los elementos que conforman a la compañía Jugos del Valle S.A. de C.V. (JDV), puesto que fue implementado por el grupo The Coca-Cola company gracias a ello, se contribuye la participación en la elaboración de los productos dentro de los estándares de calidad, inocuidad y seguridad que el cliente requiere, de igual forma cumplir al 100% los procesos que lo conllevan y que de este modo se tenga una operación controlada. Al responsable del puesto de TPM, se le conoce como analista TPM ya que es el encargado de aplicar los procesos para todas las etapas de la cadena de valor, es decir desde que se elabora el producto, pasando por almacén de planta, transporte, centros de distribución, rutas, distribuidores, detallistas y por último llegando a manos del cliente final.
Las condiciones de manejo para los productos que la compañía requiere dependen del tiempo de permanencia y la temperatura en toda la cadena de valor, desde su almacenamiento, distribución, comercialización y exhibición de los productos. Se tiene que garantizar al consumidor que los productos que se les están vendiendo son recibidos con el grado de frescura y calidad requerida, cabe mencionar que dentro de las bondades adicionales a mencionar podemos destacar el aumento efectivo para la mejora a la rotación y el incremento de la calidad logrado en los procesos productivos dirigidos al mercado de bebidas.
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Antonov, Anton. "Product Information Management." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-150108.
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Product Information Management (PIM) is a field that deals with the product master data management and combines into one base the experience and the principles of data integration and data quality. Product Information Management merges the specific attributes of products across all channels in the supply chain. By unification, centralization and standardization of product information into one platform, quality and timely information with added value can be achieved. The goal of the theoretical part of the thesis is to construct a picture of the PIM, to place the PIM into a broader context, to define and describe various parts of the PIM solution, to describe the main differences in characteristics between the product data and data about clients and to summarize the available information on the administration and management of knowledge bases of the PIM data quality relevant for solving practical problems. The practical part of the thesis focuses on designing the structure, the content and the method of filling the knowledge base of the Product Information Management solution in the environment of the DataFlux software tools from SAS Institute. The practical part of the thesis further incorporates the analysis of the real product data, the design of definitions and objects of the knowledge base, the creation of a reference database and the testing of the knowledge base with the help of specially designed web services.
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Khurum, Mahvish. "Decision Support for Product Management of Software Intensive Products." Doctoral thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00511.
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Context: At the core of choosing what features and level of quality to realize, and thus offer a market or customer, rests on the ability to take decisions. Decision-making is complicated by the diverse understanding of issues such as priority, consequence of realization, and interpretations of strategy as pertaining to the short-term and long-term development of software intensive products. The complexity is further compounded by the amount of decision support material that has to be taken into account, and the sheer volume of possible alternatives that have to be triaged and prioritized; thousands or even tens of thousands of requirements can be the reality facing a company. There is a need to develop the functionality that is strategically most significant, while satisfying customers and being competitive, time efficient, cost effective, and risk minimizing. In order to achieve a balance between these factors, all the stakeholders, within an organization, need to agree on the strategic aspects and value considerations to be considered, and their corresponding relative importance. Objective: The objective of this thesis is to provide enhanced decision support for product managers faced with decision-making challenges. This involves, but is not limited to, enhancing the alignment between the product and portfolio management with respect to product strategies, and enabling the use of value as a basis for product management and development related decisions. Method: A number of empirical studies, set in industry, have been performed. The research methods used span from systematic mapping, and systematic reviews to case studies, all aligned to identify possibilities for improvement, devise solutions, and incrementally evaluate said solutions. Close collaboration with industry partners was at the core of the research presented in this thesis. Result: The MASS method presented in this thesis can be used to evaluate strategic alignment and identify possible root causes for misalignment. To strengthen strategic alignment, the Software Value Map and corresponding decision support material, proposed in the thesis, can be used by product managers for making effective and efficient strategic decisions in relation to portfolios, products and process improvement, following a systematic and aligned process. Conclusions: The area of software product management, in the context of market-driven software intensive product development, is a field with unique challenges. The specifics of the solutions are based on industry case studies performed to gauge state-of-the-art, as well as identify the main challenges. The decision support developed takes the form of maps and frameworks that support software product management on product and portfolio level decisions, strategic alignment, value-based requirements selection, and value-based process improvement.
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Cheung, Yau-kay Tony, and 張有基. "Product management systems for consumer products in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31264293.
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Hollins, William J. "Product status and the management of product design." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1989. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21218.
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Changes in product design occur either innovatively where new concepts are used (Dynamic Design Status) or incrementally where changes are made without altering the existing concept (Static Design Status). This thesis identifies. the factors that make a product static or dynamic and then proposes the disciplines that should be emphasised when designing a product of a particular status. This is then used in the development of Design Process which is recommended as a user "tool" for directing the Design Manager through the stages of design from the market need, or product idea, through to the stage where detail design commences. Several publications have resulted from this research.
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Wright, Lucy. "Product life cycle management." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301674.
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Corbett, Brian. "Configuration design methods and mathematics for product families." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/17283.
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Siddique, Zahed. "Common platform development : designing for product variety." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/17698.
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Hough, Darren William. "Aesthetics and product usability." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23107.
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Henk, Michael B. "A study on project iterations and the effects seen on system constraint and project duration." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007henkm.pdf.
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Yan, Bingwen. "Managing new product development processes: an innovative approach for SMEs." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1286.
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Thesis (MTech (Mechanical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010Many companies are currently focusing on how to stay innovative, how to innovate and how to create an innovation climate in their companies. Why is innovation vital to companies? New Product Development (NPD) can be a key factor in this regard. Companies believe that NPD is their life blood; it can be the better way to survive firmly and be more competitive. In addition, the strategy of how to manage NPD process effectively and efficiently is becoming a powerful way of achieving a competitive edge. As Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in South African economic development, it is critical for companies especially (SMEs) to seek an ideal way to manage innovation productively. However, to be innovative is not easy for any organization and it should be managed effectively. The effective management of innovation and NPD in SMEs is investigated in this study. Innovation and NPD has already become the key drivers of sustainability and competitiveness for many companies especially SMEs. Innovation and NPD as the main subjects that are carefully studied, discussed and understood in larger corporations and multinational enterprises. It would appear that the same cannot always be said when it comes to SMEs.
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Morris, Ashley. "Product change management : to improve the through-life management of high-value, long-life products." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/111198/.
