Digitalization For The
CONSUMER PRODUCTS & RETAIL INDUSTRY
When consumers want it yesterday, be the first to make it and first to the market.
Today’s consumers are no longer concerned with just product quality and price, they now want to be part of a collaborative product experience. When a brand fails to deliver on these expectations, consumers will move on. As a result, product lifecycles are getting shorter. Leading companies are leveraging digital solutions to deliver innovation from concept to consumer with extraordinary speed to delight consumers and drive sustainable business growth.
It all begins with an idea or requirement. Maybe you want to find a smart & efficient way to digitize your engineering and manufacturing processes or tighten up your supplier collaboration. Or maybe you are looking for a solution to give you peace of mind when dealing with supply chain audits. Whatever it is, Siemens Digital Industries Software might be the right solution for you.
Program Lifecycle Collaboration
New product initiatives are key drivers for consumer product companies. This generates a need for adaptive tools that implement best practices for program and project management. Our integrated program lifecycle management solution merges conventional capabilities with product and production lifecycle management. It provides full process transparency, contributes detailed data to stakeholders for reliable decision making, and facilitates the reuse of intellectual property. This combination enables intuitive participation, easily controlled and monitored for the next step in managing your business.
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. Combined with a full integration of R&D and manufacturing, our food and beverage management software will streamline and optimize R&D related processes, for an unrivaled competitive advantage.
Package Design
Packaging is a brand’s best marketing vehicle, but it also must 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.
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.
Trends that are impacting your industry…
Speed to Market
Consumers are placing enormous pressure on brands and retailers to deliver on-trend products and make them available instantly.
Remote Working and Collaboration
The impact of COVID-19 has accelerated the use of digital tools to fuel product data visibility and collaboration internally and across the supply chain.
Increasingly Complex Supply Chains
Supply chains have become more global, unpredictable, and complex, forcing brands to be mindful of labor practices, sustainability, raw material costs, and tariffs.
Rise of Digital Consumers
Consumers are leveraging digital tools to find exactly what they want at the lowest possible price, creating tremendous competition in the market.