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HOW DOES YOUR SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES WITHIN PLM COMPARE AGAINST YOUR PEERS?

Navigating the swiftly evolving world of modern manufacturing requires leaders
to look beyond just cost and risk. The growth in customers’ expectations and
increasing sustainability regulations are pushing product teams to revolutionize
their approaches to product lifecycle management (PLM) and supply chain
operations.

Manufacturers must make smarter and faster design and sourcing decisions and —
given the urgency of sustainability — demonstrate their environmental
credentials to thrive.

How is your organization navigating this transition? What differentiates those
who are doing it well? Take our short self-assessment to find out.

The assessment will yield customized results and recommendations based on your
responses and should take no more than 2 minutes to complete.


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PLEASE SELECT THE OPTION THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR ORGANIZATION:


IN WHICH REGION IS YOUR ORGANIZATION BASED?

Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
North America
South America
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PLEASE SELECT THE OPTION THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR ORGANIZATION:


WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBE THE PRIMARY TYPE OF PRODUCT YOUR
ORGANIZATION MANUFACTURES?

Automotive
Building materials and chemicals
Capital goods and heavy machinery
Consumer durable goods, including electronics
Consumer packaged goods
Other
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AROUND YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S PLM AND SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES?


“WE HAVE A FULLY DOCUMENTED, CENTRALIZED ONBOARDING PROCESS THAT ALL SUPPLIERS
MUST FOLLOW.”

Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AROUND YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S PLM AND SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES?


“SUSTAINABILITY CREDENTIALS DATA PROVIDED BY SUPPLIERS IS VERIFIED BY A RISK
MANAGEMENT OR SUPPLY CHAIN CERTIFICATION PLATFORM.”

Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AROUND YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S PLM AND SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES?


“WE FULLY SUPPORT ADVANCED PRODUCT QUALITY PLANNING (APQP) AND PRODUCTION PART
APPROVAL PROCESS (PPAP).”

Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AROUND YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S PLM AND SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES?


“STAKEHOLDERS ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION HAVE ACCESS TO A SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH
FOR PRODUCT DESIGN AND SOURCING.”

Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AROUND YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S PLM AND SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES?


“WE HAVE VOLUNTARILY COMMITTED TO GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION GOALS FOR OUR
OPERATIONS.”

Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AROUND YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S PLM AND SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES?


“THE ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) STATUS OF APPROVED-FOR-PURCHASE
SUPPLIERS IS TRACKED AUTOMATICALLY USING SOFTWARE.”

Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
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TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AROUND YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S PLM AND SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES?


“THERE IS STRONG COLLABORATION ACROSS BUSINESS UNITS ON KEY SUSTAINABILITY
INITIATIVES.”

Strongly disagree
Somewhat disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat agree
Strongly agree
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RESULTS OVERVIEW

Guiding designers to select approved materials, components, and suppliers is key
to product innovation success.

The answers you provided in this PLM and sustainability self-assessment are used
to determine your organization’s ability to rapidly pivot and adapt to changing
market dynamics, customer expectations, and regulations.

Where is your organization today, and what can you do to boost its PLM practices
in the future? Continue to see your personal results and recommendations.

Get your results and recommendations

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RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

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PLM Maturity

Your organization is among the 17% of manufacturers that has
NoviceIntermediateAdvanced PLM practices. It is in the 0stndrdth percentile,
meaning your organization’s PLM practices are more mature than 0% of
manufacturers. You’re below the 1st percentile, meaning your PLM practices are
less mature than virtually all other manufacturers. You’re above the 99th
percentile, meaning your PLM practices are more mature than virtually all other
manufacturers.

There are 485 firms in our survey that are more advanced than your organization.


YOUR MATURITY RESULT: NOVICEINTERMEDIATEADVANCED

Novice (17%) Intermediate (61%) Advanced (22%)
Your firm:

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PLM Maturity In Your Organization's Industry

Your organization is among the NaN% of manufacturers in the automotive building
materials and chemicals capital goods and heavy machinery consumer durable
goods, including electronics consumer packaged goods other industry that has
Novice Intermediate Advanced PLM practices. It is in the NaNstndrdth percentile,
meaning your organization’s PLM practices are more mature than NaN% of
automotive building materials and chemicals capital goods and heavy machinery
consumer durable goods, including electronics consumer packaged goods other
manufacturers. You’re below the 1st percentile, meaning your PLM practices are
less mature than virtually all other manufacturers. You’re above the 99th
percentile, meaning your PLM practices are more mature than virtually all other
manufacturers.

There are 0 automotive building materials and chemicals capital goods and heavy
machinery consumer durable goods, including electronics consumer packaged goods
other firms in our survey that are more advanced than your organization.

Novice (NaN%) Intermediate (NaN%) Advanced (NaN%)

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Note: Figures may not add up to 100% due to rounding.


PLM Maturity In Africa Asia Europe Middle East North America Sourth America

Also, 0% of manufacturers in Africa Asia Europe Middle East North America Sourth
America are classified as NoviceIntermediateAdvanced. Your organization is in
the NaNstndrdth percentile, meaning its PLM practices are more mature than 0% of
manufacturers. You’re below the 1st percentile, meaning your PLM practices are
less mature than virtually all other manufacturers. You’re above the 99th
percentile, meaning your PLM practices are more mature than virtually all other
manufacturers.

There are 0 Africa Asia European Middle East North American Sourth America firms
in our survey that are more advanced than your organization.

