Manufacturing

Top manufacturing firms build success with Planview

Driven by increased competitive pressures and an ever-shrinking time to market, today's manufacturing firms need to improve performance, drive innovation, and manage complex supply chain challenges. Planview's solutions for the manufacturing industry dynamically manage money and resources to support high-value initiatives and drive better investment decisions. As the leading provider of portfolio management solutions, Planview's software and best practices reduce costs, improves efficiency, and helps manufacturing organizations gain a competitive advantage in today's dynamic marketplace.

For more than 15 years, market-leading manufacturers have leveraged Planview's portfolio management solutions. Planview manufacturing customers include British American Tobacco, RJ Reynolds, Volkswagen, and Xerox.

Support New Product Development

Identify and support the initiatives that will deliver the greatest value to the organization. Drive new product development by aligning resources, managing budgets, and improving investment decisions across the enterprise. Once investments are selected, decrease time-to-market by dynamically managing money and resources as efficiently as possible. The result is greater ROI, an increased success rate, and most importantly, a competitive edge.

Efficiently Manage Resources

Increase the capital-to-labor ratio in operations by managing internal and external resources more efficiently. Effectively assign work, develop a skills pipeline, develop staff areas of interest, and keep staff productive. Determine when it is more cost effective to leverage external resources, and manage and report on those outsourced IT services. Planview's solutions deliver the right person to the right job at the right time — for the right price.

Increase Supply Chain Agility

Dynamically manage the technology necessary to make the digital supply chain a reality. Understand the relationships between projects, assets, applications, and services, and support supply chain initiatives while remaining agile and open to change. By strengthening supply chain technology, manufacturers can reduce inventory, cut costs, and increase profitability.

Reduce IT Spending and Drive Innovation

Planview's portfolio management solutions manage all IT spending - including the 70-80% typically allocated to "keep the lights on" sustaining operations – with a single platform. By understanding and reducing IT spending, it is then possible to shift resources to revenue-generating, innovative initiatives.