Collaborative Product Commerce
initiatives are typically executed during or just after the
implementation of
a PDM application. The primary focus of CPC is to better integrate
customers and suppliers to Product Lifecycle process’ and
technologies including PDM, Collaboration tools and Portals.
Collaboration with partners requires that
you conduct some fairly comprehensive process design work to
integrate your processes
with theirs. This will include integration of your internal private
process (creates), the external public process (publishes) and
the external private processes (responds) at your partner sites.
Additionally, more extensive evaluation and design of data/document
control and security is required to conduct a CPC initiative.
