About: Consumer Goods
Digital Solution Group ("DSG") services the Consumer Goods market (both brands and vertical retailers) to extend the value of Product Lifecycle Management ("PLM") by establishing digital fluidity between their PLM system and all upstream / downstream systems / services.
Consumer Goods companies have a unique profile from Consumer Products companies in that they not only require a level of 2D/3D Design for packaging and labeling, but they also require the ability to support formula/recipe management.
Gartner defines formula/recipe management as "the ability to optimize formulas, create and manage the workflows to make changes to formulations and recipes, create and configure formulation variants, manage labeling content, plan inventory for scale-up, and validate formulations to support production and regulatory needs."
However, since Consumer Goods companies also have hundreds or thousands of products (SKU - Stock Keeping Units) to offer to market, they too have need for a separate Assortment / Range Planning ("A/RP") system.
This is depicted in the image below, noting that the A/RP system is used to define the product line, and for some companies obtains input from Industry trends / Market Analysis, as well as Voice of the Customer services.
Consumer Goods companies have a unique profile from Consumer Products companies in that they not only require a level of 2D/3D Design for packaging and labeling, but they also require the ability to support formula/recipe management.
Gartner defines formula/recipe management as "the ability to optimize formulas, create and manage the workflows to make changes to formulations and recipes, create and configure formulation variants, manage labeling content, plan inventory for scale-up, and validate formulations to support production and regulatory needs."
However, since Consumer Goods companies also have hundreds or thousands of products (SKU - Stock Keeping Units) to offer to market, they too have need for a separate Assortment / Range Planning ("A/RP") system.
This is depicted in the image below, noting that the A/RP system is used to define the product line, and for some companies obtains input from Industry trends / Market Analysis, as well as Voice of the Customer services.
Output from a Consumer Goods PLM are:
Though not depicted above, because of its range of complexity, ERP should be intimated (intelligently integrated) with MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) that are used to control the recipe management of products, its work-cell level formulation / formation of recipe execution, and its placement in kanbanned containers / labeling. The inimation of PLM and ERP ensures that regulatory compliance / monitoring and real-time execution of approach change orders are executed.
It is also probable that Customer Review service information is fed directly back to PLM. PIM is usually the primary feed of Market Release (eCOM) while ERP is the primary receiver of In-store sales information.
In select instances there will be one or more independent Enterprise Database(s) ("DB"), as well as use of Internet of Things technology that connects a range of devices or systems that are necessary for production of end products.
There should always exist some for of a reporting / Dashboard facility that obtains data from all systems / databases to present a wholistic view of product information both at present and historical.
Less often will exist some form of Artificial Intelligent (AI) / Machine Learning facilities that will bring insights to the product line profile, production, logistics, or product design. Though new to the Consumer Goods market, this technology is fast-paced and advancing rapidly, leveraging the myriad of historic data that exists through the enterprise systems.
- Product imagery / attribute content to a Product Information Managment (PIM) system,
- Product / SKU level Recipe content to an Enterprise Planning System ("ERP"),
- Most often the ERP systems interfaces with Production / Delivery Logistics, though there may remain information that also comes from the E-PLM system.
Though not depicted above, because of its range of complexity, ERP should be intimated (intelligently integrated) with MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) that are used to control the recipe management of products, its work-cell level formulation / formation of recipe execution, and its placement in kanbanned containers / labeling. The inimation of PLM and ERP ensures that regulatory compliance / monitoring and real-time execution of approach change orders are executed.
It is also probable that Customer Review service information is fed directly back to PLM. PIM is usually the primary feed of Market Release (eCOM) while ERP is the primary receiver of In-store sales information.
In select instances there will be one or more independent Enterprise Database(s) ("DB"), as well as use of Internet of Things technology that connects a range of devices or systems that are necessary for production of end products.
There should always exist some for of a reporting / Dashboard facility that obtains data from all systems / databases to present a wholistic view of product information both at present and historical.
Less often will exist some form of Artificial Intelligent (AI) / Machine Learning facilities that will bring insights to the product line profile, production, logistics, or product design. Though new to the Consumer Goods market, this technology is fast-paced and advancing rapidly, leveraging the myriad of historic data that exists through the enterprise systems.
The term SolutionScape is used because each brand / vertical retailer will most likely have a different mix of these systems and therefore there is not a specific set (or term) that addresses all of these variable systems / services sets.
It is also not likely that any of these brands / vertical retailers have their specific set of systems / services intelligently integrated (or intimated) with PLM.
This is where DSG is poised to assist brands / vertical retailers to transition from silo systems / services to a SolutionScape that enables digital fluidity throughout.
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It is also not likely that any of these brands / vertical retailers have their specific set of systems / services intelligently integrated (or intimated) with PLM.
This is where DSG is poised to assist brands / vertical retailers to transition from silo systems / services to a SolutionScape that enables digital fluidity throughout.
Use the form below to get connected with Digital Solution Group. A comment (optiona) is suggested to focus our initial dialog.
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