Summary
For an automotive company product data is the heart of the information.It is data needed
everywhere, it needs to be common, and you must be able to getadvanced and diversified services
from it.
Below you will have an overall description of what is meant by vehicle product data and how it
should be managed, important examples of how product data can be used all overthe company,
and what base technology is needed to achieve this.
My name is Lars Wentzel. All my life I have been working in the automotive industry with information
handling: Systems, investigation, information analysis and design of algorithms. Areas I have covered
are Planning, Capacity Management and Order to Delivery in a context where multiple systems are involved.
For twenty years I have also worked with product vehicle data, both configurations and part contents
(BOM). Focused on common company product data and advanced use of it in planning, ordering,
order scheduling, pricing, invoicing, cost calculations, dummy order creation and capacity
management.
The below description is a try to generalize what I have learnt.
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