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Chengdu, China 2019

Prabakaran Muthusonai
Move from RAC to Active Workspace
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Introduction

• FMCG Industry Overview


• Customer - Unilever
• Challenges faced
• Proposed Resolutions
• Resolution approach
• Sample scenarios - Challenges Vs Solutions
• Roadmap to Unilever
• Q&A

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FMCG Industry overview

Infrastructure
Formulation
On-Premises /

Dairy
Package Mgmt. search
On-Cloud
chat

Beauty &
Grooming
Meat Specification Mgmt. Reuse Mix & Match mail
& Poultry
Regulation Mgmt.

Solutions
FMCG
AD / MFA /

Communication
Fabric care
MFA SAML

Security
& Home care
Design Mgmt.
Fruits & DNS IF
Vegetables

Baby
Change Mgmt

Productive Tools
Standards & Regional
& Family Regulations

Snack food
care ERP Integration
Art
Beverages

PLM

Planning &
work

Execution

Design CAD ERP
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Customer - Unilever

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest


Fast Moving Consumer Goods company with a
heritage of over 80 years in India. 2.5 billion people
use Unilever products to feel good, look good and get
more out of life. With more than 400 brands bought in
190 countries

Approx. ~1000 active/concurrent users utilizing


Teamcenter for package data management across the
globe. Ultimately, Packaging design & change
management implemented in Teamcenter with NX &
SAP integration.

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Unilever : Teamcenter Solutions

• Technology & delivery based packages are segregated. (Ex.


Package Mgmt. Bottle – Plastic / Glass, cotton bag, etc.. )

• NX integrated with TC to manage package components


Design Mgmt. design & collaborate with technology & delivery form details

Change Mgmt • Once design is passed PDL (Product Design Lock), change
management process considered for refinements

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Unilever : Challenges – Expectations

• Data model related


• Complicated objects definitions

• Client level customization


• Data manipulation @ client level
• Rendering Hint customization

• Search

• Performance
• Client side rendering
• Search response timing

• Intuitiveness

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Active Workspace
Overview and positioning

Find what you need faster Make smarter decisions PLM anytime anywhere

• Intelligent charts • See all relevant information in • Web-intuitive, configurable UI


• Shopping cart-like filters on context • Identical experience on any
properties, shape & • Visually understand device with no client install
classification relationships • Embeddable components
• Results ranking • Easily participate in PLM –
• Aggregate relevant external dashboards, signoffs, workflow
data …

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Unilever : Challenges – Expectations – Solutions

• Data model related • Productionized data model – may required


• Complicated objects definitions data model revamp

• Client level customization


• Server side data manipulation (SOA / ITK)
• Data manipulation @ client level • Stylesheet configuration
• Rendering Hint customization
• Wide range of search results with filter
• Search

• Web based UI rendering using stylesheet


• Performance • Indexer based Full Text Search
• Client side rendering
• Search response timing • User Intuitive & Reduced no of clicks

• no installation (Web based) & minimal


• Intuitiveness
training

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Sample Scenario
Challenges Vs Resolutions 1 of 5 - Pack component Creation

• During pack component


creation various
characteristics like
component class, Material
class, Technology etc.
captured and based on the
selection system will identify
Teamcenter item type and
create the same
• Selection of 7 level
Interdependent LOVs.

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Sample Scenario
Challenges Vs Resolutions 2 of 5 – TC data indexing to Solr engine

Schema
Schema
Tc

Server
Documents

Tc Schema check
Extract data against
DS
Update index data

valid schema and save


into working dir. In
TcFTSIndexer (*.xml) Item

Form
Rev
TcFTSIndexer

Grab schema
Update latest changes from TC
Schema to Solr
TcSchemaTo
SolrSchemaTransform

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Sample Scenario
Challenges Vs Resolutions 2 of 5 – TC data (incl. forms) indexing to Solr
engine

Schema
Schema
Tc

Server
Documents

Tc Schema check
Extract data against
DS
Update index data

valid schema and save


into working dir. In
TcFTSIndexer (*.xml) Item
Form
Attribute
s
Form
Rev
TcFTSIndexer
Update solr data
files (*.xml) Grab schema
Utility to extract form data and merge with solr files
Update latest changes from TC
Schema to Solr
TcSchemaTo
SolrSchemaTransform

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Sample Scenario
Challenges Vs Resolutions 3 of 5 – Import Data

• Every pack component the user will import the data(zip format). Basically these files are getting from the
suppliers.
• They will mention the supplier name and import reason as well.

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Sample Scenario
Challenges Vs Resolutions 4 of 5 - Environmental Packaging Material

• Extract data to examine impact of each material’s on the total environmental calculation of a multi-layer
component and determine which layers have the largest impact on the environmental calculations to
steer users to more sustainable material combinations.
• Enabled export feature to generated as an Excel file.

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Sample Scenario
Challenges Vs Resolutions 5 of 5 - Populating Icon

Loading the mandatory icon with asterisk symbol based on value


in the specific property

Note: If the “Validation Rule” property values starts with “M:”, the
icon should be loaded with Mandatory Icon.

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Active Workspace System – Customer’s Benchmark

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Active Workspace System – With SAP “Enable Now”

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Roadmap to Unilever

For Customer:
• Faster user enablement
• Reduce high configuration/cost machines to end users
• AW host on cloud (AWS/Azure)
• Internet Facing

For Siemens:
• Managed Services
• Increase Usages hence licenses

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Questions

Answers
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Contact Information

Prabakaran Muthusonai
Implementation Consultant
SISW GS&S
Chennai, India
Phone: +91-9940902011

E-mail:
Muthusonai.prabakaran@siemens.com

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