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The designs of complex products such as aircraft, trains and industrial plant continually evolve, during design, manufacture and also during their operating lives. Such products are invariably managed in complex multi-stakeholder environments. The product change process generates significant volumes of information and this continues through-life as designs are modified in the light of technological innovation, supplier changes and operating experience. The volume of information generated is enabled by increased network connectivity together with the competitive advantages that can be derived from greater product knowledge derived from monitoring product performance. As the service economy has grown, manufacturing and maintenance activities have increasingly been outsourced to enable a greater focus on higher, value-added, aftermarket, support services. Consequently, while the responsibility for managing the design of the end product rests with “Tier 1” manufacturers, operators and maintainers, there has been a significant increase in the responsibility for suppliers to manage design changes. To improve the management of the product change process is difficult because it spans many organizations in the supply chain and to make progress requires collaborative action. Managing products during their life, particularly in the context of design changes, is a complex process that requires the coordination of many activities spanning design, procurement, production, marketing, sales, support and disposal. These activities constitute a complex process model that is highly dependent on accurate information and can have a significant impact on an organization’s cost base. In addition "products" sold by a Manufacturer are often described as "assets" by a product operator. Regardless of whether something is considered a "product" or an "asset", the change process is supported by a value chain that spans both the domains of manufacturing and support services. Working practices and skills must constantly adapt in response to innovation and this includes the mental perspectives with which people view the world and solve problems. A significant challenge that organizations face when seeking to remain competitive relates to the need to respond to the challenges of innovation. This drives a perpetual cycle of problem solving whereby existing operations are assessed and opportunities for improvement identified. This research assesses the challenges to maintaining design integrity throughout the product lifecycle, explores the impact of inaccurate product information and sets-out an approach to achieving improvements to the management of product information specifically for complex products.
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Pahl, Shane D. "Product Management: the Decision Process." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500133/.
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This thesis builds upon several theoretical ideas. The first of which is the anthropologists’ transition into the corporate context and the particular type of skills and value that someone with anthropological training can bring to operations management. As anthropology is relatively new and unfamiliar to corporations, anthropologists are often hired without explicit knowledge of how they will address organizational problems. Frequently, this incremental relationship building between the anthropologist and the organization leads to shifting project goals which come only after the anthropologist is able to reveal initial findings to someone who has the power to grant the anthropologist further access to employees and company information. This refocusing comes from a building of trust that is crucially important for the anthropologist’s ability to identify social issues, which is the anthropologist’s expertise. In order to develop the context of this project the following paragraphs will explain in more detail and expand into particular cases in which anthropologists have helped organizations to identify and manage social, organizational problems. As a relationship needs to be built between the anthropologist and the organization, here I argue that there needs to be continual relationship building between anthropological, design, and management theories to optimally solve organizational problems.
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Sharif, Syed Ahsan Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Development of an enterprise knowledge base (EKB) framework for new product development (NPD) in customer order driven engineering (CODE) environment." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/24260.
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It is widely believed that with the transition from the industrial to information-based economics, organizational knowledge has emerged as the single most critical resource at both macro and micro levels, which promotes the creation, sharing, and leveraging of the organization???s knowledge in current Customer Order Driven Engineering (CODE) environment. Insufficient knowledge management, hence lack of a structured Enterprise Knowledge Base (EKB) in a CODE environment, whilst involved in New Product Development (NPD) process may result in several problems resulting in creating less successful products. This research establishes an ???Enterprise Knowledge Base (EKB) framework??? with focus on the Product, Process and Organizational issues related to the NPD process. The framework has three major stages, namely ???Knowledge Acquisition???, ???Knowledge Organizing??? and ???Knowledge Validating???. Various frameworks/methods/models are developed as steps for each of these stages. The framework may increase the effectiveness of product and process development as well as enterprise competitiveness through developing a system architecture to understand, analyse and map organisational, operational activities and business objectives; and increasing the ability of an organisation to establish an integrated partnerships to share efforts on the design, manufacture and delivery of products. In knowledge acquisition stage, a ???Knowledge Capture framework??? and the ???Relationship matrices??? are developed to analyse and link the generic knowledge items of a NPD process in concurrent engineering environment. Among the relationship matrices, Task versus Task (Design Structure Matrix - DSM) matrix is comprehensively explored and decomposed to structure and link several processes at different levels for effective representation of the overall enterprise representation. In knowledge organizing stage, the acquired knowledge (important relations identified in the Task versus Task matrices) is represented in the form of ???Questionnaires???. Best practices gathered from several manufacturing firms in NPD in CODE have also been used as knowledge resource base for the Questionnaires. For grouping and validation of these Questionnaires, an ???Assessment Model??? is developed, which consists of five performance indicators of the organization namely ???Marketing???, ???Technical???, ???Financial???, ???Resource Management???, and ???Project Management???. Industry applications are carried out in two Australian Manufacturing Companies for the validation of the acquired knowledge. Two tests are carried out; in order to assess the sensitivity of question categories followed by another test to observe whether the model can accurately display the overall performance of the company in the five categories of NPD phases. These two tests have identified possible improvement areas in the NPD process of manufacturing organizations involved in the validation phase. Up to 80% of the findings of the EKB framework and assessment model were found to reflect the actual practices of the organizations.
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Hooi, Leng Lee. "Application of product data management within the product development process." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2002. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/14688/.
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Manufacturing companies need to be able to respond to customer demand quickly and accurately. This requires the capability to manage product data effectively. Product Data Management (PDM) systems have been identified as a solution to deliver this capability by providing the right information to the right people at the right time and in the right format. The foundation of this research is that the concept of PDM is relevant and important within the product development process. This research focuses upon how the PDM concept is applied in practice to define and configure products and how it can be integrated with other major information systems to enable an enterprise wide information system. To enable the research aim, an extensive review of literature was undertaken to investigate the effectiveness of PDM in enhancing the product definition process and in creating an interface between different business functional areas. A survey ofPDM system usage was undertaken aimed at identifying the current level of PDM usage within manufacturing enterprises in the UK. This was followed up by three industrial case studies to provide some degrees of validation of the results obtained. A need for effective one time order capture was identified from the three case studies which led to the development of a model specification for a late product configuration tool. A prototype system was produced to validate the design specification and was successfully demonstrated to a collaborating company. During the submission of this thesis, the collaborating company and the university are working on funding a project to pursue with its implementation. The work undertaken has firmly established the relevance ofPDM within the product development process and the importance of effective interfaces between PDM and other manufacturing information systems. The research will be of interest to small and medium sized manufacturing companies searching solutions for improving the management of their product data to enhance product definition and configuration.
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Edin, Michaela, and Ellen Östberg. "Clarifying product management : A study of the sensemaking outcome in a management practice." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255727.
