Change a part and most manufacturers want a change order, a reviewer, a signature and a revision history. Change who that reviewer reports to and the record is usually a slide deck, an HR spreadsheet and an email from the VP. The org chart decides who is allowed to approve the part, yet it lives in a system that cannot see the part at all.
That gap shows up on the worst day. An auditor asks who had authority to release revision C in March. A buyer asks why a purchase order was approved by someone who had already moved to another plant. A division gets sold and nobody can say which engineers, which approvals and which vaulted designs go with it. Each answer means digging through exports from systems that never agreed on who anyone was.
In N23D, the company itself is managed in BUS on the same vault as the part. Reporting lines, roles and strategic goals change through the same approved-change workflow CCB uses for engineering, with a proposer, an approver and full history. Because the people and the parts share one record in one Rust binary, every PLM sign-off points at the role the signer actually held that day, and splitting off a division carries its people, approvals and designs as one set.
One platform. Full digital thread, and that thread includes who was allowed to sign. If your org chart cannot be audited the way your parts are, your approvals are only as good as last quarter’s slide deck.
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