Innovative Solutions

E-46 customer was a global financial services entity

Customer occupied portions of 13 buildings in a downtown urban center, and desired to consolidate to 2 buildings

Customer asked E-46 to attend several real estate department meetings to learn about the project

Facilitate workshops to document the desired end state of information

Present dashboard MPV: Executive, Director and Architect/Designer

Discover available data points available that could contribute to a data-centered solution

Real Estate utilization dashboard

Splunk Enterprise Security (ES): Leverage existing deployment that included application logs from 35 systems

Add weather, traffic and calendar event data to understand anomalies

Launch solution in 30 days

Customer approached architects and designers with empirical data, reducing cost of design, while increasing workplace morale

Timeframe: 2015-2016

E-46 customer was a services supplier to the end client. 

The end client was a US Nationwide Retailer.

End Client was considering switching to a competing services supplier due to performance issues.

Customer asked E-46 to attend several end client meetings to learn about the problem.

End-Client claimed customer was the root cause of product expiration loss in regional distribution centers.

Facilitate workshops to document end to end product testing process 

Present known gaps : contributor, management, director, VP 

Discover underlying processes leading to product expiration

Develop four solution opportunities with P&L forecast

Portal based Testing Product Lifecycle Management system for 400 suppliers and test laboratories

Greenfield development: SharePoint document management hosted on Rackspace, data integration with Labware

Launch solution to supply chain over nine months

Development included greenfield domain-based role-based and attribute-based access control system (RBAC & ABAC)

End client retained services supplier

Customer found efficiencies in the solution resulting in net increase in operating margins

Timeframe: 2012-2013

E-46 customer was a services supplier to the end client. 

The end client was a Global restaurant

End Client was considering shifting 60% of scope to a competing services supplier due to performance issues.

Customer asked E-46 to attend several end client meetings to learn about the problem.

End-Client claimed customer was failing to deliver critical safety information to the design, manufacturing and distribution supply chain.

Facilitate workshops to document end to end product life cycle, as it relates to safety artifacts 

Present current state, known gaps

Develop two solution opportunities with P&L forecast

Portal based Product Lifecycle Management system for 185 supply chain entities

Greenfield development: SharePoint document management hosted on Rackspace, product attribute based system linked with developed database of safety standards procured from 120 countries

Launch solution to supply chain over six months

Development included greenfield domain-based role-based and attribute-based access control system (RBAC & ABAC)

End client retained services supplier, then increase scope by 300%

Customer found efficiencies in the solution resulting in net increase in operating margins

Timeframe: 2011-2013

E-46 customer was a DOD subcontractor, providing engineering and manufacturing services for military aircraft

Customer acquired four companies over 25 years, chose to consolidate Product Lifecycle Management systems

Four distinctive PLM systems required retention of designs due to support and security obligations with the DOD

Customer asked E-46 to attend several meetings to learn about the scope.

Facilitate workshops to document requirements of new system : user experience, data management, design services, procurement

Develop relationships with subject matter experts for new off the shelf PLM software

Manage development using hybrid-agile approach

Enovia 3DExperience with Catia

Roll-out included concurrent systems running while launching with: test systems; minor program; major program

Flip switch at 36 month mark with white-glove for 80 hours

No data loss

Customer expanded service offerings to DOD realizing gains with procurement

Customer found efficiencies in the solution resulting in net increase in operating margins

Timeframe: 2019-2022