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Today’s technological development has shed new light upon the management practiceproduct management and it is considered more important than ever to manage products.Moreover, organisations to a growing extent face external bodies that evaluate them andimpose organisational structures that they need to comply with. Product management isnevertheless characterised with ambiguity, broad definitions and various depictions. Ascattered research field together with practitioners struggle to define the area stress the needto clarify product management structuring. This thesis uses a sensemaking perspective and akaleidoscopic approach in order to capture product management structuring in a fragmentedarea. It means that we investigate what the sensemaking outcome of product management isand why organisational members make sense this way. This thesis has found that productmanagement is understood on two main levels and that the practice comprises bothconsistency and inconsistency on an inter-organisational level. Findings suggest that sharedidentity, strong commitment, cues, metaphors and expectations have influenced consistentunderstandings and crystallised the sensemaking outcome. In addition, product governanceinfluences product management and therefore the sensemaking outcome are inconsistent inseveral structuring elements. The thesis concludes that our contemporary productmanagement practice is comprised with general components that can be structured similarlybut also components that require a customised structuring due to the product governance trait.
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Jang, Namkyung. "Apparel product development : influencial factors of apparel product success and failure /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3036833.
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Bin, Sheng. "Web-based product platform development for mass customization /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36161469.
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Kokkonen, T. (Tatu). "Business case sales planning concept for new products and product portfolio." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201710112974.
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Companies are demanded to introduce new products to market in order to satisfy diverse customer needs and be competent in relation to competitors. In addition to traditional, full-scale new product development (NPD), lighter development models have recently been researched. Rapid product development (RaDe) is a new agile product development model aiming to aid companies to adjust quickly to changing customer needs. Whether new products are introduced by lengthy NPD or quick and agile RaDe, it should be ensured that development activities are aligned with company strategy and that new products enhance the overall profitability of the company. Business case analysis investigates the business value of a new product initiative. Generally, market assessment inputs estimations of market potential and attractiveness into the business case analysis and thus functions as the basis for anticipated sales volumes and sales prices. Expected revenues are compared with life cycle cost predictions in order to conduct financial analysis presenting the attractiveness of the new product initiative in chosen financial metrics. However, there is a lack of business case analysis methodology on product portfolio level, and this study seeks to address this research gap. This research is an explorative and qualitative case study using constructive approach. The results of this study include a concept for calculating financial metrics for new sales item so that product portfolio level changes in sales are taken into account. The developed concept seeks to be eligible for NPD- and RaDe-contexts alike. The essence of the concept is comparison of the anticipated net cash flows for the sales items that are affected by the new item’s introduction in two scenarios. In first scenario, it is assumed that the new item is not introduced at all and the anticipated net cash flows are calculated based on that assumption over the new item’s life cycle. The second scenario calculates the net cash flows for the affected items taking into account the likely impact the new item has on the sales of those items. The differences of net cash flows between these two scenarios are taken into account as a cash outflow or inflow for corresponding time period when calculating net cash flow based financial metrics for the new sales item. In addition, this study introduces a proposition of a concept for product portfolio level sales planning and follow-up. In this concept, the sales plan consists of the planned sales volumes and the planned sales prices for individual sales items. Both target setting and follow-up of actual execution should be implemented on the level of volume and price so that the unit of planning is revenue (volume * price). Targeted and actual sales figures for individual sales items are further rolled up to upper commercial product portfolio levels. This enables analysis and comparison of targeted and actual sales performance on each product portfolio levelYritykset joutuvat esittelemään uusia tuotteita markkinoille tyydyttääkseen moninaiset asiakastarpeet ja pitääkseen itsensä kilpailukykyisenä suhteessa kilpailijoihin. Perinteisen, täyden mittakaavan tuotekehityksen (New Product Development — NPD) lisäksi hiljattain on tutkittu kevyempiä ja nopeampia tuotekehitysmalleja. Nopea tuotekehitys (Rapid Product Development — RaDe) on yksi tällaisista ketteristä tuotekehitysmalleista. Se pyrkii auttamaan yrityksiä vastaamaan uusiin asiakasvaatimuksiin nopeasti. Riippumatta siitä, kehitetäänkö uusi tuote täysimittaisella tuotekehityksellä vaiko nopealla tuotekehityksellä, tärkeää on varmistaa että kehitettävä tuote on yrityksen strategian mukainen ja todennäköisesti parantaa yrityksen kokonaistuottavuutta. Business case analyysi arvioi uuden tuoteidean liiketoiminnallista arvoa. Markkina-analyysi tuottaa yleisen markkinapotentiaaliarvion business case analyysiin ja toimii näin pohjana odotetuille myyntivolyymeille ja -hinnoille. Uuden tuotteen arvioitua liikevaihto verrataan tuotteen oletettuihin elinkaarikustannuksiin, ja tämän pohjalta koostetaan taloudellinen analyysi, joka havainnollistaa uuden tuoteidean attraktiivisuutta valituin taloudellisin tunnusluvuin. Tuoteportfolio tason business case metodologiaa ei kuitenkaan ole saatavilla, ja tämä tutkimus pyrkii täydentämään tätä puutetta. Tämä diplomityö on eksploratiivinen ja kvalitatiivinen case-tutkimus, jossa on konstruktiivinen ote. Tutkimustulokset sisältävät konseptin taloudellisten tunnuslukujen laskemiselle uudelle tuotenimikkeelle siten, että portfoliotason muutokset myynnissä otetaan huomioon. Kehitetty konsepti pyrkii olemaan hyödynnettävissä niin NPD- kuin RaDe-kontekstissa. Konseptin ydin on uuden myyntinimikkeen vaikutuksenalaisena olevien nimikkeiden nettokassavirtojen vertailu kahden skenaarion välillä. Ensimmäisessä skenaariossa vaikutuksenalaisille nimikkeille lasketaan nettokassavirrat uuden nimikkeen elinkaaren yli oletuksella, ettei uutta nimikettä tuoda ollenkaan portfolioon. Toisessa skenaariossa vaikutuksenalaisille myyntinimikkeille lasketaan nettokassavirrat huomioiden uuden tuotteen todennäköinen vaikutus näiden nimikkeiden myyntiin. Nettokassavirtojen erot näiden skenaarioiden välillä vähennetään tai lisätään kassavirtana vastaavalle ajanjaksolle, kun lasketaan nettokassavirtoihin perustuvia tunnuslukuja uudelle nimikkeelle. Lisäksi tutkimus tarjoaa ehdotuksen menetelmästä tuoteportfoliotason myyntisuunnitteluun ja myynnin seurantaan. Tässä menetelmässä myyntisuunnitelma koostuu myyntivolyymeistä ja -hinnoista yksittäisille myyntinimikkeille. Sekä tavoitteenasettelu että tapahtuneen myynnin seuranta tulisi tehdä volyymin ja hinnan tasolla siten että suunnittelun yksikkö on myyntitulo (volyymi * hinta). Tavoitellut ja toteutuneet myyntiluvut vieritetään edelleen ylemmille kaupallisen tuoteportfolion tasoille. Tämä mahdollistaa tavoitellun ja toteutuneen myynnin analysoinnin ja keskinäisen vertailun kullakin tuoteportfoliotasolla
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de, Lima Ottoni Frederico. "Product-Oriented Environmental Management: : A System for Product Environmental Performance Communication." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-55363.
