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Some additional reasons why we need this feature -> Supplier collaboration! Aras talked a lot about this topic in the past webinars. And I agree! Using Innovator for suppliers collaboration has a lot of benefits. It helps to transfer accurate and up-to-date data and reduce emails communication.
So since a while I use Innovator to share BOM information and other data with suppliers. User´s like the platform and it does the job well! I spent a lot of time to make it a easy-to-use Innovator instance. It serves a lot of topics (not just BOM management) and is a nice reference instance for the flexibility of Innovator.
But each single time when I introduce new suppliers to the platform, at a certain moment I will receive this question: "When you send us new data, how can I compare this data to the previous versions?"
And I am always embarrassed to answer this question cause the only answer is: There a few ways and none of them works great.
But don´t worry, people of course found a solution! Some of them download the data or create Excel reports and use "Beyond Compare" to make a differential view.
Of course this works, but it hurts my PLM soul! We all want to get rid of Excel and Zip files transferred by email. Users should not be forced to leave the Innovator client to get some specific information. But without proper compare tool, Aras forces user back to use "file folders" and "Excel" just by design!
