PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Model for Supply Chain Optimization

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an integrated business approach to the collaborative creation, management and dissemination of engineering information throughout the extended enterprise. Concretely, PLM enables a supply chain to become much more competitive by an effective collaboration among customers, developers, suppliers and manufacturers at various lifecycle stages of a product. Our objective is to propose a PLM model for a supply chain in order to increase its overall performance through better control of products at all stages of their lives. Thus, we will track product’s information on a supply chain composed, as a first step, by five actors (supplier, enterprise, warehouse, transporter and customer). Indeed, by integrating the logistics constraints in the early stages of product development, this will avoid additional costs and time waste caused by a product unsuitable for its supply chain.