Stryker <> Noetive | Supply Chain Foundation Pilot

How each workstream runs today (Click on a process below to see more)

W1 SKU Classification

SKU classification places each of Stryker's stock-keeping units (SKUs), its parts and products, in its taxonomy: first finished good or component, then the category. Today it is done by hand from the technical drawing, for one costing analysis at a time; no reclassification of all SKUs has been done. The category a system already holds is often wrong or empty, so misclassified SKUs drop out of a costing analysis unseen.

CLM-1069 — When Stryker classifies today, using what is transcribed as 'class kind of methods', it goes through the SKUs maybe 100 or 200 at a time. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2043 — The supply chain design lead said the people go into the system and pull up a drawing. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2045 — The supply chain design lead said the classification is based on the technical drawing. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2100 — The supply chain design lead said they classify against the common naming and then cost the part. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2099 — The supply chain design lead said they go in and classify each of Stryker's parts and products. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2042 — The supply chain design lead said a group of people in the broader team do this work manually. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2044 — The supply chain design lead said the people use tacit knowledge and experience to classify the component or product. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2098 — The supply chain design lead said these people work on it not full time, but quite a lot of time. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2047 — The supply chain design lead said the process is not very automatable with what Stryker uses today. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2041 — The supply chain design lead said the current categorization process is centered around the QMS data source. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-1072 — Global Item Master (GIM, transcribed 'GM') is a commercial database at Stryker. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-1075 — These systems are consulted in different ways to help classify what a product is. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-1071 — Encompass (transcribed 'encompasses') is a financial reporting tool at Stryker. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-1048 — Classifying with individuals is super slow. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-1050 — Classifying that many SKUs by individuals is just impossible. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-1092 — 50% of the items, or of the spend, is classified as 'other'. — the senior director for digital lean and portfolio · 2026-10-04
CLM-1093 — Items classified as 'other' turn out to belong in another category. — the senior director for digital lean and portfolio · 2026-10-04

Begins with: SKU list, Technical drawing, Taxonomy

Produces: SKU list

Critical questions

For an analysis, what decides whether the list is pulled from the Spend Cube or filtered from the Global Item Master?
What settles whether a SKU is a finished good or a component: the item master's mark, a sales order, a bill of materials it is used in, or the drawing?
When the category in the Global Item Master is empty, is the SKU still classified from its drawing, or set aside?
What on the drawing decides the category: what the part looks like, its material, the table at the bottom right, or something else? Is it written down anywhere?
Where is the taxonomy read while classifying: Lama.ai or the Power BI front end? Where is the chosen category written?
When the drawing shows the SKU belongs to the analysis but the system's category is wrong, is it costed in this analysis or only corrected?
Which SKUs in the reclassified Spend Cube were corrected, and how far can those corrections be trusted?

