CGI

Companies are looking to develop their supply chain’s capabilities in order to fulfill increasingly specific and changing customer needs. The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) set of tools is critical to companies because it helps them respond to this evolution of needs by increasing their flexibility while connecting them tightly to their suppliers, customers and partners (both internal and external). PLM solutions help manage configurations and changes throughout the product lifecycle, and ultimately contribute to reducing the time it takes to develop, industrialize, market and maintain products.

CGI helps its clients adopt a global vision of PLM. Available solutions in the PLM area do not only support product design and engineering but also cross-functional collaboration throughout the industrial value chain. PLM allows a significant competitive advantage when it integrates product design, sourcing, planning, manufacturing, marketing and maintenance activities. 

This is why CGI relies on a modular, commitment-based approach and specific domain expertise to address clients’ needs with flexibility, whatever difficulty they wish to address on their value chain, from the design of products to their production and maintenance. CGI addresses these needs through three specific offers: 

• PLM for innovation: CGI helps its clients stimulate innovation and accelerate time-to-market while reducing risks and development costs. For instance, the implementation of PLM tools and processes eases project and program portfolio management, provides an optimal platform for design tool integration (CAx, Formula Management, etc.) and allows the development of Simulation Lifecycle Management and Knowledge-Based Engineering capabilities ; 
• PLM for industrialization: Together with Dassault Systèmes, CGI has developed and implemented a solution, based on ENOVIA and DELMIA, that brings rigour and efficiency to the industrialization of pr