FALL 2013 RELEASESEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Steve Chalgren, VP Product Management & Strategy

Kathy Davies, Product Manager

Paul Welch, Product Manager

Roy Stafford, Product Manager

AGENDA

• Introductions• Fall 2013 Product Previews

API Supply Chain Exchange Project Collaboration Demand Analysis

• How to get more information• Questions

FALL 2013 PRODUCTS

• API

• Supply Chain Exchange

• Project Management

• Cost Analysis

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API)

WHAT DOES IT DO?

Provides the ability to develop lightweight and flexible programmatic integrations

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Samples:• ERP Integration

• Cost Data• Inventory Data

• CRM Integration• SKU’s automatically added to PLM

• CAD Integration• Custom integrations• Add functionality to existing integrations

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE

• Eliminates the manual ‘push’ of data amongst systems

Business Impact: TTM, Product Quality

• Improved organizational communication, collaboration, etc.

Business Impact: TTM

Leverage Your PLM Investment!

SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE

Technical

ARCHITECTURE

• RESTful (REpresentational State Transfer)

• Authentication: session ID

• Protocol: Secure, encrypted https protocol

• Data Transport: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

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SUPPORTED CAPABILITY

• Secure Authentication

• Items – Specs, BOM, Sourcing, Files, etc. Read Create Modify Delete

• Additional Arena objects in future releases

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EXAMPLE – CREATE AN ITEM

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url

Authentication

Data

Request

WANT MORE?

October 1st, 2013:

Supply Chain Exchange

SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE

• Multi-tiered supplier collaboration

• Invite unlimited suppliers to view, approve and comment on build packages

• Low cost, low overhead approach to supplier collaboration

OEM

Other Suppliers

Contract Manufacturer

SupplierA

SupplierC

SupplierB

SupplierD

SupplierE

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE

• Ground Breaking - Easily involve your Supplier’s Supplier…End Tier

Business Impact: Competitive advantage to

include your entire supply chain

• More Timely Decision Making – all the way to the manuf. Floor

Business Impact: Less scrap & rework

• Better feedback from Supply Chain

Business Impact: DFM, Fewer Errors

affecting TTM, Product Cost & Quality

OEM

Other Suppliers

Contract Manufacturer

SupplierA

SupplierC

SupplierB

SupplierD

SupplierE

Leverage Your PLM Investment!

SAMPLE USE CASES

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OEM

Other Suppliers

Contract Manufacturer

SupplierA

SupplierC

SupplierB

SupplierD

SupplierE

• Procurement for quoting

Send a build package

Receive a quote

• Collaborate with CM during NPI

DFM, DFQ

• Many OEMs include CM in change

Approval on ECOs

Implementation tracking

SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE

Demonstration

WANT MORE?

October 2nd, 2013:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• High level project management in the context of the product record

• Collaborate globally with easy to use projects:

Use projects for new product introductions

Detailed manufacturing and engineering efforts

Targeted quality initiatives

• See real time product record information in the context of your schedule for accurate assessment of project progress

• Evaluate metrics for projects across your workspace with comprehensive reporting to maximize company efficiency.

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WHY SHOULD YOU CARE

• Gives Mgmt Team the information necessary to make better strategic decisions

Business Impact: Invest in appropriate projects early, kill those that

are not

• Better visibility into Project Status’s for everybody involved – not just PMs

Business Impact: Affects TTM – projects completed on-time, on-

budget

• Less time in administrative tasks: meetings (CCBs), emails, chasing information, etc.

Business Impact: Affects TTM – projects completed on-time, on-

budget

Leverage Your PLM Investment!

SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE

Demonstration

WANT MORE?

October 8th, 2013:

COST ANALYSIS

CUSTOMER PROBLEM

• No easy way to do forecast based planning

• Export BOM data from Arena – AML, cost

• Spend many hours in Excel doing merge and rollup across multiple BOMs

• Results in: Poor visibility into material requirements

Disadvantage when negotiating component prices

Contract Manufacturer often has a better picture on volume

Money left on the table

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COST ANALYSIS

• Enter a forecast against multiple product BOMs

• Calculate total demand for required materials

• Aggregates across multiple products or product lines

• Include cost and sourcing information from Arena

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=Total Materials Demand

Forecast Qty.

Product BOM

Product BOM +n

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE

• Reduction in Direct Material Spend

Business Impact: Product Cost reduction and MBO incentives realized!

• You’re living in Excel for forecasting

Business Impact: Significant reduction in manual effort to build and maintain

Future forecasting: Better predictability for negotiating future demand

• Take control back from your CM!

Business Impact: Affects Product Costs

Leverage Your PLM Investment!

SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE

Demonstration

TYPICAL USE-CASE

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Product 1

Forecast

Product 3Product 2

Period Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Product 1 100,000 100,000 150,000 200,000

Product 2 50,000 80,000 100,000 120,000

Product 3 80,000 120,000 150,000 200,000

CALCULATE TOTAL MATERIAL DEMAND

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Qty. 4 Qty. 2 Qty. 1

Total Demand for Capacitor P/N 1001

Product 1 Product 3Product 2

Capacitor P/N 1001

Qty 4* Forecast Qty 2 * Forecast

Qty 1 * Forecast

++

=

Total 3.45M Pieces Required

Qty used per assembly

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October 2nd, 2013:

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

• Training:

• Topic Specific Webinars: October 1st: API

October 2nd: Supply Chain Exchange & Cost Analysis

October 8th: Project Management

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