PLM 2012 - Orlando

Sessions

Track 1: Project management and collaboration

How Allison Transmission consolidated product development and enterprise change management in SAP PLM 7.01 and SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0

Tom Martin, GyanSys and Marwan Zakaria and Scott Kluemper, Allison Transmission
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm

Get an overview and lessons learned from the recently completed (Phase 1) SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) deployment at Allison Transmission, the global leader in commercial automotive transmission systems. Understand the business drivers for selecting SAP PLM, and walk through its multi-year, capabilities roadmap that includes ...

A detailed guide to balancing and aligning project portfolios with SAP Portfolio and Project Management

Andrea Langlotz, SAP AG
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

This session offers insight to help you improve phase-gate product development processes using SAP Portfolio and Project Management. See how the latest solution architecture has been updated to improve ...

Case study: A look at how Colgate-Palmolive integrates portfolio and project management to align IT and business

Christopher Bardi, Colgate-Palmolive (session is repeated on Thursday at 11:30 am)
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm

Christopher Bardi, Colgate-Palmolive (repeat session)
Thursday, March 22, 2012
11:30 am - 12:45 pm

Get an insider's view on how Colgate-Palmolive leverages the SAP solution for portfolio and project management, SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0. Understand how Colgate-Palmolive's IT project portfolio planning and resource management processes are ...

Case study: A single source of truth – Lessons learned from SCA Hygiene's ongoing journey to global product lifecycle management

Freddie Pantzar, SCA Hygiene Products AB and Katara Davis, SCA Americas
Monday, March 19, 2012
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

This case study offers best practices and lessons learned from the evolution of the product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and systems at SCA Hygiene, a global consumer goods and paper company. Learn how SCA Hygiene leverages SAP PLM to support ...

How Pacific Gas and Electric deployed a portfolio management and SAP BusinessObjects roadmap that translated into exceptional value for its business units

Bill DePrater, Pacific Gas & Electric and Anthony DeRosa, Platinum DB Consulting
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Gain unique insight into how Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) implemented and integrated its project (Primavera) and portfolio management (PPM) solutions with SAP BusinessObjects Business Planning & Consolidations (BPC) and Strategy Management applications to improve long-term planning and optimization of funding initiatives. Review ...

How to enable better communication and collaboration with embedded visualization in SAP PLM, Manufacturing and Service

Dr. Stephan Kohlhoff, SAP AG
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm

Learn how SAP is integrating 3-D model-based visualization and communications technologies from Right Hemisphere to enable visual navigation and interrogation of an entire product or asset in a single environment. Learn how to leverage visual design navigation solutions to provide ...

Lessons for balancing the art and science of variant configuration

Jean-Yves Popovic, itelligence Canada
Monday, March 19, 2012
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Whether you are in a make-to-stock or make-to-order, repetitive or discrete manufacturing environment; whether your product complexity is high or low, high volume or produced in small lots, this session offers advice for leveraging variant configuration as an optimal way to handle complex and large data models. Step through ...

The future of mobile manufacturing: Meet the winners of the 2012 SAP Innovation Challenge for Manufacturing Mobile Apps

Uwe Pfisterer and Ganesh Hegde, SAP
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

This session showcases the winning mobile manufacturing solutions and productivity enhancements that were submitted by SAP partners to the 2012 SAP Innovation Challenge for Manufacturing Mobile Apps. A jury of analysts and industry experts selected the top three mobile manufacturing application concepts based on several criteria, including ...

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