Variant management | A strategic decision
In the everyday life of manufacturing companies, classic variant management still mainly takes place in the minds of long-serving employees. Often enough, the good old Excel lists are the only tool for storing and managing valuable product, variant and dependency knowledge – including the risk of inconsistencies and redundancies. Increasingly demanding customer and market expectations quickly push such a system to its limits: Know-how is not scalable, can only be transferred with great effort and is inaccessible if experienced knowledge carriers are not available.
The strategic deficit jeopardizes business success in several respects. On the one hand, it will hardly be possible to reap the full benefits of the company’s wealth of knowledge on this basis. On the other hand, there is a risk of losing employees and customers from generations X and Y. This is because digital natives are not only used to handling data and information with confidence, they also demand it.
Successful digital variant management with SAE
To prevent this from happening in the first place, SAE supports you with a holistic variant management solution to transfer existing data into an efficient organization system and fully exploit its potential.
An experienced SAE project team is at your side during the transformation process and supports you with
– personal support during and after system implementation,
– many years of expertise in variant management & product standardization
– CTO (configure to order) & ETO (engineer to order) strategies
– comprehensive training for future users and
– system adaptation to your company processes.
