Jim Brown, no not that one, the other one, and I had a good volley over on his blog http://tech-clarity.com/clarityonplm/2010/sap-credit-plm/. The question at hand is what will happen to PLM and will ERP ultimately win the battle. When I first read his post I was thinking he agreed with this, but later he tells me no.
Let me simplify the situation in a cold hearted and over simplified manner. PLM wanted to be a Design tool, a Release tool and own the product through Manufacture and beyond. Well at best they are a Release tool (Release only PLM). Ya ya I know I am being a bully. But stick with me and we will get to the monkey. In this view PLM owns release and ERP owns Manufacturing and Design is owned by no one. Well if I was ERP I would be thinking about how to surround my enemy versus fight them face on for ownership of Release.
PLM becomes the monkey when Design has a solution. Vuuch is a Design solution that makes PLM the monkey. Imagine if through Design Vuuch Pages are created for all your deliverables and that these pages carry a complete definition of each part of the design. Now imagine if the Vuuch page for Part_A could be linked to the ERP record for Part_A. This is no dream. Through the WEB service of the ERP solution and the open API approach of Vuuch the complete view of Part_A becomes social and PLM becomes the monkey.
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