HOW TO FIND PRODUCT DATA IN 1 CLICK?

The bill is high... 

Jean Villerest, Sales Director of Soprodal, returned from the Suppliers' Convention of his main customer rather satisfied. For once, the key message was not about lowering prices, but about the claim '100% French origin'.
The company has long favoured local sourcing, so there should be no problem. A quick phone call to R&D to make sure. Patrice Parigny confirms: "Yes, we'll just need another supplier for the salt, which currently comes from Germany.
"A simple formality", says Villerest, who sends an email to inform everyone.

A small modification to "please"...

The reactions were not long in coming.
First, Yves Briennon for the production: "It is out of the question to manage two stocks of salt. It's too complicated and there's no room. So if we change, it will be for 100% of the supplies. Then Marc Chandon in Purchasing: "We've just finalised this project! Better price, better service! What am I going to look like if I go back a year?

Product data management: the challenge of updates!

Then, more pragmatic or resigned, Samia Neaux in the Quality Department is content with an addition: "There are 50 recipes to be modified. We also have to redo the supplier file with certificates, analyses and audits. We also have to inform all our customers for whom we have specifications, obtain their agreement, make the changes and provide the annexes.
Nervous or ironic, she adds:
"We're lucky, there's no need to redo the labelling...".

How to manage changes and secure successive versions?

Finally, in the IT Department, the "EDM" file is moving to the top of the pile. We'll talk about it at the next CODIR. Product data management with a high-performance tool is becoming essential!
At the same time as the deployment of the "agile" method?

A small change to 'please' a client that results in a lot of administrative work that is not very interesting and is totally unproductive, is something that has been done in the past, right?

A grain of salt pushes Soprodal to review its document management...

Do we have the right tools, in particular to manage the documentation accompanying these changes?

How to keep product data up to date easily? 

How to manage changes throughout the product life cycle?