W1.1 Take up a batch of SKUs
The SKUs to classify for one costing analysis are taken up. The list is pulled from the Spend Cube for a category and its suppliers, or filtered from the Global Item Master by product type.
Steps
1. Pull the SKUs from the Spend Cube, or filter the Global Item Master by product type.
2. Work through the list in batches of about 100 to 200 SKUs.
Systems
- Spend Cube: the SKU list for an analysis.
- Global Item Master: the SKUs of one product type.
Output
The analysis's SKUs, to the lookup in the item systems.
Open questions
- critical For an analysis, what decides whether the list is pulled from the Spend Cube or filtered from the Global Item Master?
- Does the team take its 100 or 200 SKUs from one analysis's list, or from a queue of its own?
- Is a site-based SKU list still a use case, or only project lists?
Records
reads SKU list
W1.2 Consult the item systems
Each SKU is searched for in the Global Item Master: the other names it goes by, what was entered about it, and the category it already carries.
Steps
1. Look up the SKU in the Global Item Master.
2. Note its aliases: the other numbers and names the same item goes by.
3. Read its description and fields for what the item is.
4. Note whether it is marked a finished good or a component.
5. Note any category it already carries.
Systems
- Global Item Master: the SKU's aliases, fields and current category.
- Encompass: a financial reporting tool, consulted with other systems to help classify.
Output
The SKU's aliases, description and current category, to the drawing lookup.
Open questions
- critical What settles whether a SKU is a finished good or a component: the item master's mark, a sales order, a bill of materials it is used in, or the drawing?
- critical When the category in the Global Item Master is empty, is the SKU still classified from its drawing, or set aside?
- What is looked up in Encompass when classifying a SKU?
- Stryker's Data Sources slide lists seven systems. Which of them are checked when classifying, and for what?
  show the list
  Global Item Master (GIM)
  Encompass / Envision
  Spend Cube
  The ERPs, named on the slide
  Make Category Plan
  Coupa
  QMS: OnePLM, Agile Sage, Agile Endo, eCentral, MasterControl
Records
reads Global item master entry
W1.3 Pull up the technical drawing in the QMS
OnePLM is searched by the SKU's part number or its description, and the drawing is downloaded and saved. Today this is the same search as the drawing harvest (W2), done in one pass. A written work instruction sets out the search.
Steps
1. Search OnePLM for the SKU's part number.
2. If not found, add a leading zero or dashes to the part number and search again.
3. If still not found, search by the SKU's description.
4. Find the SKU's drawings among the documents the search returns.
5. Download the SKU's drawings and save them.
6. Where there are several across its lifecycle, review them one by one and take the latest.
System
- OnePLM (Windchill): SKU drawings, often 2D PDFs of CAD models.
Exception
When The search finds no drawing for the SKU.
Then Not known yet; see the open questions.
Exception
When One product has two SKUs, with and without dashes, and both have drawings.
Then Look at all the drawings under both SKUs, take the latest, and choose the SKU and drawing to use.
Output
The drawing, to classification.
Open questions
- When no drawing is found, what happens to that SKU?
Records
reads Technical drawing
W1.4 Classify the SKU against the common naming, checking it is what the system says
Each SKU's drawing is read to check that the SKU is what the system says it is, and the SKU is placed in its category of Stryker's taxonomy, from the drawing and from experience: a finished good in the product hierarchy, a component in the component hierarchy. The taxonomy is a database (Lama.ai) with a Power BI front end.
Steps
1. Read the drawing: the part, its measurements and its material.
2. Place a finished good in the product hierarchy, or a component in the component hierarchy.
Systems
- Lama.ai: the taxonomy the SKU is placed in.
- Power BI: the taxonomy's front end.
Decision
- Is the SKU what the system says it is?
- If yes: it goes on to costing.
- If no: it is left out of that analysis, and any correction goes to the reclassified Spend Cube (W1.5).
Output
Checked SKUs with their category, to costing; the rest, to the reclassified Spend Cube (W1.5).
Open questions
- critical What on the drawing decides the category: what the part looks like, its material, the table at the bottom right, or something else? Is it written down anywhere?
- critical Where is the taxonomy read while classifying: Lama.ai or the Power BI front end? Where is the chosen category written?
- critical When the drawing shows the SKU belongs to the analysis but the system's category is wrong, is it costed in this analysis or only corrected?
- Is classification done against the top-down taxonomy today, or against an older bottom-up version?
- When no category in the taxonomy fits a SKU, what is done?
- A SKU should belong to just one category. Is that a firm rule?
- When a SKU is checked against what the system says, is that the Spend Cube's category or the Global Item Master's?
Records
reads Technical drawing, Taxonomy; writes SKU list
W1.5 Correct the classification of the SKUs found wrong
The right category is written down for each SKU an analysis found wrongly categorized or uncategorized. The corrections go into a separate, reclassified copy of the Spend Cube, not back into the system.
Steps
1. Take each SKU the analysis found with a wrong category, or with none.
2. Write down its right category beside the old one.
3. Record it in the reclassified copy of the Spend Cube.
System
- Spend Cube: its reclassified copy, which holds the corrections.
Output
The corrected categories, in the reclassified Spend Cube.
Open questions
- critical Which SKUs in the reclassified Spend Cube were corrected, and how far can those corrections be trusted?
Records
writes Corrected classification list

W2 QMS/PLM Drawing and Data Harvesting

Drawing and data harvesting pulls the technical drawing of each stock-keeping unit (SKU) on a list out of the quality management system (QMS), for classifying and costing. Today it is done by hand: the QMS is searched one SKU at a time, and the SKU's drawings are downloaded and reviewed for the one to use. A project can hold thousands of SKUs and take days to harvest, and the SKU numbers on a list do not always match the QMS.

