Marketing and sales
In their daily work, Country Sales Units can easily collect requirements from domestic markets and deliver them instantly to any Feeder Factory Units for evaluation and preparation of tenders. Local language can be maintained, as IS applications may offer graphical user interface properly translated in any language
Downstream the value chain, Feeder Factory Units can instantly verify if requirements can be fulfilled by using existing design from knowledge database, or whether it is needed to send to Engineering request to prepare new cost/design proposals
All M and S units have one common data warehouse where documentation is collected, stored and accessible by everyone, in line with own functional prerogatives.
This facilitates sharing of information without restrictions, as long as access to Virtual Private Network is granted
Engineering
Knowledge-database is available to M and S for quick quotation.
This reduces work load of Engineering, because it is not engaged for those quotations, which do not have high probability of success, or require special care for any business reason Knowledge-database created by Engineering in a given
Feeder Factory Units may be shared with any other
Feeder Factory Units , which is going to design a similar product.
This option may completely avoid new design, or just reduce the effort, avoiding new design to be executed from scratch
Free Engineering resources may focus on cost optimization for target tenders and orders, which are already acquired