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.

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.

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Product Data Management for Consumer Packaged Goods

With today’s packaged consumer goods industry more cost-competitive than ever, manufacturers must increase efficiency wherever possible. A lifecycle approach to process and data management is critical for this. Our solution centralizes technical information and keeps it up-to-date and accessible. This creates efficiency gains that will improve how you manage change, execute work processes, drive quality, and connect to external suppliers and customers.

IoT and Lifecycle Analytics

Advanced analyses that cover the entire product lifecycle are essential to giving brand manufacturers visibility and real-time visibility and control of their production processes. Our solutions combine data available from the Internet of Things (IoT) with analyses performed during the product life cycle, give consumer products companies the necessary agility in their production processes to meet demands for customized products, energy management, sustainability, and traceability.

Requirements Management for Consumer Products

A successful consumer product arises from a careful analysis of market trends and customer demands. Designers must consider factors such as market regulations, costs, the results of similar products, and the requirements for an efficient and cost-effective production process. It can become quite challenging to manage all of these requirements. Our requirements management solution integrates consumer and customer needs throughout the product lifecycle, on a secure and global platform. It enables efficient capture, management, and communication of requirements to everyone involved in development.

Product Cost Management for Consumer Products

Achieving target cost is especially important in the consumer goods industry due to fierce competition and tight margins. Our integrated product cost management solution allows customers to identify the best price of a product early in the development process, which could make the difference between success and failure.

Engineering Data Management for Home & Office Goods

Performance footwear is becoming increasingly complex with personalization and embedded technologies.  Performance footwear and sports uniforms are now connected and instruments that measure athlete performance. Companies have to design and validate the performance and safety; while communicating specifications to a supply chain that is more than 10,000 miles away. Our engineering data management solution enables a company to manage all the data for multi-disciplinary design across the full engineering lifecycle including with all partners across the supply chain.

Engineering Data Management for Sporting Goods & Toys

The multi-disciplinary approach to product lifecycle management offered by Siemens PLM Software improves performance and scalability. With intelligent management, sharing, and synchronization of holistic engineering data across domains and functions, food and beverage companies gain a highly efficient and strategic approach to facility design, manufacturing processes, and management of lines and equipment.

Product Design for Beauty, Personal & Home Care

Product design in the Beauty, Personal and Home Care industry now requires a blend of aesthetics and complex functionality to delight consumers and capture their buying dollars. Our solution allows mechanical design to be integrated with electrical and software design, enabling a seamless finished product design – a complete digital twin of these complex products. Take advantage of our solution to design more innovative products faster and more efficiently.

Product Design for Home & Office Goods

Deliver better innovation with higher quality and lower cost with comprehensive 3D product design tools. Home and Office Goods are getting increasing complex to design but must be intuitive to use. Our integrated and intuitive suite of best in class design capabilities can enable your design team to create the right product, on time, the first time.

Product Design for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories

The pace of change in fashion and performance footwear is like no other industry. We have lost the rhythm of seasons as companies launch new fashion weekly. With consumers demanding personalization and most manufacturing done in Asia, the complexity of managing lines, launches and the supply chain is rising exponentially. Our integrated design and manufacturing solution is helping customers find the agility and speed to win in the world of fast fashion.

Package Design for Consumer Goods

Today’s designers of consumer goods packaging face new challenges such as ensuring transparency into environmental compliance, keeping up with faster product cycles, and countering new levels of mechanical stress caused by online commerce and direct shipments to consumers. We offer a fully integrated suite of tools that enables rapid package development, from initial concept to detail package, including full associativity between product and production equipment as well as advanced design and simulation capabilities.

Artwork Development for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories

Footwear and apparel companies are competing in the Fast Fashion world and required to launch products in days. Agility in artwork is a necessity. Re-use of assets enables agility. Artwork built on a product lifecycle management foundation provides the confidence of data accuracy, asset re-use and the ability to quickly create configurations and even personalized labels or monograms on the fly. Artwork in the footwear, apparel and accessories market is as important to the product design as it is to the package and label. Agility in artwork is critical in the last mile of delivering personalized product designs in days.

