Dean H. Stanton · Selected Work
Product Data Management, BOM & Engineering Change-Control System
Functional architecture and operating leadership for a governed product-data backbone connecting product masters, BOMs, routings, engineering history, manufacturing data, and legacy-system migration across regulated operations.
Results
Results and contributions.
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Situation
Operating context
PPI needed a governed product-data foundation that could connect engineering, product management, manufacturing, quality, warehouse execution, and commercialization across a large product portfolio while preserving important legacy business rules.
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Challenge
What made the work difficult
The system had to govern product, variant, SKU, subassembly, component, BOM, routing, work-instruction, equipment, and category data while maintaining audit history, engineering-change controls, legacy migration, and live operating continuity.
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Dean's role
Responsibility and authority
Dean authored functional designs and requirements for master data, search, history, reporting, BOM navigation, and user interaction. As General Manager and COO, he set priorities and directed implementation with software developers and cross-functional users.
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Actions
How the work moved forward
- Defined product, variant, SKU, subassembly, component, purchased-item, BOM, routing, work-instruction, equipment, and category master requirements.
- Specified search, cloning, navigation, created/modified history, engineering-change, and audit controls.
- Directed legacy product-data migration and replication requirements while preserving embedded business rules.
- Governed live, staging, defect, and post-go-live requirements across cross-functional users.