How Concepts, Requirements and Proposals Work Together

Concepts, requirements and proposals are intrinsically related.

Proposals

A Proposal contains all the business information for the concept. When you create a concept, a proposal of the same name is created; the converse applies as well. You can access a proposal from the Edit Concept page.

When you delete a proposal, the corresponding concept is also deleted. You can't delete a concept-proposal pair if the concept is in Submitted or Approved state. Deletion is possible only if both proposal and concept are in Draft state.

Concepts

Concepts address the technical design aspect of a product. You can't delete a concept which has a requirement assigned to it, without disassociating them first.

Requirements

Requirements are design specifications that serve as inputs for concept design in Innovation Management, or as inputs for detailed product design in Product Lifecycle Management. Requirements also help measure the completeness of a concept design.