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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of a work-from-home business model has given rise to an increased need for microchips. Heightened consumer demand for chip-dependent products such as autos and home appliances has overloaded an already delicate system.

In an increasingly digital world, it’s nearly impossible to believe that manual, multi-pronged business models still exist. In the manufacturing space—currently defined by supply chain woes and backlogged inventory—laborious and antiquated systems dominate an already complex industrial makeup.

Product teams need a coordinated effort to translate their strategy, agree on tactics and gather feedback on a regular basis to make sure wider business goals are on track. When the C-suite outlines the company’s wider business goals, product teams often go to work carrying out their objectives.

Product managers are in a tough position in 2022. Many supply shortages for items like chips or raw materials are expected to be backed up until 2025 or longer. The cost of shipping has increased exponentially – according to Freightos, shipping rates have almost tripled from a year ago and have risen 12-fold from two years ago.

Listen to episode 17 where Maziar Adl, CTO of Gocious LLC discusses how Product Managers can use technology to bring the keep up with the pace of change.

There are few main operational areas in every manufacturing company, with ERP being one of the prime focal points. Broken down, manufacturers use ERP for a variety of projects, such as inventory management, order management, operations, and more recently, product management.

The supply chain crisis has forced people to think, act, and plan differently. Find out how to be agile in the new normal.

In the current circumstances it’s important for manufacturers to harness the power of data in order to become more agile, to keep pace with market demands and grow their businesses.

Stand by as the way products are designed and manufactured gets a major makeover.

Product managers wear many hats in their role—from mastering timelines to technology tools to finances, these integral manufacturing team members must become a jack of all trades to be successful.

“With industry 4.0, you can collect a lot of information from different sources in assembly plants,” adds Maziar Adl, chief technology officer at Gocious, a cloud-based software system for manufacturers with complex product lines. “As a result, you gain more knowledge and transparency on what’s happening across your operation to make better decisions and help take the correct action. The other benefit is digital transformation..."

Industry 4.0 is transforming the product manager role with agile work techniques, real-time insights, and AI/ML assistance.

With President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill, the U.S. government will be the largest manufacturer in the country. It is a groundbreaking government effort in this sector in recent history – the last infrastructure bill was introduced as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal efforts coming out of the Great Depression 90 years ago.

Data visualization is the graphical representation of information. Elements such as maps, graphs and charts that help identify patterns, trends and exceptions. The bottom line is it makes data more accessible and easier to understand, and therefore act on.

As manufacturers and supply chains faced production halts and constraints for the last year, Apple is now taking the initiative to innovate U.S. manufacturing practices by investing in communities across the country. By building out more capabilities such as 5G, silicon engineering, and AI/ML, Apple is just one leader among many major tech players who will affect how the U.S. successfully navigates current tech industry shortages—from semiconductors to expert workers.

A look at how engineers are pivoting and evolving their approach to build affordable and reliable electric vehicles.

Like it or not, every industry encounters a time when the market conditions are just right for a “perfect storm” of bad events. Within the past year, the semiconductor shortage became the result of such circumstances.

With the advent of manufacturing 4.0 and mass customization, products have become highly complex – and with that, the manufacturing process from design through to production.

Overordering, growth in 5G automation and limited production are all ongoing factors.

Gocious (Los Angeles, CA) recently unveiled its Competitor Analysis Solution designed to help facilitate go-to-market product journeys and foster a deeper understanding of competitive landscapes.

Gocious, an intelligent product planning software for discrete manufacturers, today unveiled its Competitor Analysis Solution facilitating seamless go-to-market product journeys to help foster a deeper understanding of competitive landscapes and drive immediate results, including data-driven decision making and reduced errors on product line builds.

For decades, manufacturers have employed teams to comb through their processes to identify opportunities to continuously improve their operations. A practice known as Kaizen. However, one area that has surprisingly not been targeted for improvement until recently is the early stages of product planning and management.

Anyone who’s used product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions can attest to a couple of things: it has massive potential, and it has a long way to go. As a recent survey by Gocious found, the pain points can make PLMs unappealing and difficult to use, leading many to abandon the systems altogether.

Companies of all kinds benefit from early, expert planning. Before spending time and money, companies need to plan and control product configurations and constraints, which are key to design, engineering and product specifications. All of this requires that management look at legal, engineering, operations and financial concerns, as well as customers’ needs.

Digital twin technology has become integral to manufacturing and the Internet of Things over the past several years. It has helped companies create better products with more efficient manufacturing, bringing clarity to designers and improving an assembly plant’s level of productivity. The importance of digital twins in retail manufacturing is clear, but there’s another domain where digital twins can make a significant difference: Monitoring and forecasting sales and revenues.

New offering enables planning teams to collaborate and plan complex product lines by ensuring alignment across the organization.

Product planning teams can increase collaboration and planning accuracy for complex product lines to ensure alignment across the organization

Artificial intelligence is still working its way into all our lives in one form or another, proving its benefits in our homes, at work, and beyond. Artificial Intelligence and other forecasting tools are poised to become invaluable in the retail industry, not only to drive productivity and sales but also to increase energy efficiency in real time.

But just as important as having a vaccine is having enough personal protective equipment (PPE) to aid in the vaccination of nearly 330 million people across the country. This importance will be a critical turning point for America’s manufacturers

For manufacturing organizations, early, high-level planning reduces costs, increases collaboration, and allows for greater control -- from conception to development, to improvement.

"Agile manufacturing is about creating flexibility to meet the market’s expectations. By testing products in the market and making changes quickly, the product and its varying features, packages and options become more reflective of the voice of the customer, sooner."

"As the industry adjusts to digital transformation – those who capitalize on new technologies and efficient processes will come out on top."

"The ability, or inability, of these companies to identify the best of both worlds and fuse them together could have bigger-picture impacts."

"Implications from COVID-19 spurred an increase in demand for the manufacturing of customizable products."

"New survey shows growing importance of digital transformation as manufacturers pivot to meet needs within digital economy."

"Manufacturers have to be diligent in the planning stage of their product configuration for better business outcomes."

"Gocious’ vision is to give customers insight into their Product DNA at all times, to define, configure, and scope out products that have a higher chance of succeeding in the market."