Established in 2016 and formed from a team of senior level PLM and Digital Transformation experts, PointPLM’s mission is simple: Deliver on the promise of enabling companies to bring great, relevant products to market rapidly with a focus on realizing sustainable revenue, cost, quality, and target market objectives.
Industry knowledge coupled with deep domain experience and cutting-edge innovation separates PointPLM from the pack. With years of industry expertise at work in positioning, deploying, and supporting over 175 customers in key verticals, PointPLM has the experience, knowledge, and wisdom to deliver top-performing solutions for the modern enterprise.
Job description
PointPLM is seeking to hire an Oracle Agile PLM Developer (Agile PLM SDK and Java)
The PLM SDK/Java Developer will be responsible for working with internal teams and customers focused on enabling solution development and use case validation within Oracle Agile PLM.
Candidate competencies and requirements
3+ years of experience with Oracle Agile PLM
3+ Years Oracle Agile PLM SDK expertise
3+ Years utilizing Java, J2EE, Javascript, JSP, XML and SQL
Strong technical expertise and exposure to large or medium scale enterprise application integration (EAI) with multiple interfaces and systems.
Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
Results driven. Documented history of performance.
Established in 2016 and formed from a team of senior level PLM and Digital Transformation experts, PointPLM’s mission is simple: Deliver on the promise of enabling companies to bring great, relevant products to market rapidly with a focus on realizing sustainable revenue, cost, quality, and target market objectives.
Industry knowledge coupled with deep domain experience and cutting-edge innovation separates PointPLM from the pack. With years of industry expertise at work in positioning, deploying, and supporting over 175 customers in key verticals, PointPLM has the experience, knowledge, and wisdom to deliver top-performing solutions for the modern enterprise.
Job description
PointPLM is seeking to hire an Oracle Agile PLM Functional and Technical Consultant.
The Senior PLM Consultant will be responsible for working with customers to adopt and maximize on premise and cloud Oracle Product Lifecycle Management solutions.
Candidate competencies
Experience in demonstrating and implementing both Oracle Agile PLM on Premise and/or Oracle PLM Cloud in fast paced, technical environments.
Experienced in Key Configuration Workshops, Functional Design, Test Planning and Test Execution.
Proven track record of trouble shooting and resolution of functional and technical roadblocks across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.
Results driven.
Excellent report status and analysis skills
Minimum Requirements
5 years Oracle Agile PLM Functional consulting experience.
Experience with Oracle Agile PLM On Premise and/or Cloud.
Deep knowledge of Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management processes
High level understanding of new product innovation to commercialization.
There are perhaps hundreds of Agile PLM customers that are
quite content with the state of their Agile systems. It’s a tried and true product that has
reached a level of maturity that doesn’t warrant significant feature
enhancements. Many of those customers
are getting by with early versions of Agile 9.3.6, 9.3.5 and often even older
versions. While IT managers may call for
upgrades to replace aging infrastructure, business managers and users are often
left asking, “What’s in it for me?” For
several major and minor releases now, there have not been compelling reasons to
upgrade in the eyes of many customers.
Platform support doesn’t mean much to an end user, and with many feature
enhancements coming to modules that users may not use, upgrades haven’t been
justifiable. And lastly, while there
have been lengthy bug fix lists with every release, customers often look right
past those if they haven’t experienced the problems that were fixed.
Despite the general reluctance to upgrade, Oracle recently
provided a reason that may compel more customers to consider upgrade. Agile 9.3.6 Release Update Pack (RUP) 9 was
released in April 2019 and includes a feature that may not have gotten much
attention, but it should. RUP 9
introduced support for SAML 2.0 Authentication.
SAML is an abbreviation for Security Assertion Markup
Language and without getting too technical, it’s an XML-based framework for
passing authentication credentials. With
the explosion of cloud services, it’s become the standard for authenticating
users for SaaS applications. And with so
many companies moving parts of their business to cloud applications, SAML is
almost an imperative, allowing the customer to manage application access while
the SaaS provider can do what they do best without worrying about managing user
account databases. When a user attempts
to access a cloud application, their request is forwarded to an Identity
Provider (IdP) to confirm their identity and level of access; and only if
everything checks out are they granted access to the application.
Agile PLM, while typically an on-premise application, can
benefit from the popularity of SAML for identity management and authentication. With a minimum amount of effort, Agile can be
configured to authenticate via the same Identity Provider that a company is
already using for all their cloud services.
And for those customers that have struggled with Single Sign On (SSO)
configuration in the past using web servers like IIS, they should be happy to
know that additional front-end web servers are not needed to enable SAML 2.0
support in Agile.
With SAML support enabled in Agile 9.3.6 RUP 9, Agile
customers can control access to Agile via their corporate directory service,
eliminate Agile-only user accounts and password management headaches, and let
users use the same account credentials they use for other enterprise on-premise
and cloud based applications. And for
those customers that have intranet launch pages, users will welcome the ease of
single sign, an often-requested feature that many customers elected not to
implement because of the additional infrastructure required.
PointPLM has implemented SAML 2.0 authentication in Oracle Agile PLM 9.3.6 RUP 9 and would be happy to discuss your use case. For any customer that has not already upgraded to RUP 9 we can help make that happen and even if you are already there, we’d be happy to talk to you about enabling SAML support for your Agile PLM environment.
Product development (PD) and Product Information Management (PIM) are important parts of the Product Management feature set of Oracle SCM Cloud Application. In order to understand the uses/functions and even the differences between Product Development and Product Information Management (aka Product data hub) one must gain some insight into the Ideation to Commercialization process. During this process a user starts off with an idea, which is posted and processed through innovation management. The steps are Post Idea, Create Proposal, Create Requirements Specification, Create Concept Structure.
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Once the idea has completed all the steps within Innovation Management (IM) the Ideation to Commercialization process requires the user to move on to PD. PD’s main use is during the design phase. This module is utilized by engineers to define design specific meta data (ex. length, width, height, weight and UOM). Also defines item structure (Engineering Bill Of Materials), add manufacturer parts, and create change orders to manage design revisions and effectivity.
Upon completion of the design process, Commercialization in SCM Cloud would have users utilize PIM. This is where organizational/plant specific attributes are added to the item. These attributes include specifications for how the item is planned, procured, received, stored in inventory, manufactured, sold, and serviced by organizational/factory location. Additionally PIM is where item catalogs, packs, suppliers and GTINs are applied and maintained against said manufacturing organizations and plants. Within PIM, multiple Manufacturing Bill Of Materials (mBOM) structures can be configured and applied per organization/plant. Simply put, a one to many ratio can exist in PIM, for example a single item design can be used in multiple factory locations with different configured structures and details per location.
In short PD is well suited for the design process and PDH for configured item manufacturing execution.
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As an Oracle partner, Point PLM is proud to announce that our team is certified in multiple Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud modules. This team is constantly growing its knowledge base and striving to educate others. The result is the development of informational videos highlighting Oracle SCM. Here is an Introduction to Oracle SCM Product Development:
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The PointPLM team has been hard at work re-inventing our website to better capture our products, services, and capabilities. Additionally, we have added a blog which will be used to facilitate communication with our customers. Watch for new entries on the blog soon as we add content helpful to the PLM community, including product news, features, and hints.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on our new site. Please email us with comments, questions, or suggestions: blog@pointplm.com
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