Decrease Cost and Complexity with Global, Intelligent Specifications Management

Accurate specifications management is a major driver of product quality, cost and, ultimately, brand equity for today’s consumer packaged goods, food and beverage manufacturers. Complex and important tasks like these are better realized by a product lifecycle management (PLM) platform than by a document management application.

Specifications are the descriptors of materials and processes, the collection of information that is required to produce, package and ship a product. A single product could have dozens of different specifications, from raw materials, recipes and formulas, to manufacturing processes, shipping and handling. In time, specification can proliferate exponentially across an organization, which increases costs and complexity.

Authored throughout the new product development process, the value of specifications is increased when they are intelligently and dynamically related to one another. Changes to specifications, which frequently occur in most organizations, are accurately and automatically populated across all related specifications in the organization, and across the globe, thanks to the intelligent, real-time relational nature of the Siemens PLM platform.

Standardization becomes possible through global visibility and dynamic relationship of all specs. As a result, the number of specifications can be reduced without compromising brand promise. Commonization and rationalization of the raw material portfolio helps you leverage the sourcing supply base, simplify logistics and mitigate organizational complexity.