Consumer Goods Digital Thread
Revolutionize consumer product development
Digitally transform your consumer product development processes adopting integrated lifecycle management practices to rapidly innovate and bring new products to market faster. Enhance flexibility, optimize collaboration, and leverage intellectual property more effectively with an integrated approach
Accelerate your consumer product development today
Consumer goods companies face a variety of challenges. Having the flexibility to accelerate consumer product development is crucial amid fast-changing consumer preferences, regulatory requirements, supply chain instability and sustainability concerns. Simple improvements won’t cut it. You must invest in changes that enhance flexibility and adaptability and allow for faster portfolio launches.
Adopt integrated consumer product lifecycle management
An integrated lifecycle management approach allows you to connect all the product information so the artwork designer, product manager, brand manager, marketing manager and anyone else associated with the lifecycle of a new product or line extension works from a single source of truth.
Reduced product development time
Streamline complex product lifecycles and reduce development time by up to 30%. (Electrolux)
Reduced costs
Achieve a 20% reduction in costs by digitalizing factory operations. Gain efficiencies and improve quality through advanced, integrated production processes. (Electrolux)
Efficiency in product data search
Accelerate decision-making and reduce development cycles with efficient product data retrieval, allowing for more focus on innovation and design. (Joyoung)
Improve your consumer product design process
Solve the complexities of consumer product development with proven digital strategies.
Optimize processes, reduce time-to-market and harness innovation for efficient, sustainable execution. Explore the three key areas of integrated lifecycle management developed to meet your needs:
Seamlessly align your branding strategy, program management, and product development to ensure consistency and enhance market responsiveness.
- Forge a cohesive identity across all product development stages
- Synchronize program management with product lifecycles
- Elevate brand value with consistent and strategic product offerings
Maximize the potential of existing innovations to speed development processes, reduce costs, and drive sustainability in product creation.
- Harness existing intellectual property to innovate efficiently
- Reduce development time with a rich repository of reusable assets
- Control SKU proliferation, maintaining brand integrity across product lines
Adopt a more adaptable execution model that allows for rapid response to market changes and reduces time from concept to consumer.
- Employ adaptive planning for responsive and agile project execution
- Shift from rigid to flexible processes, allowing for rapid market adaptation
- Launch initiatives quickly, transitioning from months to weeks without sacrificing quality
BSH
Leveraging an open, web-based, easy-to-use solution to standardize process planning across plants
Company:BSH Home Appliances
Industry:Consumer products & retail
Location:Munich, Germany
Siemens Software:Teamcenter, Tecnomatix
Teamcenter is very helpful for Joyoung in terms of both data management and business management. It has enhanced Joyoung’s business process, making work more systematic and efficient.
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Integrate, innovate and execute with agility in consumer product development. Discover how reusing innovation assets and applying efficient, flexible execution strategies can dramatically reduce time-to-market and foster sustainable growth. Unlock the full potential of your brand and products with integrated lifecycle management.
Explore proven consumer product design solutions
Product lifecycle management
Program management
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Frequently asked questions
Design and conceptualization can often be the most time-consuming stages, as this is where ideas are scrutinized for market fit and return on investment. To accelerate this phase, our approach leverages a digital backbone that connects data and processes, enabling swift progress from ideation to detailed design and reducing time spent on rework due to late-stage discoveries.
Key features to look for ensure seamless data integration and support agile adaptation to shifting project scopes. The right PLM software will offer robust data management and collaborative tools fostering innovation and significantly trimming development timelines.
Enhance your manufacturing process with advanced, integrated product lifecycle solutions that enable real-time data tracking and decision-making. Our solutions help streamline production planning, leading to more efficient operations and maintaining high-quality output.
A robust PLM solution improves your brand by ensuring consistent product quality and compliance, accelerating market readiness, driving innovation and fostering a supply chain that's responsive to evolving consumer demands.
Essential information for new production designs includes detailed product specifications, compliance standards and manufacturing capabilities. Strategic market entry timing and interdisciplinary collaboration are crucial to robust design.
Learn more
Watch
Video | Take your consumer product initiatives 3x faster to market
On-demand webinar | Enabling excellence with Integrated Lifecycle Management
Video | Discover the power of cloud-based PLM with Siemens Teamcenter X
Listen
Podcast | How digital threads help manufacturers thrive
Read
Blog | The next transformative force of innovation, efficiency, and sustainability
White paper | Transforming the CPG industry
Infographic | Mastering CPG complexity: Siemens & Accenture's strategic solution