Program and Contract Management

The Program and Contract Management app provides users in the engineer-to-order industry the ability to create and manage products and to maintain supporting reference information.

Programs and Products are organized and managed as portfolios, enabling rapid identification of product development status, as well as, resources and activities needed to complete contractual obligations in the development, test, and delivery of each product.

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The successful planning, execution, and management of programs and associated contracts requires the communication and collaboration of all organizations across the enterprise from proposal generation to operations and maintenance. By integrating the business processes of the Contracts Management, Program Management, Program Planning and Controls, Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Data Management, and Subcontracts Administration, the Program and Contract Management app tackles the complexities of managing and executing programs in this market.

With this app, all teams in the enterprise can define and communicate contractual requirements from the customer, to the supply chain with a robust set of Program Management processes for managing correspondence, item delivery, Contract Compliance, Requirements Management, Risk Management, Issue Management, and other such activities. This app is designed to help companies achieve profitability through the proper understanding and execution of contractual requirements to support on time delivery.

Program and Contract Management provides the following functionality:

  • Provides and facilitates contracts management from proposal through delivery and support specifically focused on long lead processes for engineer-to-order and Aerospace and Defense.
  • Organizes work and products by establishing a framework for organizing companies, business units, departments, programs, contracts, and subcontracts.
  • Provides a unique Bookmark Root for members of key functional and organizational disciplines to perform their day to day tasks.
  • Provides a complete lifecycle management for contracts from the time of proposal to completion.
  • Supports Program Management, X-BOM Engineering, Variant Management Foundation, and Requirements Management.

This app is part of a portfolio of apps and provides an overlay to support the foundation apps, such as Project Management Foundation, Engineering BOM Management Foundation, and Traceable Requirements Management. Use of additional products can enhance the capabilities of this app.