Sourcing

Buyers are often consulted once Engineering and Costing have already determined their program needs, yet it’s difficult to include everyone in the exchanges and keep them traceable. Siloed systems can make it challenging to aggregate data and draw meaningful conclusions. 3D and AI technologies on the collaborative 3DEXPERIENCE platform allow stakeholders to access and act on the same information in real time, ensuring traceability. Swiftly address important concerns, such as discrepancies between historical costs and targets, lead times, and potential engineering risks.

• Accelerate the sourcing process and minimize the cost of trade-offs between program margins and time-to-market.
• Improve collaboration between Engineering, Procurement, Quality and other stakeholders of the sourcing process. This approach to sourcing as a native collaborative process is made possible by the access of all stakeholders to a dynamic view of the latest technical design, sourcing progress, interactions with suppliers, RFQ responses and decisions, enabling each party to be proactive and to shorten the sourcing cycle.