Replacing a Legacy Parts Management System Lowers Costs for a Fortune 100 Manufacturer

A manufacturer of commercial vehicles used a heavily customized, third-party software product to manage parts information, including information about components, suppliers, and designs. The company wanted to rapidly deploy a replacement system that would better meet its business requirements, and provide lower ongoing cost of ownership.

Trigent used its development automation technology, Coradigm, to compress the development timeline for the project, while creating a new application that will easily accommodate business change.

The new system, which integrates with a range of enterprise systems, including a PLM, ERP, production configuration and compliance system, is designed to meet all of the client’s critical goals for the project: rapid time to delivery, low initial cost to build, and significantly reduced ongoing cost of ownership. The company can expect ongoing maintenance costs of approximately 15 percent annually of the cost of system development, a fraction of what it was paying to maintain the previous system.