As part of Siemens ongoing commitment to innovation and efficiency, the version 2506 of Teamcenter Product Cost Management introduces a range of new capabilities and improvements, designed to accelerate calculations and streamline your workflow.
Teamcenter X Product Cost Management enables a seamless transition to the cloud, enhancing efficiency across departments and allowing staff to focus more on innovation and operational excellence. With rapid deployment of new features and scalable resource allocation, it offers flexibility and responsiveness. Moving to the cloud also helps reduce the environmental impact by minimizing the datacenter footprint.
In the fast-paced world of electronics, accelerating innovation while managing cost, complexity, and risk across the value chain has become a strategic imperative. Companies require end-to-end visibility into cost drivers, sourcing challenges, and sustainability metrics to make smarter decisions, faster.
By integrating Supplyframe’s design-to-source intelligence with Teamcenter Product Cost Management, organizations can significantly improve the reliability of their cost calculations. This integration enables access to up-to-date pricing and availability for thousands of electronic components, early visibility into supply chain risks and cost fluctuations, and smarter sourcing and design decisions that are aligned with actual market conditions. The result is a more connected, efficient, and future-ready electronics value chain capable of responding to market volatility, driving innovation, and maintaining competitive advantage.
With the new version, Siemens introduce a modernized user experience for managing Bill of Process (BoP) use cases. Manufacturing calculations can now be performed more quickly thanks to user-friendly features and a modern, document-based user interface. Users can efficiently edit additional manufacturing views, significantly reducing overall calculation time. A powerful, intuitive search embedded directly within input fields makes it easy to create or modify calculation details. Additionally, customizable views and table layouts allow users to tailor the interface to their specific needs, ensuring a more streamlined and efficient workflow.
The latest enhancements in cost management streamline workflows, improve accuracy, and allow teams to focus on value-added activities. By efficiently managing calculation cycle times and performing cost rollups at every level, users gain deeper insights for advanced analysis and more efficient cost calculations. The ability to export detailed cost breakdowns directly into Microsoft Excel eliminates manual effort and speeds up the quotation process. Additionally, usability improvements in tool costing ensure faster, more intuitive workflows for cost engineers, further boosting productivity across the organization.
Achieve timely and precise should-costing with the latest updates that enhance accuracy and decision-making. Updated global energy prices, interest rates, and material costs ensure that cost calculations reflect current market conditions, supporting better outcomes during negotiations. The inclusion of new machines expands support for additional manufacturing technologies, while enhancements to the knowledge domain enable more accurate, pre-configured manufacturing processes. Additionally, updated CO2e material and energy data make it easier to begin calculating product carbon footprints, aligning cost management with sustainability goals.
Advanced cost forecasting capabilities help maximize accuracy and provide deeper insight into future profitability. By leveraging these tools, businesses can confidently navigate complex financial landscapes and make informed decisions that support sustainable and profitable growth.
Further enhancements focus on improving the user interface and usability. These include default configurations for the table editor, improved automatic lookup functionality, and the ability to open a new editor directly from the table editor. New icons have been introduced for better visual clarity. The controlling manufacturing step is now available in the new user interface, along with price layering added to the basic data tab.
Further enhancements in the calculation core and foundation include performance improvements to speed up processing, roll-up of manufacturing times within manufacturing steps for more accurate time tracking, and calculation comparison for parts in project history to better analyze changes over time. Additionally, the BOM import function now supports updates, enabling smoother integration of bill of materials data.
Enhancements in quotation calculation and NPDI profitability tracking include improvements to the working capital calculation, providing more accurate financial insights and better tracking of profitability throughout the new product development and introduction process.
In tool costing, enhancements include the introduction of new icons for improved usability and visual consistency, as well as a revised tool calculation process, offering greater accuracy and efficiency in cost estimation.