Even fulfilling those orders on time, in the right quantities and billed correctly is not difficult but Spec2Market e-manufacturing a product to customers' specifications is very time consuming, expensive, and is a challenging undertaking involving thousands of employees, engineers, contractors, material suppliers and part manufacturers. Most companies do realize that they need to optimize all of their business operations including procurement, manufacturing, and order fulfillment. A product can be defined as any manufactured commodity, artifact, or service developed and delivered to consumers, clients and customers. Specification provides the inputs and requirements pertaining to parts, teams, techniques, manufacturing processes, process planning, tools' library, production schedules, and plans for manufacturing, assembly and inspections. Typical inputs to the products are knowledge, raw materials, parts, work-contents, priorities, business process, talent, etc.
Typical outputs are production rate, machine utilization, efficiency, performance measures, etc.
Tools' library Work process, policy, procedures Manufacturing Process Parts and components Product Assemblies Performance measures Process data can consist of hundreds of specifications with hundreds of product iterations. Spec2Market Organization does not restrict itself to one, where product development takes place. It extends across company boundaries, across functional boundaries, across status boundaries even across global geographical boundaries. In the last few years, Product development has moved away from a highly centralized activity to being more widely distributed one. An extension of this trend is that suppliers are increasingly asked to take more and more of the development loads.