CASE STUDY
Case Study: Nite Ize
Oracle Product Development Cloud and Product Hub Implementations
Executive Summary
Nite Ize, a renowned manufacturer of consumer lifestyle innovations, faced challenges with product development due to siloed systems and lack of visibility. Partnering with Domain Systems and Oracle, they implemented the Oracle Product Development Cloud and Product Hub.
This transformation led to enhanced visibility, improved communication, and anticipated improvements in innovation and product quality. Dive into this case study to explore how Nite Ize streamlined their processes, aiming for efficiency in development lead time and product quality.
Client Case at a Glance
- Customer: Nite Ize
- Background: Nite Ize is a CPG manufacturer of consumer lifestyle innovations, best known for consumer travel, mobile devices, fitness and pet accessories.Nite Ize had been using various homegrown systems to manage their product content. Their environment was a comprisal of applications, like CAD (SolidWorks), Quality Documents, Compliance Documents, work instruction, etc.
- Industry: Consumer Packaged Goods/ Consumer Electronics
- Revenue: $200,000,000/ yr
- Headquarters: Boulder, CO
- Key People:
- Dale Karacostas, VP of Innovation
- Jeff Slock, Director of IT
- Mike Boyd, CEO
- Website: www.niteize.com
Challenges
With a growing portfolio of more than 1,000 unique individual products it became clear that coordinating product development via siloed artifacts was unsustainable – particularly as revisions and requirements changed.
Nite Ize partnered with Domain Systems and Oracle to fix:
- Lack of visibility
- Data silos
- Poor lead time
- Too much time spent searching for information
The Solution
Nite Ize chose Oracle Cloud because of reputation, capabilities and breadth of solution.
- Oracle Product Development Cloud
- Oracle Product Data Hub Cloud
- MyOracle Support
- Advanced Customer Service
- Domain Systems Professional Services
Delivery
Nite Ize selected Domain Systems as their partner for their track record of reliability and timely project completions.
Impelementation Process
- Workshops to understand the requirements of the solution – based on current process/technology
- Model the ‘item’, ‘change’ and any other objects
- Review
- Adjustments, as needed
- Migrate sample data and conduct Conference Room Pilots
- Training
- Migrate to Production the configuration and Data
- Go Live
Results
Nite Ize’s goal from the beginning was to be more efficient with development lead time, reduce waste with both product and workforce and continue providing high quality products.
Immediate
- ✔ Increased visibility
- ✔ Increased central repository
- ✔ Improved change assessment ability
- ✔ Improved communication
Anticipated
- ✔ Improve innovation timeframe
- ✔ Deliver a higher quality product
- ✔ Improve development timeframes
“Using Domain Systems as our partner was great. Their knowledge about the capabilities and business framework was clear by the control mechanisms and feature sets they put in place. They are a true end-toend PLM Consulting firm.”
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