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This project is an action research study which presents the development of a system for product environmental performance internal communication for the Atlas Copco Tools AB scenario. The study is based on the study of available literature upon product-oriented environmental management systems and the European Integrated Product Policy scheme. Through the analysis of the literature and the scenario in study, a concept for integrated product environmental performance communication from the product development process to the marketing was elaborated. This concept presents an integrated product environmental information process through performance assessment, documentation, evaluation and final external communication. The concept implementation, then focus the development of the internal communication system as a basis for product-oriented environmental considerations integration into the company’s processes and business strategy. The final system recommended included product environmental performance assessment, through specifically identified assessment tools, and documentation, through the creation of an easy accessible product-oriented information database. Finally, the system also suggests an Ecodesign cycle for product continuous improvement focused on environmental performance.
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SAUZA, BEDOLLA JOEL. "Efficiency improvement of product definition and verification through Product Lifecycle Management." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2510125.
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The correct and complete geometrical definition of a product is nowadays a critical activity for most companies. To solve this problem, ISO has launched the GPS, Geometrical Product Specifications and Verification, with the goal of consistently and completely describe the geometric characteristics of the products. With this project, it is possible to define a language of communication between the various stages of the product lifecycle based on "operators": these are an ordered set of mathematical operations used for the definition of the products. However, these theoretical and mathematical concepts require a level of detail and completeness of the information hardly used in usual industrial activities. Consequently in industrial practice the definition and verification of products appears to be a slow process, error-prone and difficult to control.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the activity of managing the company's products throughout their lifecycle in the most efficient way. PLM describes the engineering aspects of the products, ensuring the integrity of product definition, the automatic update of the product information and then aiding the product to fulfil with international standards. Despite all these benefits, the concepts of PLM are not yet fully understood in industry and they are difficult to implement for SME’s.
A first objective of this research is to develop a model to depict and understand processes. This representation is used as a tool during the application of a case study of a whole set of a GPS standards for one type of tolerance. This procedure allows the introduction of the GPS principles and facilitates its implementation within a PLM process.
Until now, PLM is presented on isolated aspects without the necessary holistic approach. Furthermore, industry needs people able to operate in PLM context, professional profiles that are not common on the market. There is therefore an educational problem; besides the technical knowledge, the new profile of engineers must be also familiar with the PLM philosophy and instruments to work effectively in a team. With the aim of solving this problem, this thesis presents a PLM solution that gives the guidelines for a correct understanding of these topics.
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Ray, Christopher M. "Implementing a product lifecycle management solution." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2005. http://165.236.235.140/lib/CRay2005.pdf.
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Morshedzadeh, Iman. "Data Classification in Product Data Management." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för teknik och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-14651.
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This report is about the product data classification methodology that is useable for the Volvo Cars Engine (VCE) factory's production data, and can be implemented in the Teamcenter software. There are many data generated during the life cycle of each product, and companies try to manage these data with some product data management software. Data classification is a part of data management for most effective and efficient use of data. With surveys that were done in this project, items affecting the data classification have been found. Data, attributes, classification method, Volvo Cars Engine factory and Teamcenter as the product data management software, are items that are affected data classification. In this report, all of these items will be explained separately. With the knowledge obtained about the above items, in the Volvo Cars Engine factory, the suitable hierarchical classification method is described. After defining the classification method, this method has been implemented in the software at the last part of the report to show that this method is executable.
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Johansson, Mats. "Product Costing for Sawmill Business Management." Doctoral thesis, Växjö : Växjö University Press, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1566.
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Berander, Patrik. "Evolving prioritization for software product management /." Karlskrona : Deprtment of Systems and Software Engineering, School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2007. http://www.bth.se/fou/Forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/e68ddab28202b60dc125729f003936e0?OpenDocument.
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Gorschek, Tony. "Requirements engineering supporting technical product management /." Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2006. http://www.bth.se/fou/Forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/8b9d14ce365694b1c125714d0045ea0f?OpenDocument.
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Malvius, Diana. "Information Management for Complex Product Development." Licentiate thesis, Stockholm : Department of Machine Design, Royal Institute of Technology, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4466.
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Usanmaz, Gokhan. "End-of-life cycle product management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8736.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77).
Market leadership requires effective management of product life cycle, starting from the launch of a new product until its retirement. In this particular project, an exploratory study of business practices in the management of products in the decline phase and the eventual decision of product abandonment is conducted through surveys and interviews of senior executives from Fortune 500 companies, focusing mainly on food, networking equipment, medical devices, consumer electronics and retail industries. Actual names of the companies are not revealed for confidentiality reasons. Also, the implementations, assumptions and level of acceptance of decision support system (DSS) modules on product lifecycle management are analyzed. Finally, companies' business processes are compared and enhancements to current DSS systems are proposed.
by Gokhan Usanmaz.
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Hines, Erisa K. (Erisa Kimberly). "Lifecycle perspectives on product data management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34141.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-109).
Implementing a new IT system often requires the enterprise to transform in order to maximally leverage the capabilities generated by the new system. The challenge in using IT as an enabler to change arises from the need to synergistically redesign processes, develop and implement a solution using internal talent and external suppliers, and establish adoption by users. Product Data Management (PDM) technology represents a substantial portion of large industry IT investment over the last decade. The ability to manage and deliver product data throughout the lifecycle has become increasingly important to the aerospace enterprise as products become more complex, cost and development cycles shorten, and customer, partner, and supplier relationships evolve. Currently, the aerospace community does not have capability to provide traceability from requirements and design through field maintenance. While initially an attempt to understand the application of PDM in product development, what emerged was a study in how PDM affects and enables lean enterprise transformation. The selection, development, and deployment of PDM solutions were studied in the aerospace industry in order to enable better implementation decisions in varying complex environments. Organizational, technical, and cultural factors were considered as they contribute to a PDM's effectiveness. .