CLM-4050 — For a supplier analysis the team takes that supplier's list of SKUs and harvests all the drawings to start the costing. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-5112 — Today people filter the global master item list for a type of product, take the SKUs, and search for each SKU in the QMS system. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-5122 — A SKU can have multiple drawings and multiple ways to search for it, depending on its lifecycle stage. — the data scientist and AI engineer · 2026-10-04
CLM-3009 — The new technology scout said Stryker's drawings, work instructions and router steps are all in a server called Windchill. — the new technology scout · 2026-10-04
CLM-4049 — The team goes manually into the QMS system, searches for the drawings, downloads and saves them, and then does the categorization. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-5114 — They download the drawing so they can then do the drawing processing and costing. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4069 — The team spends a lot of time going through the QMS, getting the drawings out and reviewing what each SKU is. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-8210 — Technical drawings are extracted from the QMS by hand. — 2026-10-04
CLM-5145 — Right now people have to go through the SKUs one by one. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4022 — Out of that list the costing team harvested the data for all the SKUs and drawings and then did the costing. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2092 — A Stryker contributor said the GIM, the global item master, holds all the aliases of what a SKU could be. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2093 — A Stryker contributor said that from a SKU list one would check which alias is the one used in the QMS, then search the drawing. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4047 — The data-harvesting part sometimes takes days for a single project. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2091 — A Stryker contributor said the problem is that a site's SKU list is not always the same SKU list used in the QMS. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-6168 — You cannot find the drawings because the SKUs are not classified correctly. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04

Begins with: SKU list, Technical drawing

Produces: Technical drawing

Critical questions

The number on the list does not always match the one the QMS uses, and the Global Item Master holds each SKU's aliases. Does it show which alias the QMS uses, or must each be searched?
Does a harvest search only OnePLM, or also Agile Sage, Agile Endo, eCentral or MasterControl? How is it known which one holds a SKU's drawing?
Of a recent project's SKUs, how many had a drawing in OnePLM, how many in another quality management system (QMS), and how many none at all? When none is found, what is done with that SKU?
Does OnePLM mark a drawing's lifecycle state (released, in work, obsolete), and is the drawing picked on that mark or on its date?
Bills of materials and routings are expected to come out of OnePLM; today only the drawing is pulled and both are worked out from it. Does OnePLM hold them, for these parts, in a form that can be pulled?

