Design and SourcingMore than half of the profitability of a product is baked into its formulation or design, yet product managers and design engineers select components primarily for form, fit, and function. Today, enterprises must also factor in spend, compliance, regional availability, and quality at design time to create more profitable and more competitive products. Unfortunately in most companies this critical data is in many disparate forms and spread across many information systems.
To help enterprises address the challenge of providing a complete view of necessary information for key decisions, Endeca has developed the Discovery for Design and Sourcing search application. This search-based approach to connecting to all necessary information is user-friendly, requires zero training, and enables discovery for key decision-making. Furthermore, our unique aggregation of part and supplier data, enabled with Guided Navigation® and preferential part identification is a breakthrough solution that can bring dramatic advantages in cost reduction, time-to-market, and risk mitigation to your supply chain initiatives. Principal features: Ability to integrate data across internal and external data sources
Endeca Discovery for Design and Sourcing leverages the most advanced information access technology platform, with the ability to aggregate structured and unstructured information from disparate data sources, classify, index and make available for unrestricted search and discovery. Guided Navigation to support part navigation
The challenges of part sourcing are complicated by inefficient data source navigation, hampering part identification and leading to many non-productive searches. With Endeca Discovery for Design and Sourcing, part selection is accelerated through the use of guided navigation, enabling engineers to follow a clear path to all parts that meet identified criteria, eliminating dead-end searches. Preferential Part Identification
Design Engineers can readily identify preferred part/supplier combinations for selection, without requiring additional data lookups or confirmations, and eliminating the iterative process of submitting selected parts lists to sourcing only to have them be returned for re-selection. This time and cost saving feature assures perfect alignment with corporate initiatives at all stages of the supply chain, and delivers a true, lasting competitive advantage in time to market. Dynamic Part Preference Update
Preference information can be retained in a common database that can be updated within the sourcing organization. This ability to identify preferences at any frequency enables a virtual perfect alignment between sourcing and engineering, allowing for the right parts to be selected from the preferred suppliers, every time. Rapid Time to Value
Enabling this solution is Endeca’s Information Access Platform (IAP) technology which delivers the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Sitting on top of the IAP is Endeca’s Discovery Framework. The Discovery Framework enables enterprises to quickly configure powerful decision tools for high value business challenges. Our framework enables rapid configuration of search applications – often in just minutes – that offer the highly inter¬active Guided Navigation user experience across a full range of structured and unstructured enterprise data. To learn more about Discovery for Design and Sourcing, contact us today.
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