(cont.) A current-state observation of nine aerospace company sites highlights the difficulty in reaching the technology's full potential to deliver customer value. Data show that PDMs are being used primarily to manage design engineering data and are not tightly integrated with other business systems. The data also show a distinct difference between prime and supplier companies' spending on and capability of their respective data management systems. While the value of PDM to product development includes better data quality, traceability and transparency, value to the enterprise is also found beyond the traditional role of PDM. Looking horizontally across the lifecycle and vertically through the hierarchical relationships, PDM provides opportunities for organizational and process change and stakeholder involvement, both important tenets for evolving into a lean enterprise. This conclusion is supported by both the site interviews and the two case studies
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Norvell, Joakim. "Statistical forecasting and product portfolio management." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för matematik och matematisk statistik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-116866.
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For a company to stay profitable and be competitive, the customer satisfaction must be very high. This means that the company must provide the right item at the right place at the right time, or the customer may bring its business to the competitor. But these factors bring uncertainty for the company in the supply chain of when, what and how much of the item to produce and distribute. For reducing this uncertainty and for making better plans for future demand, some sort of forecasting method must be provided. A forecast can however be statistically based and also completed with a judgmental knowledge if the statistics are not sufficient. This thesis has been done in cooperation with the Sales and Operations (S&OP) department at Sandvik Mining Rock Tools in Sandviken, where a statistical forecast is currently used in combination with manual changes from sales. The forecasts are used as base for planning inventory levels and making production plans and are created by looking at the history of sales. This is done in order to meet market expectations and continuously be in sync with market fluctuations. The purpose with this thesis has been to study the item- customer combination demand and the statistical forecasting process that is currently used at the S&OP department. One problem when creating forecast is how to forecast irregular demand accurately. This thesis has therefore been examining the history of sales too see in what extent irregular demand exists and how it can be treated. The result is a basic tool for mapping customers' demand behavior, where the behavior is decomposed into average monthly demand and volatility. Another result is that history of sales can get decomposed into Volatility, Volume, Value, Number of sales and Sales interval for better analysis. These variables can also be considered whenever analyzing and forecasting irregular demand. A third result is a classification of time series working as a guideline if demand should be statistically or judgmentally forecasted or being event based. The study analyzed 36 months history of sales for 56 850 time series of item- customer specific demand. The findings were that customers should have at least one year of continuous sales before the demand can be entirely statistically forecasted. The limits for demand to even be forecasted, the history of sales should at least occur every third month in average and contain at least six sales. Then the demand is defined as irregular and the forecast method is set to judgmental forecasting, which can be forecasted using statistical methods with manual adjustments. The results showed that the class of irregular demand represents approximately 70 percent in the aspect of revenue and therefore requires attention.För att ett företag ska kunna vara lönsamt och konkurrenskraftigt måste kundnöjdheten vara mycket hög. Detta betyder att ett företag måste kunna förse rätt produkt i rätt tid på rätt plats, annars kommer kunden troligtvis att vända sig till konkurrenten. Men dessa faktorer kommer med osäkerhet för företaget i försörjningskedjan i när, vad och hur mycket av produkten de ska producera och distribuera. För att minska osäkerheten och för att planera bättre för framtida efterfrågan, måste någon typ av prognos upprättas. En prognos kan vara baserad på statistiska metoder men också kompletterad med subjektiv marknadsinformation om statistiken inte är tillräcklig. Studien som denna rapport beskriver är gjord i samarbete med Sales och Operations- avdelning (S&OP) på Sandvik Mining Rock Tools i Sandviken. Där används statistiska prognoser i kombination med manuella förändringar av säljare samt regionala planerare som bas för planering av lagernivåer och produktion. Detta gör man för att möta marknadens efterfråga och för att kontinuerligt vara uppdaterad med marknadens variationer. Syftet med detta arbete har varit att studera kunders efterfrågan av produkt- kund kombination och den metod som används vid statistiska prognoser hos S&OP- avdelningen. Ett problem som finns när man vill skapa prognoser är hur man ska prognostisera oregelbunden försäljning korrekt. Detta arbete har därför analyserat historisk försäljning för att se i vilken utsträckning oregelbunden efterfrågan finns och hur den kan hanteras. Resultatet är ett enkelt verktyg för att kunna kartlägga kunders köpbeteende. Ett till resultat är att historisk försäljning kan bli uppdelat i Volatilitet, Volym, Värde, Antalet köptillfällen och Tidsintervallet mellan köptillfällena. Dessa variabler kan även tas till hänsyn när man analyserar och prognostiserar oregelbunden försäljning. Ett tredje resultat är en klassificering av tidsserier som kan fungera som riktmärken om efterfrågan ska vara statistisk eller manuellt prognostiserade eller inte bör ha en prognos över huvud taget. Denna studie analyserade 36 månaders historik för 56 850 tidsserier av försäljning per produkt- kund kombination. Resultaten var att en kund bör ha åtminstone ett år av kontinuerlig efterfrågan innan man kan ha en prognos med statistiska modeller. Gränsen för att ens ha en prognos är att efterfrågan bör återkomma var tredje månad i genomsnitt och ha en historik av åtminstone sex försäljningstillfällen. Då klassificeras efterfrågan som oregelbunden och prognosen kan vara baserad på statistiska metoder men med manuella ändringar. I resultatet framkom det att oregelbunden efterfrågan representerar cirka 70 procent i avseende på intäkter och kräver således mycket uppmärksamhet.
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Kangas, N. (Nikolaus). "Product data management in rapid productization." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201306071576.