W2.1 Build the list of SKUs
The harvest starts from the stock-keeping unit (SKU) list of a costing analysis: pulled from the Spend Cube for a supplier or a category, or filtered from the Global Item Master by product type. Today it is the same list as the classification's (W1.1), worked in one pass by the same team. The number on the list is the one searched, and it does not always match the number the quality management system (QMS) holds.
Steps
1. Take the costing analysis's SKU list (W1.1).
2. Take each SKU's number, as listed, to the OnePLM search.
Systems
- Spend Cube: the SKUs for a supplier or a category.
- Global Item Master: the SKUs of one product type, and each SKU's aliases.
Output
Each SKU's number as listed, to the OnePLM search.
Open questions
- critical The number on the list does not always match the one the QMS uses, and the Global Item Master holds each SKU's aliases. Does it show which alias the QMS uses, or must each be searched?
Records
reads SKU list
W2.2 Search the QMS for the part number
Each stock-keeping unit (SKU) on the list is searched for, one at a time, in the screens of OnePLM, in many cases the main quality management system (QMS). The QMS is searched rather than the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems at each site, because it is the more central source of data.
Steps
1. Open the OnePLM search screens.
2. Search OnePLM for the SKU's part number as listed.
3. Check whether the SKU is among the OnePLM results.
System
- OnePLM: the part-number search screens.
Decision
- Is the SKU found under its part number as listed?
- If yes: find and download the SKU's drawings among the results.
- If no: reformat the number and search again.
Output
The search results, to the download of the SKU's drawings or to a reformatted search.
Open questions
- critical Does a harvest search only OnePLM, or also Agile Sage, Agile Endo, eCentral or MasterControl? How is it known which one holds a SKU's drawing?
Records
reads SKU list
W2.3 Search again with the number reformatted
When the number as listed finds nothing, its format is changed by the work instruction for the drawing search and OnePLM is searched again. A drawing sometimes carries the stock-keeping unit (SKU) in a different format from the list's.
Steps
1. Add a leading zero or dashes to the part number, by the work instruction's steps.
2. Search OnePLM again under the reformatted number.
3. Where both the listed and the reformatted number find drawings, keep both results.
4. Check whether the SKU is among the OnePLM results.
System
- OnePLM: the same search, under the reformatted part number.
Decision
- Is the SKU found once the number is reformatted?
- If yes: find and download the SKU's drawings among the results.
- If no: search OnePLM by the SKU's description.
Output
The search results, to the download of the SKU's drawings or to the description search.
Open questions
- What does the work instruction set out for the search, step by step, and does it apply to every quality management system (QMS) or only to OnePLM?
- How often does the search need the reformatted number, and how often the description?
- When a drawing is found under an alias that is a different number, not the listed number with a zero or dashes, is it taken for the SKU?
Records
reads SKU list, Costing work instruction
W2.4 Search by the description
Once neither the number as listed nor the reformatted number finds the stock-keeping unit (SKU), OnePLM is searched by the SKU's description. A drawing sometimes carries the SKU's description rather than its part number.
Steps
1. Search OnePLM by the SKU's description instead of its number.
2. Check whether the OnePLM results include the SKU.
System
- OnePLM: the same search, by the SKU's description.
Exception
When The description search does not find the SKU's drawing either.
Then Not known yet; see the open questions.
Output
The search results, to the download of the SKU's drawings.
Open questions
- critical Of a recent project's SKUs, how many had a drawing in OnePLM, how many in another quality management system (QMS), and how many none at all? When none is found, what is done with that SKU?
- Where is the description for this search taken from: the SKU list, or the Global Item Master?
Records
reads SKU list
W2.5 Find and download the SKU's drawings
The drawings among a OnePLM search's results for the stock-keeping unit (SKU) are found and all downloaded, before any one is picked. A SKU can have several drawings, depending on its lifecycle stage.
Steps
1. Find the SKU's drawings among the documents the OnePLM search returned.
2. Download every one of the SKU's drawings from OnePLM, before any is picked.
System
- OnePLM: the SKU's drawings among the search results, to download.
Output
All of the SKU's drawings, downloaded, to the review one by one.
Open questions
- How are the SKU's drawings told apart from the other documents in the results: by document type, by name, by a filter, or by opening each one?
- Do the documents a OnePLM search returns depend on whose account runs it?
Records
reads Technical drawing
W2.6 Pick the drawing to use
The downloaded drawings of the stock-keeping unit (SKU) are reviewed one by one, and one is picked: most of the time, the latest. For costing, the pick is the drawing with the most detail and the most up to date for the part being costed.
Steps
1. Review the SKU's downloaded drawings one by one.
2. Pick the drawing to use: most of the time, the latest.
System
- System not named yet.
Decision
- Does the component have drawings for several metals, with the costing for one metal?
- If yes: use the most up-to-date drawing for that metal, not the latest overall.
- If no: use the latest drawing.
Exception
When One product has two SKUs with drawings: one with zeros and dashes, one with the same zeros and no dashes.
Then Review all the drawings under both, find the latest, and pick the SKU and drawing to use.
Output
The one drawing to use for the part, to saving for the classifying and costing.
Open questions
- critical Does OnePLM mark a drawing's lifecycle state (released, in work, obsolete), and is the drawing picked on that mark or on its date?
Records
reads Technical drawing
W2.7 Save the chosen drawing
The drawing picked for the stock-keeping unit (SKU) is saved for the classifying and costing, and the search starts over for each other SKU on the project's list. Only the drawing is pulled; the bill of materials and the processes are worked out from it (W3).
Steps
1. Save the chosen drawing for the classifying and costing.
System
- System not named yet.
Output
The saved drawing, to classifying each SKU and to the drawing processing and costing.
Open questions
- critical Bills of materials and routings are expected to come out of OnePLM; today only the drawing is pulled and both are worked out from it. Does OnePLM hold them, for these parts, in a form that can be pulled?
- Where is the chosen drawing saved?
- On a recent project, about how long did the harvest take?
Records
writes Technical drawing
W2.8 Retrieve the drawing through the Windchill services
A path in place of the search and download: OnePLM's Windchill representational state transfer application programming interface (API) takes a stock-keeping unit's (SKU's) part number to its drawing's PDF. It was tried on two example parts in August 2026; no harvest uses it today. The API is unlocked; reading through it needs a Noetive service account, which probably waits for approval.
Steps
1. Look up the part by its SKU number through the Windchill API.
2. Follow the link from the part to the documents that describe it.
3. Follow that link through to the document it points to.
4. Read the document's main content and download the PDF from its address.
System
- OnePLM: its Windchill API, from part number to PDF.
Exception
When The path does not reach the drawing, since the structure behind a part may differ.
Then Reach the drawing through a different path.
Output
The drawing's PDF, to the drawing processing and costing.
Open questions
- Does Stryker's own team use the API today, or only the search screens?
- When the path misses a drawing, which other path is taken: another route through the API, or the search?
Records
reads SKU list; writes Technical drawing

