Bids are more likely to succeed, be more profitable, with less risk

By using Plexus, companies can produce effective models and visualizations of complex projects, early in the bid phase. After work is won, these models form the basis of executable plans. As Plexus is adopted, generic models and model components develop, for rapid responses to specific opportunities, and to fine tune operations ahead of winning business.

Plans and processes for complex product development are optimised

By using Plexus to better integrate work, and target improvement
projects, companies can design and optimize their product development plans and processes to obtain double digit improvements in:
• Increased project efficiency
• Decreased project timescales
• Increased project certainty
• Increased product optimality (requirements trade-off)
• Increased product maturity
• Reduced unplanned rework

Waste is taken out of the supply chain and other value streams

 Plexus marries value stream data from disparate sources, including
intelligence, and allows it to be visualized and analyzed from many
perspectives. With such multidimensional models, companies can
intelligently design their value stream networks. They can target
massive cost, lead-time and risk reduction initiatives, some worth
tens of millions of dollars to the bottom line.

Business, service & capability transformation and migration programmes are managed for success

 A unified model in Plexus provides a roadmap to benefits, via a network of project outcomes, and the project outputs that support those outcomes.  In addition, inter-project dependencies are properly understood, communicated and managed.

Building and exploiting such a model can avoid waste on ill-defined or unnecessary project outputs, often saving USD 7-figures. Such models also ensure that planned benefits are realized, by doing the right things in a timely manner, and seeing the impact of work that is not done in this manner.

Platform migrations can be scheduled to maximize new revenue, minimize cost (including late delivery penalties) and de-conflict scarce resources - saving or generating tesn of millions of dollars, and keeping the goodwill of end customers, by minimizing disruptions
and outages. When plans evolve and need to be changed, Plexus models easily reveal downstream impact, allowing mitigation strategies to be analysed.

Existing facilities and resources are better utilised, avoiding unnecessary capital spend and recruitment

The same modelling and optimization capability used for managing complex platform migrations can be applied to short time-horizon scheduling and resource allocation problems (e.g., complex engineering test programs such as flight testing of a new aircraft or a new gas turbine engine).

Through better scheduling and other improvements (i.e., targeted via value stream mapping), multiple benefits accrue; from getting the most out of existing facilities and resources, not wasting capital and revenue on unnecessary acquisition, and avoiding costly delays on critical programs.

......The Bottom Line

Financial benefits are  enormous. The advantages described above typically provide the following benefits for a business of $4billion per annum turnover:
a) Cash release of $250m through reducing flow times and cost of work in progress
b) Reduced sub-contract cost of $100m
c) Ability to win more business through advocacy capability and more efficient value streams