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Increasingly competitive market environment today forces companies to continuously create new products to serve the widening range of customer’s needs. To be able to survive and success, companies need to develop new products faster while being cost-effective. Configurable products provide a method of increasing product variety while maintaining the economies of scale. Well executed product data management is a crucial enabler of product development processes with constant pressure to shorten time to market. This is especially true when the product is configurable with modular product structure. The product structure of the product needs to be maintained so that variety possibilities of the product are clear and different stakeholders have relevant visibility of the structure available. The domain of this study is product variety creation using rapid productization. Rapid productization refers to a concept, where company decides to rapidly create a new product in response to customer request which cannot be fulfilled with the current product portfolio. Productization itself is a process, where ambiguous solution to the customer problem or need is encapsulated to a defined, standardized and repeatable product. Typically rapid productization is executed by adding something new to the existing product. Rapidly productized products are not necessarily added to the product portfolio. The purpose of this study is to find out what the product data management needs are in rapid productization cases. The research was conducted as a case study and three different case companies were used as a data source. Two companies were large-scale enterprises and one company was medium size enterprise. All case companies had modular product structure and two of them had a configurable product. Based on existing literature, it can be concluded that product data management needs in the productization process are dependent on product structure and a customer order point of the product. Also, product data needs in rapid productization cases are dependent on how the module added in rapid productization interacts with the existing product. If the added component has no integration with the existing product, the stakeholders concerned about the product data are sourcing and the delivery of the product. If the added module has more interaction with the existing product, research and development is a crucial stakeholder and product data need are more or less similar to the normal productization processKiristyvä kilpailu ja jatkuva asiakastarpeiden kasvu aiheuttaa yrityksille painetta laajentaa tuoteportfoliota yhä kiihtyvällä tahdilla. Kyky kehittää ja tuottaa uusia tuotteita nopeasti ja kustannustehokkaasti on elinehto yritysten menestymiselle. Yksi kustannustehokas tapa tuottaa laaja tuoteportfolio on konfiguroitavat tuotteet. Hyvin toteutettu tuotetiedon hallinta on toiminnan perusedellytys, kun tuotekehitykselle asetetaan tehokkuus- ja aikavaatimuksia. Erityisen tärkeää tuotetiedon hallinta on konfiguroitavien tuotteiden kehityksessä. Konfiguroitava tuote vaatii tuoterakenteen kuvauksen, joka määrittää eri moduulien yhdistelymahdollisuudet ja toiminnallisuudet. Lisäksi eri sidosryhmillä tulee olla oma näkymänsä tuoterakenteeseen. Tässä työssä tutkitaan tuotteen variointia nopean tuotteistamisen tapauksissa. Tuotteistaminen tarkoittaa prosessia, jossa epämääräinen idea asiakkaan ongelman tai tarpeen ratkaisemiseksi paketoidaan tarkkaan määritellyksi, standardoiduksi ja toistettavaksi tuotteeksi. Nopealla tuotteistamisella viitataan tilanteeseen, jossa yritys luo nopeasti uuden tuotteen sellaisen asiakasvaatimuksen seurauksena, jota ei nykyisellä tuoteportfoliolla pystytä toteuttamaan. Tyypillisesti nopea tuotteistaminen toteutetaan lisäämällä jotain uutta portfoliossa olevaan tuotteeseen. Nopeasti tuotteistettuja tuotteita ei kuitenkaan välttämättä lisätä yrityksen tuoteportfolioon. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää tuotetiedon hallintaa nopean tuotteistamisen tapauksissa. Tutkimus on toteutettu tapaustutkimuksena, jossa tarkasteltavia yrityksiä oli kolme kappaletta. Tutkimuksen kohteena olevista yrityksistä kaksi oli suuryrityksiä, ja yksi keskisuuri yritys. Kaikkien yritysten tuotteet olivat modulaarisia, ja kahdella yrityksellä tuote oli konfiguroitava. Aiemmin kirjoitetun kirjallisuuden perusteella voidaan sanoa, että tuotetiedon hallinnan vaatimukset tuotteistuksessa riippuvat tuotteen modulaarisuudesta ja asiakastilauspisteestä. Nopean tuotteistamisen tapauksissa on tuotetiedon hallinnan näkökulmasta olennaista se, miten olemassa olevaan tuotteeseen lisätty moduuli vaikuttaa tuotteeseen. Jos lisätyllä moduulilla ei ole minkäänlaista vuorovaikutusta tuotteeseen, on tuotetiedon kannalta olennaista määrittää miten lisättävä moduuli hankitaan ja miten se toimitetaan. Jos lisättävä moduuli on vuorovaikutuksissa tuotteen kanssa, vaatii nopea tuotteistaminen myös tuotekehityksen osallistumista, ja myös tuotetietovaatimukset ovat samantyyppiset kuin normaalissa tuotteistusprosessissa
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Kovalenko, Darya, and Дар'я Юріївна Коваленко. "It product comparison for warehouse management." Thesis, National Aviation University, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/50512.
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1. Womack, J., & Jones, D. (1996).- Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation" ( edition of 2018 years).
2. Heizer, J., & Render, B. (1999). Operations management. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall. Chicago (Author-Date, 11th ed.).
3. Inmon, Bill (1992). Building the Data WarehouseWarehouse management software, or WMS, is an automated system, designated to manage the mundane operations of warehouse. Warehouse management software, also may be able to refer as warehouse management system, has built-in programs being enabled business to manage various tasks from centralized location. Warehouse Management Software has the goal of optimization warehouse center management. Furthermore, facilitation the processes of planning, controlling and utilization of available resources to move and store finished products and materials.
Програмне забезпечення для управління складом (WMS) - це автоматизована система, призначена для управління буденними операціями складу. Програмне забезпечення для управління складами, яке також може називатися системою управління складом, має вбудовані програми, що дозволяють бізнесу керувати різними завданнями з централізованого розташування. Програма управління складами має на меті оптимізацію управління складським центром. Крім того, полегшення процесів планування, контролю та використання наявних ресурсів для переміщення та зберігання готової продукції та матеріалів.
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Zhu, Qingyun. "Product Deletion and Supply Chain Management." Digital WPI, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/527.
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One of the most significant changes in the evolution of modern business management is that organizations no longer compete as individual entities in the market, but as interlocking supply chains. Markets are no longer simply trading desks but dynamic ecosystems where people, organizations and the environment interact. Products and associated materials and resources are links that bridge supply chains from upstream (sourcing and manufacturing) to downstream (delivering and consuming). The lifecycle of a product plays a critical role in supply chains. Supply chains may be composed by, designed around, and modified for products. Product-related issues greatly impact supply chains. Existing studies have advanced product management and product lifecycle management literature through dimensions of product innovation, product growth, product line extensions, product efficiencies, and product acquisition. Product deletion, rationalization, or reduction research is limited but is a critical issue for many reasons. Sustainability is an important reason for this managerial decision. This study, grounded from multiple literature streams in both marketing and supply chain fields, identified relations and propositions to form a firm-level analysis on the role of supply chains in organizational product deletion decisions. Interviews, observational and archival data from international companies (i.e.: Australia, China, India, and Iran) contributed to the empirical support as case studies through a grounded theory approach. Bayesian analysis, an underused empirical analysis tool, was utilized to provide insights into this underdeveloped research stream; and its relationship to qualitative research enhances broader methodological understanding. Gibbs sampler and reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation were used for Bayesian analysis based on collected data. The integrative findings are exploratory but provide insights for a number of research propositions.
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MARTINEZ, GOMEZ JAVIER MAURICIO. "Visualization Model for Product Lifecycle Management." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2529893.