W3 Drawing, Process and Costing Feasibility

Costing feasibility works out a part's should-cost from its bill of materials and processes, for a make versus buy or a product transfer; a should-cost helps check vendor quotes, some set low to win the business. Today it is done by hand, across tens of analyses at once that can hold thousands of stock-keeping units (SKUs) each, for existing products, maybe 100 new products a year and 2 or 3 acquisitions a year, which may take most of the analysis; the first should-cost for a type of product takes probably a week or more. Costing a move (W3.5 to W3.8) goes back to the part's earlier costing: the cost is broken out, the elements that change are pointed out, and it is put back together for the new place; which products to look at moving is judged on experience.

CLM-4049 — The team goes manually into the QMS system, searches for the drawings, downloads and saves them, and then does the categorization. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-5114 — They download the drawing so they can then do the drawing processing and costing. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4024 — The costing team has a working instruction for costing and can share it. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4053 — How the team calculates the internal production cost is part of the working-instruction documentation Stryker is going to share. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4029 — There is a lot of literature and tool handbooks on costing, which the team mentioned. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2079 — A Stryker contributor said the costing people have a repository of products they have already costed. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2099 — The supply chain design lead said they go in and classify each of Stryker's parts and products. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2100 — The supply chain design lead said they classify against the common naming and then cost the part. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-4052 — The team would calculate the cost of producing the SKU internally. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4105 — The new technology scout thinks a should-cost model for a part such as a blade is built up from the manufacturing steps. — the new technology scout · 2026-10-04
CLM-2120 — The supply chain design lead said moving production changes the cost structure entirely. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2174 — The supply chain design lead said what they do today is deconstruct that cost. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2070 — A Stryker contributor said the person extracts any components and creates a bill of materials from them. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2071 — A Stryker contributor said the person then costs that bill of materials. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2074 — A Stryker contributor said the person costs both the process and the components. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4026 — The team inputs some parameters into the Siemens system and it calculates the costing. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4113 — The Siemens tool is like a database of manufacturing processes and steps. — the new technology scout · 2026-10-04
CLM-4022 — Out of that list the costing team harvested the data for all the SKUs and drawings and then did the costing. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-2122 — The supply chain design lead said moving a part already costed is easier, because they go back to it and recost it. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2121 — The supply chain design lead said for a fresh part never looked at before, they look at the drawing and come up with the process and the cost. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-2176 — The supply chain design lead said they then reconstruct the cost and put it back together. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04
CLM-4025 — The team uses a Siemens system for costing, which is basically a big calculator. — a Stryker contributor · 2026-10-04
CLM-4106 — Building a should-cost model the first time takes a good amount of effort, probably a week or more. — the new technology scout · 2026-10-04
CLM-4108 — One should-cost effort was a full project that took months, because the team was working out how to put the process steps together. — the new technology scout · 2026-10-04
CLM-4116 — The Siemens tool is a database, so its costs are only as accurate as the data inside it. — the new technology scout · 2026-10-04
CLM-2118 — The supply chain design lead said the variation comes in the costing element. — the supply chain design lead · 2026-10-04

