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PLM for consumer products from IBM
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| Enhance product-to-market processes
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Remain agile and competitive in the marketplace. Gain real-time access to data and synchronization across the product-to-market value chain. Tested and proven to drive product success, we deliver a comprehensive set of best practices, process diagnostics, organizational disciplines and enabling technologies. Manage your products’ complete lifespan more efficiently and effectively.
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| We possess leading analytics and industry depth
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Choose IBM for product life-cycle management. We combine compelling business process design and transformation with best-of-breed enabling technology.
- IBM solutions combine vast Consumer Products industry depth, an excellent understanding of your business processes and demonstrated implementation capabilities.
- IBM has more than 20,000 successful product life-cycle management implementations.
- We have over 1,000 professionals in 160 different countries dedicated to product life-cycle management.
- Our experienced consultants plan, develop and implement end-to-end solutions.
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| Enable better product innovation
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An enterprise-wide product life-cycle management solution from IBM can give you a set of integrated processes, organizational disciplines and tools to manage your products' complete lifespan.-
Improve idea generation and portfolio management with access to reusable organizational knowledge.
- Accelerate product development cycles by linking routine and automated workflow processes with assets, documents and specifications.
- Reduce design re-work and content re-creation with enterprise-wide access to real-time information and virtual libraries of intellectual capital.
- Gain product visibility and collaboration with access to project plans, status, timelines and milestones.
- Synchronize tasks in role-based environments.
- Improve resource allocation and prioritization by investing in and pursuing the best mix of product and package change configuration activities.
- Enhance productivity by reducing inefficiencies associated with prototypes, design iterations, advertising, tooling and contractor manufacturing.
- Enhance launch capabilities and market penetration with thorough project plans, diagnostics and master timelines.
- Implement new analytics and metrics to measure project and processes across departments and divisions to avoid repeated decision reevaluation and process breakdowns.
- Understand consumer behavior and improve marketing messages.
- Increase customer loyalty by implementing consumer-driven e-business tools to target specific buying segments.
- Increase regional distribution capabilities by matching products and packaging to regional specifications.
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| IBM in action
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We have helped food and beverage, confectionary, and health and beauty product manufacturers benefit from product life-cycle management solutions.
In one instance, a well-known U.S. confectionary corporation wanted to establish an efficient way to vault and share their engineering drawings in multiple plants across the U.S. The engineering department chose to integrate various components of the product life-cycle management solution from IBM. As a result, users are able to search, retrieve, manipulate, store and share vital digital assets through a single, robust platform. Users can collaborate efficiently with internal departments and with suppliers.
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| Realize greater return
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Better optimize your product development, production and launch expenses with a low risk and high return product life-cycle management solution.
- Make product modifications sooner, at less cost, and reduce unnecessary iterations with optimized processes.
- Streamline turnaround times and maximize productivity with increased information access, visibility and collaboration.
- Improve quality and ability to meet customer needs for increased market share.
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