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Nowadays, new business strategies as the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are implemented by
manufacturing industries in order to design and build better quality products more effectively. The PLM
contributes to improve the product development process through the efficient administration of all
technical information involved. It operates through multiple software solutions and incorporates all the
information about the product. Up to now most of companies only integrate information from
CAD/CAM/CAE software into a database managed from a PDM system (Product Data Management). As
a matter of fact this way of proceding provides better results for companies, such as time/cost reduction
of product production, Nevertheless important questions raise: are these the products that people really
need? Are these products developed taking into account the final user's viewpoint? Are them sustainable
for the community and the environment? Are social, economical, environmental issues taken into
consideration? The answer is usually 'no'. We must remember that it is important to build the product in a
correct way but it is even more important to build 'the right' product.
The Human Centred Design (HCD) is a methodological approach which aims to develop products that
are easy to use, to understand, and worry-free for the users. The HCD process helps to promote
innovation that starts within the community and promotes the concept of “universal design” to enable
users' participation during the entire product's lifecycle.
Accordingly, it is crucial to combine the benefits of a business strategy, as the PLM, with the advantages
of a design social strategy, as HCD. This work shows a model to incorporate HCD into PLM based on
different methodological approaches, especially those related with the role of Industrial Designer (‘Design
for X’). The model identifies what is done (process areas and activities), when it is done (workflows), who
does what (roles - skills) and how it can be done better (methods and tools) mainly from a designer's
perspective.
With the support of Master of Science students, some case studies have been developed for each single
product lifecycle process' area in order to validate the model. These case studies evaluate the
convenience of the model as processes' design tool and ensured that the information collected from the
users can be deployed in a PLM system. The work has been mainly focused in the process areas of
Requirements Management, Product Design, Product Testing and Product Configuration and Change
Management.
The model elaborated through this work has proven to be a convenient tool for the identification of user's
issues, aims and solutions in order to make on-going improvements to business processes involving the
users themselves. It also applies the principles of the HCD to the PLM promoting the design process and
offering a way to build products based on the physical and cognitive characteristics of human beings.
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Byeon, Namseog. "New product development : a case study of product platform." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10537.
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Newey, Lance R. "Knowledge exploitation capabilities and value creation in interorganizational new product development /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18928.pdf.
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Orfi, Nihal Mohamed Sherif. "Harnessing Product Complexity: An Integrative Approach." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77292.
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In today's market, companies are faced with pressure to increase variety in product offerings. While increasing variety can help increase market share and sales growth, the costs of doing so can be significant. Ultimately, variety causes complexity in products and processes to soar, which negatively impacts product development, quality, production scheduling, efficiency and more. Product variety is just one common cause of product complexity, a topic that several researchers have tackled with several sources of product complexity now identified. However, even with such progress, product complexity continues to be a theoretical concept, making it difficult for companies to fully implement advances and fully manage product complexity.
More and more companies are relying on product family design to handle product variety. Broadly, a product family can be defined as a group of products sharing common elements. The advantages for companies using product family strategies can be significant: they enable efficient derivation of product variants, reduce inventory and handling costs, as well as setup and retooling time. The design challenge however, is to select the product platform to generate a variety of products with minimum deviation from individual requirements. Accordingly, the structure of product families makes designing and evaluating them a challenging process. In order to fully embrace the relationships between variety, product complexity, and product families an understanding of product complexity causes and impacts is essential.
This research begins by introducing four main dimensions of product complexity within the context of a generalized definition. Product complexity indicators suitable in product design, development and production are derived. By establishing measurements for the identified indicators and using clustering techniques, a complexity evaluation approach for product family designs is also developed in this research. The evaluation approach is also applied on a component basis, to identify Critical Components that are main sources and contributors of complexity within product families. By standardizing identified Critical Components, product complexity levels and associated costs can be managed. A case application of three product families from a tire manufacturing company is used to verify that this research approach is suitable for evaluating and managing product complexity in product families.Ph. D.
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Levitt, Benjamin (Benjamin P. ). "Product service transformation in product-centric firms." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90716.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97).
In slow or no-growth economies, firms cannot rely solely on recurring business from large, core customers who often delay or cancel capital investments in belt-tightening times. To achieve growth, firms must lever domain knowledge to expand business markets to find new customers. A core method to accomplish this expansion is through service models that can provide recurring revenues without as much up-front investment for customers. However, in a product-centric firm, the process of transforming a product into a service can be complex, and is the motivation for this research. No other complete explanation of this process has been published to date. The goal of researching this process is to give direction to managers who are considering transforming a product into service. The research led to building a service model using the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) Radar System as its subject. The CASA Radar System is an X-Band Phased-Array Radar used for weather forecasting and environmental warning, led by University of Massachusetts with the assistance from several universities and industry partners. The radar system provides capabilities that did not exist previously in larger and less price effective systems, but was only available to be acquired directly, for upwards of $600 million. The CASA model sought to show how transforming the radar system from a product to a service could create value for the UMASS led team by selling more systems in a new service model to new customers, including weather-sensing firms and non-profits that want access to the CASA Radar System and would even pay for it, but were unable to support its standard capital costs.
by Benjamin Levitt.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Cedergren, Stefan. "Performance in Product Development - The Case of Complex Products." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-11215.
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This research addresses the concept of performance in the development of complex products. More specifically, its aim is to study how performance is perceived and measured within large global companies, and how performance measurement systems can be designed in a systematic way. The exploratory results regard how performance is currently perceived and measured. It is argued that performance measurements are focused on the later stages of the development of complex products, thus making it difficult to perform changes during the development. The focus is on lagging rather than leading indicators of performance, hence it is concluded that focus is on reporting the result rather than the causes of the result. In line with these findings is the weak link between what managers perceive as success factors and what is measured, the perception of performance being influenced by what is measured, rather than the reverse. The prescriptive results focus on the development of models and frameworks to be used during the development of complex products. A general method for developing performance indicators is presented. The concept of Products in Development is proposed, this making it possible to monitor how value is created during the development of a product. Both these models aim at complementing the currently used performance measurement system in order to support effective and efficient development of complex products. The method used in this research is mainly focused around the collection of qualitative data through a focused group interview, multiple case studies,and industrial reference-group seminars. A survey has also been used to complement the qualitative with quantitative data. The use of various research methods has made it possible to triangulate the data, thus strengthening the validity of the findings.
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Şen, Alper Özcan A. Can. "Application Of Grounded Theory For Concept Analysis In New Product Development Processes/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2006. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezler/master/endustriurunleritasarimi/T000377.pdf.
