New Product Development

Key Process Framework

Artemis NPD provides the most comprehensive solution for maintaining the complete portfolio under strategic and financial control throughout the entire product lifecycle.

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PROGRAM, PROJECT and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Program and project management is key for ensuring that companies deliver products on-time and on-budget while meeting market specifications by optimizing global cross functional performance across vertical silo-based operations and global teams. Best practices in program and project management will reduce product cycle time, cost and risks and increase quality thru better coordination, communication and collaboration of all stakeholders throughout the entire product life-cycle.

Improved resource allocation ensures optimal use of resources and increased productivity and efficiency. The ability to accurately forecast resource requirements reduces the risk of delays to the product development process by eliminating resource bottlenecks, and maximizes the returns from investments in resources by aligning resource capacity to product strategy.

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Project monitoring:

Create high-level work plan for approved projects
Add milestones, dependencies, documents, resource requirements, and cost estimates as appropriate
Compare top-down and bottom-up estimates

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Track project milestones:

Track major project decisions & deliverables
Analyze milestone trends to understand the effectiveness of decisions

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Optimize resource utilization:

Link project plan with allocated resources for close monitoring
Maximize utilization of staff based on skills and availability
Easily allocate individuals to project requirements by drag and drop
Dialog with project managers on resource revisions

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Perform detailed planning & scheduling for the most complex project:

Plan the project at the appropriate level of detail
Change task duration … and display the impact on project key milestones
Run Monte-Carlo simulation
Assign project allocated resources to specific tasks

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Track effort and progress:

Report actuals on project tasks and operational activities for progress monitoring
Integrate timesheet information to ERP

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