Semiconductor Solution

Sustaining the Semiconductor Industry to Maximize Product Development Success through Collaborative Portfolio Management Solutions

Click to enlarge		According to a recent semiconductor industry study, benchmarking statistics show that best-in-class semiconductor companies are 65% more effective at deriving new-product profits from their R&D investments than average semiconductor companies. Best in Class companies also deliver 18% more new products to the marketplace with an average time-to-market 18% faster. (Most semiconductor companies are decreasing their average time-to-market by 20-25% per year.) Consequently,
Best in class semiconductor companies have enjoyed 53% higher revenue growth, resulting in a 43% profit advantage over the rest of the industry.

InventX^™ Solution

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InventX™ Semiconductor solutions offer SP2M™ system, which is a set of procedures, templates, and reviews used by all the development groups, to help achieve consistent project execution excellence through sound project management and selection. InventX™ Semiconductor solutions aim at transforming the “average” semiconductor companies to the “Best in Class” companies within a reasonably short period and sustain the “Best in Class” companies to preserve its competitive spirit within the Industry.

Product Development Maturity Levels
Industry studies have shown that amidst the five levels of Product Development Maturity phases (depicted below), 80% of the semiconductor companies fall in Level 1 (Information Management) and Level 2 (Functional Excellence) phases. Studies also reveal that companies can expect a 20% to 40% gain in productivity as they move up each level from Level 2 to Level 5 of the Maturity Model.

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InventX^™ Role
InventX^™’s Collaborative Portfolio Management Solutions helps the semiconductor companies to attain Project Excellence, Portfolio Excellence, and Cross Enterprise Excellence thereby ensuring 20% to 40% increase in Productivity and significant Return on Investments (ROI). Using InventX^™’s SP²M™ Portfolio product, companies have implemented the Cooper Stage/Gate Process in their product development activity.

Strategic Benefits

	On-time completion of companies commitments to customers.
	Optimizes project options, project prioritization and selection, strategic resource allocation, and portfolio valuation.
	More efficient use of development resources and budgets.
	Reduce process cycle times.
	Improve time-to-market for new products.
	Make better decisions faster.
	Leverage dynamic business relationships.
	Manage/share knowledge effectively.
	Integrate multiple environments.
	Better customer satisfaction and stronger customer relationships.
	More design-in-wins.
	Improved net revenue / wafer..

Functional Benefits
Planning templates that incorporate enterprise experience and knowledge into the planning process. This minimizes the risk of repeating past mistakes, and provides an effective means for transferring accurate and up-to-date information.

	To comprehend the status of the project portfolio, thanks to complete, accurate, and timely project data.
	To balance risks, constraints, customer demands, resources, and strategic objectives.

A Superior Solution!
InventX^™ Solutions are designed completely based on Industry Standard Methodologies and Best Practices (Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge [PMBOK], Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model [CMM]). The core strength of InventX^™ solution is its ability to provide each customer with built-in tools, enabling the customer to tailor the solution to their industry and business requirements. For instance, a semiconductor company must track definite data during the implementation of the projects concerning die size, wafer size, die cost, assembly test yields, and more. This customization is done at the enterprise level, yet can be driven down to the portfolio, project, document, and issue tracking level. Some of the sample screenshots are shown below:

Summary of our Proposed Customization Benefits for the semiconductor companies:

	Helps the semiconductor companies align various Research & Development programs with its Strategic goals and objectives.
	At a tactical level, facilitates the managers to allocate the significant resources within & outside the organization to critical products/product lines.

InventX^™’s SP²M™.EIS (Executive Information System) reporting tool then enables the appropriate authorized executives/managers to run real-time reports via the web on these attributes along with other key project information.

Summary
InventX^™’s primary semiconductor market segments are Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs), Wafer, Assembly, and Test Foundry companies, Fabless companies, and Silicon Wafer manufacturing companies. InventX^™ Semiconductor solutions offer the following High-level Business Benefits for the Product Development & Engineering Community within these market segments:

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