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Ozkan, Gulru F. "Essays on knowledge management strategies in new product development." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28282.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.Committee Chair: Cheryl Gaimon; Committee Co-Chair: Stylianos Kavadias; Committee Member: Marco Ceccagnoli; Committee Member: Pinar Keskinocak; Committee Member: Vinod Singhal.
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Holzbaur, Ulrich D. "Managing product development." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 2, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/450.
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Published ArticleAny economy is based on the production and consumption of material or immaterial goods. Development is the process that creates a concise concept of a product. To develop good products within a given frame of time and resources is one of the most challenging and most important tasks within an economy. We state the common features within development project management for several different kinds of products. Most general issues are the model transformation and decision making process at phase transitions.
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Gollner, Mark, and n/a. "Addressing complexity in product design : guidelines for product designers." University of Otago. Department of Design Studies, 2005. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070405.154020.
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Modern product design projects are often challenged by their interdisciplinary nature, increasing product complexity and time pressure. The challenge for product designers is to recall all relevant design aspects that are potentially applicable and important for the product to be designed at the right time. The negligence of certain design aspects may result in increased development costs and in inferior products. A recommended way to handle complexity in the design process is to work systematically, with checklists and guidelines offering a possibility to support product designers in this task. However, design guidelines that provide a comprehensive and generically content that support product designers holistically in their design projects are not readily available. Moreover, in-depth evaluations of the role, use, usefulness and usability of design guidelines are quite rare in the current literature.
Therefore, the research study presented in this thesis sought to accomplish two tasks: the generation of a comprehensive set of generic and practically aimed product design guidelines in a paper-copy format that holistically supports product designers in their often complex design projects; and the evaluation of these generated design guidelines with the purpose of determining their role, use, usefulness and usability for product designers.
A comprehensive and generically applicable set of product design guidelines in a ready-to-use paper-copy format that holistically provides in-depth information for the product design aspects that need to be considered during a design process was generated. Besides, a research study, using questionnaires and interviews, with product design students and professional product designers in New Zealand was carried out with the purpose of determining the role, use, usefulness and usability of the generated design guidelines for designers. As a consequence, valuable insights into the role of the guidelines as practitioners� design tool for professional designers and noteworthy findings about the role of the guidelines as educational tool for novice designers were obtained.
The findings suggested that the use of guidelines as a tool in the design process is generally not very prevalent due to the designers� lack of knowledge about the benefits, location and accessibility of useful product design guidelines. Furthermore, it has been found that the designers used the generated guidelines sporadically and driven by their interest or demand in the design aspects applicable to their projects. In terms of the guidelines� usefulness it has been identified that the guidelines evaluated were generically applicable to different projects and provided a specific in-depth content. The guidelines have also been found to be quite useful as educational, planning, management and evaluation tool for novice and professional designers.
However, in terms of the guidelines� usability, several problems were determined that made the generated guidelines too inefficient to be beneficial for the participants, especially for the professional designers. Accordingly, it has been concluded that a change of the guidelines� format into a digital interactive format, is likely to solve most of the identified problems and provide a useful and usable tool for product designers respectively.
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Wallmark, Toste Jawi. "Product architecture network : representing modular product families for mass customization /." View abstract or full-text, 2005. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?IEEM%202005%20WALLMA.
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Sullivan, John P. (John Patrick) 1960. "The relationship between organizational architecture, product architecture, and product complexity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9759.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, February 1999."November, 1988."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-90).
The aircraft gas turbine product architecture and manufacturing infrastructure are used to show the importance in the relationship between the organizational architecture and product architecture. The product complexity, organizational complexity and new product development costs are compared for three major aircraft gas turbine producers spanning the market from 2500 pounds to 100,000 pounds of thrust. It is found that organizational response to product complexity varies widely, resulting in a factor of 2 to 3 in both cycle time and cost for new product development, depending on the enterprise. A relationship between the product complexity and organizational complexity is established based on the documented product development procedures within these companies, and a proportionality is observed between the product complexity derived from the procedures and the expended resources required to develop new products.
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Fulkerson, Sarah (Sarah Hampton) 1969, and Anna 1969 Halpern-Lande. "Product design and innovation : exploring breakthrough products (breakthroughs : a method and a madness)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9619.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.Zip disk formatted for Macintosh.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 31-33).
This paper has been an iterative rather than a breakthrough process. we approached the topic of product design and innovation with notions of what it meant and how good designs were created. our purpose here has been to provide some understanding of the complexity of the issues surrounding breakthrough product designs. we redefine a variety of terms that are used liberally in the field to provide some sort of precise understanding of our perspective. This thesis is not meant to be read in the traditional paper format rather, it has digital collateral
by Sarah Fulkerson and Anna Halpern-Lande.
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Izadpanah, Seyed Hamedreza. "Méthode d'évolution de modèles produits dans les sytèmes PLM." Thesis, Grenoble, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011GRENI077/document.
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Le système PLM est l’un des outils stratégiques de l’entreprise. Ces systèmes sont sujets à des changements récurrents dans l’entreprise. Les évolutions organisationnelles, le changement de l’offre produit ou encore le remplacement de logiciels PLM peuvent déclencher l’évolution du système d’information PLM. Une des structures les plus importantes dans les systèmes PLM est le modèle du produit, autour duquel s’articule les informations et processus. C’est autour du modèle produit que se concentrent nos recherches. Les causes d’évolution des modèles produits sont des éléments signifiants qui différencient les étapes de la démarche à suivre. Les méthodes d’IDM sont utilisées afin de formaliser la transformation des modèles. En plus, cette démarche bénéfice d’un cadre de similarité spécialement développé pour la configuration de produit. Un exemple industriel est illustré et résolu en appliquant cette démarche. Il s’agit de l’évolution d’un système gérant les modèles spécifiques de produit vers un système qui est capable de construire et d’utiliser les modèles génériques de produit. Un outil informatique support à nos travaux est développé dans le cadre d'EclipsePLM systems are among the strategic components of enterprise’s information system architecture. These systems undergo frequent evolutions of enterprise. Organizational evolution or product offer variation as well as PLM application replacement may launch PLM systems’ evolution.One of the important structures in PLM systems is the product configuration, which organize and structure all product’s information and processes. Our research activities concern product model evolution. Reasons of product model evolution specify the appropriate methodology and necessary steps in order to handle it. MDE methods are used to formalize the model transformation process.Moreover, our methodology contains a specific similarity framework dedicated to product configuration. An industrial example was illustrated and resolved by this methodology. The problematic of this example is the migration of a system which manage only specific product configuration to a new system that is capable to construct and use generic models of product