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You put a lot of time and energy into developing your products. From the product brief to the packaging design, from formulation to regulatory compliance, from internal and external collaboration to document management—you’re managing a lot of moving parts. And you’re doing it all while competing with other long-reigning brands and new niche luxury companies.

This is where product lifecycle management (PLM) comes in.

Robust PLM software is designed to streamline this process and help guide you through every phase of product development.

Let’s take a look at what you can do with a PLM system in your corner.

Feeling the pressure to deliver more new products with a shorter time to market? All while streamlining your operations?
With changes in consumer tastes and growing pressure to provide supply chain visibility, managing your product portfolio efficiently while driving innovation can be an uphill struggle. And it’s only more challenging if you’re battling information silos, manual processes, disparate systems or legacy software.
Here are 6 reasons why you can’t afford to pass up PLM any longer.

Project management is a fundamental issue for today’s businesses. It is increasingly common to hear “we want to work in project mode”, implying a willingness to plan, communicate and collaborate as best we can on projects.

As we discussed previously, global product management and development should not drag your international strategy. While we identify regulatory compliance management as the biggest business challenge for a CPG organization developing products for international markets, multilingual product data management is a fundamental technological asset. Although providing a global interface is crucial to facilitate the acceptance of the solution amongst international teams, it is not enough.

The project management triangle, or Cost, Time, Scope triptych, is a basic, in both fundamental and simplistic meanings, concept of project management. It aims at illustrating the interdependence and influence of those three key factors on the success of the project. However, it remains an interesting macro-concept that will help you shape your PLM project and its priorities.

Every organization nurtures their own ambitions and every one should seek the solution answering their needs. Run away from “one-size-fits-all” solutions and “one-method-fits-all” project management practices. As most of your PLM solution’s success dwells in the proper execution of its implementation.

The amount of data created by new consumption habits like online purchase and social networking became an important source of information for companies, especially for consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) industries. Companies in these industries needed solutions to store, process, and analyze these data which induced the software industry to thrive.

In this second part, we answer the following: What is PLM software’s most important concept to grasp? Hardest concept to grasp? What is PLM software’s greatest limitation? What is PLM software’s maintenance need?

In this blog post, we unveil the deeper considerations and interrogations that the vast question “What is PLM software” actually covers. This is the first of the two parts, at the end of which we hope you have a good understanding of what is PLM software.