Product Expert, PLM and ERP

Translate your firsthand experience with PLM implementations, ERP configurations, and the broken handoffs between them into concrete product features your engineering partners can build.

Define how Altana captures the product model — components, materials, suppliers, origin determinations — in a way that is rich enough to support trade compliance, flexible enough to reflect real-world manufacturing variance, and structured enough to be machine-readable.

Serve as the internal authority on how enterprise product data is created, versioned, and consumed across the supply chain lifecycle, keeping product decisions grounded in operational reality.

You know these systems from the inside.

You have spent 5+ years working with PLM and ERP systems in an enterprise manufacturing, sourcing, or trade compliance context — not as a software vendor, but as someone who had to make them work together.

You've traced a component through a multi-level BOM, watched the as-sourced reality diverge from the as-designed spec, and dealt with the downstream consequences in procurement, manufacturing, and customs.

Altana's mission is to fix globalization.

At the heart of that mission is a problem most enterprises know intimately but haven't been able to solve: the systems that define, source, build, and ship products don't talk to each other — and the cracks between them are where compliance breaks down, duties are miscalculated, and supply chain risk hides in plain sight.

PLM systems know what a product is

ERP systems know what was

Trade and logistics systems know what was

In theory, these should tell a coherent story.