Begins with: Technical drawing, Costing work instruction, Costing handbook, Approved cost analysis, SKU list

Produces: Should-cost model

Critical questions

How is it known that a part was costed before, who decides to recost it rather than start fresh, and what is done when its earlier costing cannot be found in the repository?
For a part Stryker already makes, is its current process read from a system, or always worked out from the drawing? If from a system, which one: OnePLM, an ERP, Coupa or the Make Category Plan?
When the process steps are not known, what is guessed, and how often does that happen?
Where do the labor and overhead rates for each site come from, how are they dated, and does a region's figure stand for one site or several?

W3.1 Read the drawing
The drawing harvested from the quality management system (QMS) in workstream 2 is read for a part never costed before: its components, measurements, material and specifics.
Steps
1. Open the part's drawing, downloaded and saved in workstream 2.
2. Read the drawing's parts list, or read it top to bottom where there is none.
3. Read the measurements given beside each part across the drawing.
4. Read the material and other specifics from the drawing's table.
System
- System not named yet.
Decision
- Is this a move of a part already costed?
- If yes: go back to its earlier costing (W3.5).
- If no: read the drawing.
Output
The parts, measurements, material and specifics read off the drawing, to the bill of materials (W3.2).
Open questions
- critical How is it known that a part was costed before, who decides to recost it rather than start fresh, and what is done when its earlier costing cannot be found in the repository?
Records
reads Technical drawing
W3.2 Extract the components and create the bill of materials
The part's bill of materials is built from the components on its drawing. Three answers were given for where a bill of materials sits: not on the drawing, in pieces beside each part on the drawing, and in the quality management system (QMS) and the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Steps
1. Go through the drawing and pick out each component.
2. Collect any pieces of the bill of materials shown beside the parts.
3. Create the part's bill of materials from those components.
System
- System not named yet.
Output
The bill of materials, to the costing (W3.4).
Open questions
- Are the bills of materials held in OnePLM, another QMS or a site's ERP ever used instead of the drawing?
- Where is the bill of materials written down: in the Siemens tool, in Excel, or somewhere else?
Records
reads Technical drawing; writes Bill of materials
W3.3 Work out the manufacturing processes
The processes that make the part are worked out from its drawing, which does not list them, and classified in Stryker's process hierarchy. A part's current process sits in OnePLM, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, Coupa or the Make Category Plan; perhaps no one system holds it.
Steps
1. Work out each process from the drawing, or from Stryker's own plants if Stryker makes it.
2. Classify the processes in Stryker's process hierarchy.
System
- System not named yet.
Exception
When A process step is not known.
Then It is guessed.
Output
The part's processes, to the costing (W3.4).
Open questions
- critical For a part Stryker already makes, is its current process read from a system, or always worked out from the drawing? If from a system, which one: OnePLM, an ERP, Coupa or the Make Category Plan?
- critical When the process steps are not known, what is guessed, and how often does that happen?
- When the processes are classified, are their categories read from Lama.ai, or from somewhere else?
Records
reads Technical drawing; writes Process route
W3.4 Cost the processes and the components
The part is priced in the Siemens costing tool, following the standard working instruction for costing. The internal cost is set against the cost of buying the part in the Spend Cube, for the make versus buy.
Steps
1. Take the bill of materials (W3.2) and the processes (W3.3).
2. Enter the parameters in the Siemens tool, including where the part is made.
3. Let the Siemens tool calculate the cost of each process, material and part.
4. Set the internal cost against the cost of buying the part in the Spend Cube.
5. Check that the completed analysis adds up, by one of the reviewers.
Systems
- Siemens costing tool: calculates the cost from the parameters entered.
- Spend Cube: the cost of buying the part.
Output
The part's internal cost, a dollar range for its region, to the make versus buy.
Open questions
