Digitizes concept to customer lifecycle
Provides a single platform for suppliers, engineering, quality, sales, customer service and customers to work together
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Siloed solutions focused on individual department needs instead of company-wide goals
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Strong cloud architecture
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Built on the Salesforce platform for enterprise class security and scalability at a low TCO
On-premise or aging cloud technologies with high TCO, not designed for distributed or remote workforces
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Core new product introduction capabilities
Propel makes it easier to connect all your people and integrate all your data so that you can manage the full product lifecycle
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Designed for engineering not the entire enterprise and cannot automate the full NPI process
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Core quality management capabilities
Provides closed loop enterprise wide quality management that enables design for quality, faster issue resolution and supplier quality management
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Manage all the basics of quality, including SCAR, NC and CAPAs in siloed systems that are not able to integrate quality processes across the enterprises
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Highly intuitive role-based, desktop and mobile user interfaces make it easier for anyone to learn quickly
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Complex and clunky user interfaces make it difficult for anyone but a power user to master.
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Built in collaboration provides context by associating the BOM with threaded communications and design history
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Collaboration is left to email, resulting in a less secure environment and difficulty seeing the history on product choices
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Strong supplier management
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Supplier management is built in, so that suppliers can easily access just their data and alerts in a few clicks.
Tools were not designed for suppliers and often require clunky VPNs and bolt-on modules
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Highly configurable, no code or low code
Limited configurability
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