Project Business Automation

Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD, PLM and ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Start simple by CAD/PDM + ERP Connectors, explore a single business system by having CAD + PLM + ERP with Bluestar PLM, or move your business towards enterprise product configuration by choosing the Product Configuration Module.

Today, businesses across all industries finish more than half of all their projects either behind schedule or over budget. This leaves great room for improvement for processes, that have been left largely untouched for years and instead, handled in old-fashioned and outdated ways. Formerly, businesses have maintained and governed systems, information and insight, that is critical for their survival, with manual labor in a siloed manner. This can lead to asynchronization of data, errors and poor collaborations, because it isn’t passed to stakeholders, or because the stakeholders are not able to reach it in time.

Adeaca PBA and Bluestar PLM

Adeaca PBA (Project Business Automation) and Bluestar PLM are both embedded in the well-known structure of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform. Though some departments will find the use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP system sufficient, other company divisions and branches might still be suffering from working in a siloed order, greatly affecting the business as a whole. By adding PLM and PBA to that equation, it facilitates the gathering and streamlining of product data on a shared and collaborative platform for businesses to distribute this across internal departments, such as sales, engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing, to external suppliers and customers.

How Bluestar Project Business Automation Integration helps you:

Work from the same single source of truth: Users of PBA, PLM and ERP in Sales, Procurement, Engineering and Manufacturing have around the clock access to all projects and product portfolios.
Seamless communication between the business departments secures product feasibility and ensures that no entities are overlooked and left behind.
A product- and project centered platform creates transparency hence avoiding redundant work and manual labour from duplicating, re-configuring and maintaining data and documents.
Planning a business project all the way from initiation through execution and finale delivery, eliminates unforeseen errors from manual labour and hasty decision making.
With projects planned from a shared platform, Project Business Automation ensures businesses a quick transition between departments and a shorter time to market.

Adeaca PBA plans, connects and automates business projects in multiple directions. Coupling this with Bluestar PLM adds a vital link to this flow and results in continuous and streamlined projects.

BluestarPLM Integrations Project Business Automation 1

Execute and monitor end-to-end processes between engineering and the supply chain inside D365/AX.

Key Features of Project Business Automation Integration

A seamless integration

All three modules, PBA, ERP and PLM, are seamlessly integrated on one shared platform. It means that all users will have access to the same projects and process data, enabling swift flows and generating of material e.g. BOMs and 3D models.

Real-time visibility

While projects unfold and product solutions are shaped, users can share necessary information, meaning that Finance can provide Engineering with half-way price estimates to align expectations and forecast before production is initiated.

Standardization and integration

Through Project Business Automation (PBA), project-based businesses are addressed in their entirety, instead of in a siloed form. This systemization forces business departments to align.

Automatic risk management

Real time and automatic governance of processes and projects prepares businesses for risks and allows early response, reducing or completely eliminating failure.

Maximizing capabilities

Less projects will be done over budget or behind schedule because business capacities as well as internal and external constraints are intelligently managed and utilized. Thereby, client expectations are met while revenue-producing resources are maximised.

Your Benefits with PBA Integration

Estimation and planning

Allying a system that manages business project with one that manages product lifecycles, on a platform that manages business resources provides better planning and precise project estimations, improves project initiation, and presents better insight of product development and finances throughout the project.

Financial traceability

With PBA and PLM in ERP, businesses can obtain and preserve valuable information between departments, from project initiation, through engineering to procurement and take advantage of this insight to manage, track and share financial data like budgets and costs for better planning and forecasting.

Bridging the gap

For many years, traditional project accounting and ERP systems have not fulfilled the need for modern day businesses, eventually calling for manual labour. With complete and automatic product and project traceability and governance, businesses are offered a solution that bridges the gap between what have previously been offered.

Schedule and operations

Integrate and execute operations in finance and supply chain with product development and manufacturing through advanced and precise project planning.

Project Insight and BI*

Adeaca PBA and Bluestar PLM give users an automatic insight to projects with real-time project previews, product portfolios and enterprise performances, bringing information to the right people at the right time.

*Business Intelligence