CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 July 2007
Product News
CONTACT Software and IDS Scheer Agree Upon Partnership in the Area of Product Lifecycle Management
CONTACT Software, focussed on PDM/PLM solutions, and IDS Scheer, a provider of software and consultation for business process management, cooperate on Product Lifecycle management (PLM). The partnership aims to support discrete manufacturers and automotive suppliers in defining and implementing a PLM strategy. This includes strategic consulting, requirements management and specification work, system implementation and change management. The co-operation focuses on discrete manufacturers and automotive suppliers. Topics such as Compliance, Distributed Product Development, Multi CAD environments or Project Management mean significant challenges for such companies. At the same time theses topics offer great potential to stay ahead of the worldwide competition by means of reduced time-to-market and higher process reliability. The combination of excellent Best Practice know-how with CIM DATABASE as a leading solution platform helps customers to efficiently convert innovative ideas into outstanding products.
"CONTACT´s PLM solutions and services are an optimal complement to our own product range of strategic and business process consulting services", says Stephan Kuka, Manager Business Development Automotive at IDS Scheer. "Co-operation with customers and suppliers places very complex requirements on data and process management, which are very well covered by the CIM DATABASE platform. On top of that, CDB features powerful tools e.g., for collaborative project management, CAD data exchange and the synchronisation with ERP systems such as SAP."
"IDS Scheer distinguishes long-standing, excellent know-how in the evaluation and optimization of business processes, and has gained excellent reputation particularly in the SAP® domain with its ARIS Platform" states Karl Heinz Zachries, managing director of CONTACT. "The partnership allows us to offer our customers the complete range from strategy and business process consulting up to actual Product Lifecycle Management solutions."
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