Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions are being adopted by Manufacturers to:
- Speed time to market by streamlining and automating complex, mission-critical processes;
- Enable collaboration, facilitate project management, speed joint delivery, and ensure process standardization;
- Provide the framework for quality processes like lean manufacturing, ISO 9000, QS 9000 and Six Sigma;
- Foster collaboration with diverse groups to encourages innovative approaches to new product development, and captures these approaches for future products;
- Reduce inventory costs and increase business agility and efficiency by automating business processes and accelerating access to critical content enterprise wide.
Research and development, plant optimization, and supply chain management activities are heavily dependent on the availability of quality information. ECM solutions provide manufacturers with a wide range of applications designed to streamline processes and optimize efficiencies enterprise wide across multiple content repositories.