Watch the recording here: http://www.arenasolutions.com/support/fall-13-webinar/ Arena pioneered cloud PLM applications. The company’s products, including BOMControl, PartsList and PDXViewer, enable engineering and manufacturing teams and their extended supply chains to speed prototyping, reduce scrap, and streamline supply chain management. Arena cloud PLM applications simplify bill of materials and change management for companies of all sizes, and offer the right balance of flexibility and control at every point in the product lifecycle—from prototype to full-scale production.

1. FALL 2013 RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Steve Chalgren, VP Product Management & Strategy
Kathy Davies, Product Manager
Paul Welch, Product Manager
Roy Stafford, Product Manager

2. AGENDA
• Introductions
• Fall 2013 Product Previews
 API
 Supply Chain Exchange
 Project Collaboration
 Demand Analysis
• How to get more information
• Questions

3. FALL 2013 PRODUCTS
• API
• Supply Chain Exchange
• Project Management
• Cost Analysis

4. APPLICATION PROGRAMMING
INTERFACE (API)

5. 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

6. 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

7. SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE
Technical

8. ARCHITECTURE
• RESTful (REpresentational State Transfer)
• Authentication: session ID
• Protocol: Secure, encrypted https protocol
• Data Transport: JSON (JavaScript Object
Notation)
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9. SUPPORTED CAPABILITY
• Secure Authentication
• Items – Specs, BOM, Sourcing, Files, etc.
 Read
 Create
 Modify
 Delete
• Additional Arena objects in future
releases
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10. EXAMPLE – CREATE AN ITEM
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11. WANT MORE?
October 1st, 2013:

12. Supply Chain Exchange

13. 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
Supplier
A
Supplier
C
Supplier
B
Supplier
D
Supplier
E

14. 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
Supplier
A
Supplier
C
Supplier
B
Supplier
D
Supplier
E

15. SAMPLE USE CASES
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OEM
Other
Suppliers
Contract
Manufacturer
Supplier
A
Supplier
C
Supplier
B
Supplier
D
Supplier
E
• 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

16. SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE
Demonstration

17. WANT MORE?
October 2nd, 2013:

18. PROJECT MANAGEMENT

19. 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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20. 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

21. SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE
Demonstration

22. WANT MORE?
October 8th, 2013:

23. COST ANALYSIS

24. 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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25. 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

26. 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

27. SUPPLY CHAIN EXCHANGE
Demonstration

28. 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

29. 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

30. WANT MORE?
October 2nd, 2013:

31. UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
• Training:
• Topic Specific Webinars:
 October 1st: API
 October 2nd: Supply Chain Exchange & Cost Analysis
 October 8th: Project Management

33. www.arenasolutions.com
866.937.1438
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