Best thing for me is the flattened BOM and rollup feature. Earlier in Excel if we changed quantity of one sub-assembly, someone has to manually recalculate everything down the line - now it automatically rolls up cost and quantity across the whole structure. Second thing is multiple team members can work on same BOM at same time without "final_v2_FINAL.xlsx" type nonsense. Our purchase person sees the same live data as design team, so no more ordering from outdated list. Also catalogs are genuinely useful - we reuse lot of connectors, fasteners, marine grade hardware across products, so once item is in catalog with vendor details and cost, next BOM is much faster to build. Honestly for a small team without a full PLM budget, it gives 80% of PLM benefit at fraction of cost.

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Very convenient integration of PLM and PDM tools that provides a unified UX. Good support when issues do come up.