Earn more money with better processes and proper data management. The manufacturing industry has a cost problem. Revenue is good, but profits are too low. The cause lies in poorly organized work processes and similarly inadequate data management in the upstream areas of product development as well as in work and process planning. The author has developed solutions for this problem based on years of consulting experience. In this book, you will learn: how to make the production factor of information consistently usable across all levels of value creation, how to build an IT system landscape that connects projects, processes, and data while linking data to information, and what a transparent IT work platform looks like that is available to all process participants, including customers and suppliers when needed.