Supply Chain Collaboration for Consumer Products

As suppliers take on more responsibility in the creation of your products, a “one size fits all” approach to supplier integration is no longer viable. You must be able to digitally interact with all suppliers, even those who are geographically dispersed and outside your PLM environment.

Our tools and solutions provide a comprehensive approach to managing supplier interactions. They support multiple use cases such as design data exchange, direct materials sourcing and supplier program management.

Manufacturing Process Planning for Consumer Products

Changing market demands are forcing the consumer goods industry to produce more efficiently. Companies must optimize the use of their plants and adapt quickly to production lots that are becoming smaller and smaller. These challenges are complicated by high-quality standards and increasing regulations. With our solutions, we offer a broad range of tools to streamline your process planning workflows, automate non-value-added planning tasks, and validate the best plan for making products.

Manufacturing Planning for Consumer Products

Changing market demands are forcing the Consumer Packaged Goods industry to produce more efficiently. Companies must optimize the use of their plants and adapt quickly to production lots that are becoming smaller and smaller. These challenges are complicated by high quality standards and increasing regulations. With our solutions we offer a broad range of tools to streamline your process planning workflows, automate non-value-added planning tasks, and validate the best plan for making products.

Manufacturing Data Management for Food & Beverage

Every time you develop a new food product or beauty cream you face the challenges of a market that increasingly demands new, personalized and affordable products. These challenges require that you evaluate the production process early in the product development phase.

Our solution for manufacturing process and data management enables customers to collaboratively create, validate and optimize manufacturing plants concurrently with product design.

Factory Layout, Line Design & Optimization for Beauty, Personal Care, & Home Care

The Consumer Package Goods industry is experiencing reduced margins along with the need to rapidly introduce new products. Designing the factory layout to produce a variety of products is essential to efficiency. Our completely integrated factory layout, line design & optimization solution enables you to maximize productivity, increase profitability and determine the best way to realize your products.

Factory Layout, Line Design & Optimization for Home & Office Goods

Consumer products industry, such as furniture, sporting goods, shoes, clothes, and objects for home and office, is experiencing reduced margins along with the need to rapidly introduce new products. Designing the factory layout to produce a variety of products  is essential to efficiency. Our completely integrated factory layout, line design optimization solution enables you to maximize productivity, increase profitability and determine the best way to realize your products.

Automation Engineering & Commissioning for Food & Beverage

Consumer products are produced by systems that are increasingly sophisticated and complex, and consequently, difficult to develop and modify. Automation Engineering and Virtual Commissioning allow manufacturers to start-up and fine-tune production processes on virtual models, saving time and cost, reducing the risk of production downtime and potential work-related accidents.

Production Planning & Scheduling for Consumer Products

Advanced planning and scheduling in real-time are essential in the Consumer Products industry, where consumer's preferences change rapidly and margins are always under pressure. Our planning and scheduling solution, allows you to create an efficient and responsive factory that delivers quality products and market success.

Closed-Loop Quality

Manufacturers of home and office products as well as sporting goods and toys face pressures from new trends such as increased product complexity, the trend toward customization, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Our integrated quality management solution is uniquely effective across the entire value chain in its ability to improve quality and reduce costs by optimizing all fabrication steps, and recognizing and acting in time to prevent potential material or process problems.

Manufacturing Execution Management for Consumer Products

As the Consumer Goods industry responds to new market demands, the adoption of an efficient Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that is vertically and horizontally integrated into the company structure is crucial. Our system is a sophisticated, highly scalable MES that delivers multiple capabilities and allows you to balance production efficiency with quality and visibility. It will enable you to optimize production, ultimately resulting in higher manufacturing responsiveness.

Technical Publishing for Consumer Products

Publications provided with products must be correct and must comply with regulations. They also need to be personalized to geographic regions or customers. Our solution suite keeps technical publications up-to-date with product changes and allows direct usage of engineering source data. Our integrated document management and publishing solutions synchronize your document development and management processes with product data in your PLM environment.

