PLM (Pumpkin Lifecycle Management) is complex and challenging, especially variant management, because the variety of pumpkins is enormous. 🎃🎃🎃🎃
There’s the classic Halloween pumpkin, the butternut, the hokkaido, and not to forget the dreaded spaghetti squash! Each has its own needs, its own quirks. One wants more sun🌞, another less water🫗. And then there’s the pumpkin that only grows under a full moon 🌕 — a nightmare for the colleagues in production! Even the toughest zombie goes soft as butter, and the colleagues from the werewolf department have to mop up again. 🐺🧹
Sometimes a customer even wants their pumpkin in an oak-wood coffin⚰️ lined with bat wings🦇. Why? No idea. Maybe because someone thought it would be funny. Another wants their pumpkin with built-in lights💡 powered by the current of a rotten lemon. And the next one wants their pumpkin with an organic orange-metallic skin 🎃.
Variant management for pumpkins is like trying to coordinate a horde of hungry zombies 🧟🧟🧟 all shuffling in different directions. Besides the right processes and tools, you need experience and expertise to produce solid, grim-faced beauties rather than limp, smiling pumpkin soup 🎃🍜.
If you want to know more, or have your own experiences from spooky industries, feel free to leave a comment or send me a private message to exchange ideas 👻