Novice (NaN%) Intermediate (NaN%) Advanced (NaN%)

Created with Highcharts 10.2.10%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%Your firm: 0%
Note: Figures may not add up to 100% due to rounding.


Recommendations

Your organization’s score means its PLM maturity is only in the beginning
stages:

 * Your organization lacks a common single source of truth for product design,
   sourcing, and compliance reporting.
 * Your organization’s processes to track and verify the sustainability
   credentials of materials, components, and suppliers are manual, error prone,
   and slow. 
 * Prioritizing cost reductions over regulatory compliance and sustainability
   improvement jeopardizes long-term competitiveness — and even survival.
 * Your organization’s multiple sustainability systems and initiatives
   duplicate effort without adding value and its focus is on cost and managing
   the overhead of compliance reporting.
 * Your organization’s classification of sustainability as a compliance rather
   than performance initiative risks undermining its capacity for competitive
   innovation.

Your organization should ensure consistent enterprise-level ESG data to reduce
the incremental burden of regulatory reporting. Begin with these actions:

 * Catalog the supplementary databases in which your organization manages
   sustainability data.
 * Document the effort of maintaining multiple databases and the risk error in
   labor-intensive reporting.
 * Build the business case for sharing sustainability data between engineering
   designers and teams responsible for compliance and risk management.

Reclassifying sustainability as a performance initiative is critical as your
organization pivots and adapts to changing market dynamics, customer
expectations, and regulations. Your organization should:

 * Document the impact of duplicate ESG data on time to market for new product
   introductions.
 * Document the risks and delays when designers determine sourcing for materials
   and components with incomplete data on sustainability.

Recommendations

Your organization’s score means its PLM maturity has advanced to the
intermediate stage. Sustainability is beginning to yield some competitive
advantages so that your organization’s ability to track and verify the
sustainability credentials of suppliers offers it options and flexibility in the
face of supply disruption or changes to customer or regulatory demands.

 * Your organization has achieved some level of data harmonization.
 * Your organization has scope to improve collaboration on supplier
   management across business units.
 * Your organization has scope to centralize supplier onboarding and compliance
   processes.
 * Your organization’s multiple sustainability systems and initiatives
   duplicate effort without adding value and its focus is on cost and managing
   the overhead of compliance reporting.

A key next step is to start linking sustainability targets to performance
indicators, such as new product introduction lead time, resilience to supply
chain disruption, and win rate in competitive sales.

To capitalize on your organization’s achievement and transform sustainability
into performance initiatives, your organization should:

 * Guide its design engineers to choose materials and components that balance
   the most competitive combination of cost performance and sustainability
   characteristics for each market.
 * Establish enterprisewide sustainability initiatives to synchronize business
   unit policies, methods, and systems.
 * Centralize supplier onboarding and compliance review.
 * Monitor the rate of accelerated compliant product introduction, including
   reduction in design rework at validation and verification stage.

Recommendations

Congratulations, your organization’s score means that its PLM practice is
advanced!

 * Your organization has achieved a high level of data harmonization.
 * Your organization has a high level of collaboration on supplier
   management across business units.
 * Your organization has centralized supplier onboarding and compliance
   processes but has the scope for further automation in ingesting third-party
   data sources to continually monitor sustainability characteristics
   of suppliers, materials, and components. 
 * Your organization’s sustainability initiatives now drive performance in terms
   of rate of successful product introduction, agility in the face of changing
   market requirements, and resilience in the face of potential supply chain
   disruption.
 * Your organization has the scope to strengthen the connection between
   sustainability targets and performance indicators, such as new product
   introduction lead time, resilience to supply chain disruption, and win rate
   in competitive sales.

Your organization is in a position to embrace the differentiating power of
sustainability. It should now:

 * Continue to mature its data usage, focusing on automated data reporting to
   support KPIs, such as scope 3 emissions and time to market for new products.
 * Continue to build flexibility to respond to new contingencies requiring
   alternate compliant bills of material or alternate compliant suppliers.
 * Build programs to link differentiating ESG credentials to content, marketing
   and sales automation, monitoring subsequent improved win rates, and customer
   retention. 
 * Make a commitment to greenhouse gas reduction goals.
 * Automate tracking and verification of suppliers.
 * Capitalize on support for APQP and PPAP to win, serve, and retain the most
   demanding customers.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT MAKERSITE

Makersite is a product lifecycle intelligence software built to support product
teams dealing with highly complex supply chain data. By applying AI-enabled Life
Cycle Assessment (LCAs) and deep-tier, granular scope 3 reports, Makersite has
helped manufacturers spend less time on disclosures and more time focused on
designing and sourcing better, more sustainable products. For more information,
visit makersite.io.






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METHODOLOGY AND DISCLAIMERS


METHODOLOGY

In this study, Forrester conducted an online survey of 493 product design and
sourcing decision-makers at manufacturing organizations across North America and
Europe to evaluate how they are incorporating sustainability into product
lifecycle management (PLM). Survey participants included decision-makers in
product development, engineering, and management; sustainability management;
supply chain management; and procurement. Questions provided to the participants
asked about the current state of and the challenges they face with PLM, a
self-assessment of their PLM and sustainability practices, and solutions that
can address their pain points. Respondents were offered a small incentive as a
thank-you for time spent on the survey. The study began in December 2023 and was
completed in January 2024.


DISCLAIMERS

Although great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy and completeness of
this assessment, Makersite and Forrester are unable to accept any legal
responsibility for any actions taken on the basis of the information contained
herein.

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