Food Safety

Health-conscious consumers are changing the way they think about their food. Not only do they want high-quality ingredients. They also want assurance that the entire production process is safe and compliant with regulations. Not meeting these demands can harm brand values. Our solutions provide a holistic view into product and production information, including the full supply chain, and specifically address compliance management and the handling of complex change procedures.

Package Design for Food & Beverage

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.

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.

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.

Formulated Product Design for Cosmetics, Personal & Home Care

Customers demand innovative products that are healthy, environmentally friendly, and low-priced. This puts tremendous pressure on cosmetics formulation development and home 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 the full integration of R&D and manufacturing, our Cosmetics product formulation solution will streamline and optimize R&D related processes, for an unrivaled competitive advantage.

Artwork Development for Beauty, Personal & Home Care

Artwork is the main communication of brand equity and the critical information needed to inspire a purchase. It must be right, compliant and communicate the claims and benefits of the product. Artwork build on the foundation of a PLM will increase agility and quality, reduce the risk of recall, and improve the designer’s ability to focus on creative aspects that drive purchase and loyalty.

Digital Mockup, Virtual & Augmented Reality for Consumer Products

In the past, verifying product and packaging functionality before placing a product on the market required a long and expensive process that involved the creation of one or more physical mock-ups. This process is becoming increasingly less possible in a consumer market that requires personalization, innovation and speed. Our digital mockup and design review solutions enable teams across the supply chain to assemble, visualize, and analyze models and detect issues early, before manufacturing.

Product Data Management for Consumer Products

With today’s Consumer Goods industry more cost-competitive than ever, manufacturers must increase efficiency wherever possible. A lifecycle approach to process and data management is critical for this. Our solution centralizes technical information and keeps it up-to-date and accessible. This creates efficiency gains that will improve how you manage change, execute work processes, drive quality, and connect to external suppliers and customers.

Product Data Management for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories

In the fashion industry, manufacturing is often done by suppliers, located far from where the products are designed. A lifecycle approach to process and data management is critical for making this practice function effectively.

Our solution centralizes technical information and keeps it up-to-date and accessible. It creates efficiency gains that will improve how you manage change, execute work processes, drive quality, and connect to external suppliers and manufacturing process definitions and execution.

Integrated Manufacturing Operations

Integrated Manufacturing Operations provides a seamless information flow that starts with vertical integration, connects the business with manufacturing, and then distributes proper information to all involved departments.

Performance Engineering for Sporting Goods & Toys

Take the lead, deliver unparallel performance and advance the future of sporting goods and toys using our holistic simulation and test offering

Smart product and process design for consumer goods

Delivering exceptional customer experiences requires consumer product manufacturers to develop new behaviorally responsive products that meet sustainability standards while improving the consumers' lives. Implementing a plan based on a digital thread validation strategy can help manufacturers overcome some of their most significant challenges. Smart product design and process design leverage simulation and concurrent production to ensure manufacturability at the required speed, quality, and cost as an integrated total product solution.

Process design & validation for consumer goods

Process design and validation are unified solutions that enable consumer goods manufacturers to define and virtually validate production processes to anticipate any potential issues.

Performance engineering for consumer goods

The consumer goods market, including home appliance and tools industries, is at the dawn of delivering product upgrades that cater to the future of connected smart homes while meeting performance and regulatory requirements.  Companies specializing in household appliances rely on our advanced simulation and testing solutions to develop innovative, cost-effective carbon-abated products. Performance engineering combines test, simulation, and mechatronic system validation solutions, bringing the digital twin concept - best-in-class modeling, best-in-class testing, or the combination thereof–which is a crucial enabler to designing right the first time.

Product design & validation for consumer goods

Product design and validation introduce innovative digital thread technologies into the design process enabling seamless product design, package and artwork creation, analysis, and virtual validation.

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