The global medical device company moved from a legacy PLM solution into SAP PLM. The LeverX Integrated Process Solution (IPS) helped them easily migrate and rebuild their processes and deploy these inside SAP.
Customer
Global medical device company and leader in new product development and medical education in orthopedics.
Challenge
The global medical device company moved from a legacy PLM solution into SAP PLM. The project goal was to save time and money, while easily managing product development changes and workflow in SAP PLM.
Solution
The LeverX IPS helped them easily migrate and rebuild their processes and deploy these inside SAP.
Project Scope
Saving time and money while being user-friendly was a key business driver in the decision to implement IPS. IPS is a user-friendly workflow add-on to SAP that allows businesses to build, modify, and deploy a wide variety of workflows in SAP with many benefits. IPS has brought flexibility and agility into SAP for process integration and workflow.
Before implementing IPS, you would have to be a skilled programmer to create workflow, which is not easy to change once set up. IPS has allowed the client to make quick automated changes (within an hour) for things such as approvals, delivery, etc. instead of changing these things manually, which can take weeks.
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Solution Benefits
Here are the key benefits this medical device company has achieved with IPS from a user’s perspective:
- Allows for drag & drop without having to manually configure things
- Can easily create, change and modify workflow
- Allows for automation through system tasks
- Allows the user to document the entire project and easily go back if needed
- Can generate reports of the exact time an incident occurred
- Allows users to quickly search & find what they need in the system
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Project Results and Next Steps
IPS has reduced the time required for managing product development changes and workflow in the same system from weeks to hours. In SAP, the PLM processes are now controlled and integrated with the downstream processes, which is extremely important for manufacturing since this medical device company has various manufacturing sites across the world. They are no longer limited to scattered systems with uncontrolled data; they now run fully integrated within SAP, with PLM part of the ERP process.
Implementing IPS was just a first step in automating & managing product development changes and workflow in one system. Our client plans to further integrate regulatory and quality processes with IPS in the next phase, deep in SAP.