Consumer Products & Retail
Digitalization for the Consumer Products and Retail Industry
Consumer products companies must transform to handle dramatic shifts in the market. Globalization, increased regulatory demands, mobile commerce and changes in consumer behavior are driving consumer products companies to redefine speed-to-market and the required agility of supply chains. Companies can no longer manage complexity without a digital business imperative. Our best practices and software solutions advance the digitalization of consumer products across the enterprise value chain.
Industry Segments
Apparel, Footwear & Accessories
Digitalization to transform the fashion industry and deliver personalization
Sporting Goods & Toys
Integrated design, simulation and testing tools for the delivery of smart products
Home & Office Goods
Integrated solutions to design and plan collections, configure products and maximize efficiency in Home & Office Goods industry
Home Appliances & Tools
Smart household devices designed to make life easier by performing various tasks
Food & Beverage
Solutions for food safety, compliance and manufacturing excellence
Beauty, Personal & Home Care
Integrated solutions to optimize design, agility, traceability and program execution
Retail
Our solutions are helping retailers prepare for the future by recognizing that delivering innovation requires a broad ecosystem of partners is the key to long-term success
Featured Solutions
Where portfolio and product lifecycle management (PLM) meet
Providing a complete story of a product’s lifecycle, while merging conventional capabilities using product and production lifecycle management information from a single source. Integrated Program & Lifecycle Management enables companies to gain full process transparency, share detailed data to stakeholders for reliable decision making and facilitate the reuse of the intellectual property. This combination enables intuitive participation, easily controlled and monitored for the next step in managing your product portfolio and business processes
Formulated Product Design for Food & Beverage
Customers demand innovative products that are healthy, environmentally friendly, and low-priced. This puts tremendous pressure on food product design. Reducing time-to-market and improving flexibility and efficiency requires sophisticated formula design, simulation, and management capabilities, including management of detailed material characteristics, efficient candidate selection mechanisms, and parameterization of quality testing.
Laboratory Management
Consumer interest in the quality of products has increased drastically, including how a product might affect consumer health, the demand for high quality ingredients, the quality production processes and sustainability. Government and non-government organizations are responding with new regulations. The digitalization of laboratory processes will ensure the verification and quality of product and production and will provide companies the ability to accelerate new product introduction in a way that wins the hearts of the new discerning millennial consumer.
Package Design
Packaging is a brand’s best marketing vehicle, but it also has to perform under daily use. Designers must deal with environmental compliance, faster product cycles due to social media, and new levels of mechanical stress with online commerce on the rise. Our suite of package design and visualization capabilities enables designers to create consumer-preferred packages with structural integrity and the assurance of efficient and effective manufacture worldwide.