Ambitioning, planning or starting a PLM project can quickly become overwherlming. Should I go for a customized or standard solution? Can I trust my vendor? Will the board agree? So many questions pop ! As challenging as choosing the best PLM software for your company may seem, following logical and structured steps will make it a troublefree experience!
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Cloud and SaaS adoption has drastically increased in the span of just a few years. Today, PLM buyers are facing the same fears, questions and opportunities than they did with other technologies when considering a cloud or on-premise solution.
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Because Earth provides raw materials for various consumer products, companies look at sustainable product development as a mean to reduce the negative environmental impact of their products. To ensure sustainable product development in the design chain, selected suppliers must abide by sustainability policies.
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You are most likely familiar with the concept of product databases. However, this simple notion raises deeper interrogations. In this blog post, we explore basic product database considerations and business uses. Also discover how we help manufacturers manage their product specifications in order to build end-to-end product information traceability.
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Today, computers and software are more and more widespread. In the Food and Beverage industry, a good example is the use of more and more sophisticated nutrition labeling software. To have the right content for a label, food and beverage companies need to aggregate all the data required like allergens lists, claims, nutritional values of raw materials.
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Once the project has been properly set on track, it is important to stay alert to avoid it drifting away. There is considerable literature on project management and project management risks so we decided to focus on what we consider as the most critical when we specifically talk about PLM solution implementation projects. We hope you will keep these red flags in mind as they determine whether the implementation will lead to a sustainable end-user adoption or not.
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Let’s cover “pre-project” considerations that ensure you and your supplier collaborative head forward in the same direction. PLM solutions have such a wide functional scope and cross-departmental impact that consolidating as strong as possible initial expectations, requirements, responsibilities, milestones, and so on, is vital for the project success.
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With the digitalization of mostly everything, companies have followed by reviewing their information systems and beginning their digital transformation.
Since the early 2000s, cloud computing, or “remote data center”, has impacted organizations by bringing flexibility and reducing costs.
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From 2004 through 2013, undeclared allergens were a leading cause of food recalls, accounting for 27.4% of all recall events. Globally, barely 10% of food and beverage products are traced, verified and certified (what are steps of transformation? who are the players? How to inform consumers?).
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Premium product segments outpacing total category sales in CPG markets shows that consumers’ aspirations and priorities are shifting. And at a time when brand strategy is inseparable from product information, providing transparency to consumers is the minimum thing to do to gain their trust and loyalty.
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