Recently, the bidding results for the "Inspur Information IPD Process Informatization Construction Project" were officially announced, and the AlphaFlow IPD Process Solution successfully won the bid! Based on the AlphaFlow BPA process management and automation platform, it will assist Inspur Information in achieving cross-domain collaboration standards and process integration for end-to-end business processes in IPD. This will advance the comprehensive online management of the main product stage processes in IPD, realizing the innovative goal of "unified processes, unified master data, and unified IT systems."
IPD (Integrated Product Development) is a set of product development models, concepts, and methods. IPD originally comes from the book "Product and Cycle-time Excellence" (PACE) published by PRTM, which details the various aspects of the IPD product development model.
In traditional product development, work is carried out in a serial process, where each area's work is handed over to the next after completion. The primary issue with this model is low efficiency, rework, difficult handovers, and potential disputes. Under the IPD system, product development work is conducted in parallel, with each area working simultaneously according to the main tasks of each IPD stage. Stage-wise reviews of work results are conducted to decide whether to proceed to the next step, thereby identifying and mitigating risks.
The AlphaFlow IPD Process Solution, leveraging the successful practices of leading enterprises, aims to help companies build a comprehensive management system from market demand to product development and innovation, and ultimately to the successful launch and full lifecycle management of products.
Inspur Information is a global leader in IT infrastructure products, solutions, and services. To date, the company has 8 R&D centers, 10 production bases, and 26 branches, with business operations spanning over 120 countries and regions.
As a pioneer in domestic server manufacturing, earlier this year, Inspur Information introduced the AlphaFlow EBPA process planning and design platform within the group, completing the unified modeling of overall business architecture and end-to-end business processes across departments and lines. However, facing high-cost core technology research and product development, how can the company achieve business goals such as shortening the product development cycle, reducing product costs, increasing per capita output, and reducing mid-term project cancellations through cross-departmental team collaboration?
To address this, Inspur Information introduced the IPD process, driven by market demand, with two overarching objectives: to connect IPD business process execution with the EBPA process planning and design platform, ensuring the synchronization and alignment of basic process management elements; and to integrate IPD business processes with underlying core support systems, achieving informatization and integrated operation of process activities. The key construction goals for the second phase of the project are:
Unified Process Integration and Operation: Achieve cross-system process and data connectivity. Integrate the core business systems deployed at each stage of product development with the IPD process platform, linking the processes and data of previously independent business systems such as ALM/PLM (requirements management), RDM (R&D project management), PLM (research and development lifecycle management), CRM, ERP, and MES.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Achieve end-to-end management of IPD cross-domain processes. Consolidate processes that were previously maintained offline and manually uploaded by process personnel into a unified process management platform. This will enable unified modeling, execution, and monitoring of end-to-end IPD business processes, breaking down the traditional block-like work mode in product development and achieving process-driven IPD business operations and cross-system data integration.
Unified Process Data Analysis: Based on the full-process management of IPD business, compare and analyze the planned data with actual operational data. This will provide a clear view of the status of various business dimensions, identify issues in the actual implementation of processes, and offer data-driven support for subsequent process analysis and optimization. It will also help in identifying potential risks and supporting decision-making.
Unified IPD Portal: Employees from different business domains can enter the IPD project portal to view detailed information about all projects, including delays, unexecuted, normal, and advanced statuses. They can quickly initiate, process, and view corresponding project content, achieving unified presentation, processing, and viewing of projects.
Accumulation of IPD Business Process Assets: Transform occasional successes into reusable, consistently high-quality management systems, effectively improving the efficiency and quality of subsequent similar product developments.
This IPD process informatization project will help Inspur Information achieve more efficient product development processes, enhance market response speed, and boost core competitiveness in the industry, providing an advantage in the fierce market competition.
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