• Customer Needs Management focuses on the capability to capture customer requirements and examine the ability to design and manufacture a product at a profitable price.
• Collaborative Product Design focuses on the interactive design process, sharing designs with the suppliers and team members, navigating to related information from the design, and importing design changes in an efficient and timely manner.
• Product Portfolio Management is used to monitor multiple product development programs with access to financials, milestone tracking, risk, etc.
• Product Data Management focuses on managing and controlling the engineering data through engineering change management, full configuration control, and navigation and searching of product structure information.
• Direct Materials Sourcing focuses on the sourcing process with Request for Quotation (RFQ), bid analysis, and sharing of drawings.

NetIDEAS helps our customers understand the broad and challenging PLM picture (“Think Big…”) but starts them small and well focused (“Start Small…”), which provides the foundation leading towards the full PLM solution with enterprise-wide benefits (“Scale Instantly”). This PLM building-block approach has proven to be invaluable for our customers.