- When is a part's cost built from its processes, and when does a vendor quote stand in for it?
- Are benchmarks and handbooks used when a process is costed today? If so, which ones, and where are they kept?
- What counts as a finished costing: the reviewer's check that it adds up, an approval, or the make versus buy decision?
- On a recent project, how many hours did the costing take?
Records
reads Process route, Costing work instruction, Costing handbook, Bill of materials; writes Should-cost model, Bill of materials
W3.5 Go back to the part's earlier costing
A part already costed that may move to another site, country or supplier is recosted from its earlier costing. Make versus buy is analyzed for chosen products and suppliers, and transfers by product family, by the Plant Network team; which products to look at moving is judged on experience.
Steps
1. Set the move: what moves, from where, to where.
2. Find the part's earlier costing in the costing repository or the handbooks of approved analyses.
3. Clean and check the data in Excel before the analysis.
Systems
- Excel: the move analysis; its data cleaned and checked here.
- Optimization tools: used with Excel for the move analysis.
Output
The earlier costing, to the cost break-out (W3.6).
Open questions
- Which figures from the earlier costing are reused in a recost, and which are redone?
- Where is the repository of products already costed kept?
Records
reads Should-cost model; writes Should-cost model
W3.6 Break the cost into its key components
The part's earlier cost is broken out into raw material, labor spend and overheads, in Stryker's set way of looking at its cost structure.
Steps
1. Take the earlier costing apart into raw material, labor spend and overheads, in Stryker's set way.
System
- Excel: the move analysis is worked here.
Output
The cost broken out by raw material, labor spend and overheads, to the elements a move changes (W3.7).
Open questions
- critical Where do the labor and overhead rates for each site come from, how are they dated, and does a region's figure stand for one site or several?
- Is a new part's cost also broken into raw material, labor and overheads, or only when production may move?
- Is the break-out done in the analysis's Excel workbook, in the Siemens tool, or somewhere else?
- Can today's make and buy costs be broken out this way for every part, or only where an earlier costing exists?
Records
reads Approved cost analysis
W3.7 Point out the elements that change
Each element of the broken-out cost that changes at the new place is pointed out, since moving production changes the cost structure entirely.
Steps
1. Point out each element of the cost that changes at the new place.
System
- Excel: the move analysis is worked here.
Exception
When The move is between countries.
Then Taxes and other country constraints are weighed too.
Output
The elements that change, to the rebuild of the cost (W3.8).
Open questions
- Which elements are pointed out as changing, besides labor and overheads?
- Are taxes and the other country constraints part of the cost, or weighed later in the decision?
Records
reads Should-cost model; writes Should-cost model
W3.8 Reconstruct the cost
The part's cost is put back together for the new place of production and set against its current cost, for the decision on the move.
Steps
1. Put the cost back together for the new place of production.
2. Set it against the part's current cost.
3. Check that the completed analysis adds up, by one of the reviewers.
System
- Excel: the move analysis is worked here.
Output
The cost at the new place of production, against the current cost, to the decision on the move.
Open questions
- Is a move's cost reviewed the same way as a fresh costing?
- What does the decision on a move need beside the rebuilt cost: the yearly volume, the one-time costs of the move, and the months a supplier change takes?
Records
reads Should-cost model; writes Should-cost model

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How each workstream runs today (Click on a process below to see more)

The systems

S17 Spend Cube

S8 Global Item Master

S6 Encompass

S10 OnePLM (Windchill)

S12 Other QMS systems

S15 SharePoint

S9 Lama.ai

S13 Power BI

S16 Siemens costing tool

S7 Excel

S11 Optimization tools

What each system holds

Azure

CogM dashboard

Coupa

Data lake

ERPs

Encompass

Excel

Global Item Master

Lama.ai

OnePLM (Windchill)

Optimization tools

Other QMS systems

Power BI

Power Platform

SharePoint

Siemens costing tool

Spend Cube

Stryker data centers

Stryker-hosted virtual machine

Questions for the call