Consumer Goods Industry

Intense competition. Short design cycle. Are you bringing new products to the market that are most likely to be successful? Can you adopt new styles fast enough? Have you scouted for best suppliers and manufacturers to achieve your quality goals? Dassault Systèmes (DS) can help you accelerate market-driven innovations through integrated Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.

Accelerating Market-Driven Innovations

Customer is King in the Consumer Goods industry. In this globally competitive industry, the traditional push view that saw product innovation in the lead and market-push in second place has been replaced by the pull view where demand determines the trend. With customers or consumers as the beginning and not the end of the supply-chain, companies must know what the market wants, able to rapidly change the products and business processes to adapt to the latest trend. Progressive consumer goods manufacturers are relying on Product Lifecycle Management solutions to address these tough challenges.

 

Thanks to its PLM Online for All platform, Dassault Systèmes delivers integrated solutions to accelerate the development of innovative products that have higher chances of market success. DS PLM solutions integrate business process management with cutting edge tools for design, engineering and production planning. Companies have higher chances of market success by effectively managing thrusts coming from the market that impact creative, planning and supply processes. Please click on the following links to learn more about our solutions:

Proven Solutions for Addressing Industry's Tough Challenges

The ability to predict market trends has always been vital to the success of a consumer good manufacturer but this alone is not enough. Companies must master complex relationships that exist between product innovation and quality assurance. DS PLM solutions help customers in their strategic initiatives around the transformation of product development, sourcing, manufacturing and enterprise collaboration processes.  

 

We have helped consumer goods companies in sectors ranging from apparel, footwear, furniture, home and garden appliances, toys and watches deliver the right products to the right market. Please browse the Dassault Systèmes Consumer Goods Press Releases, Customer Stories and Resource Center to find out how customers such as adidas, Gucci Group, Guess, Black & Decker, Husqvarna, Nordica, Citizen Watch and others have benefitted from DS PLM solutions for Fashion or other consumer goods segments. If you are in the consumer electronics segment, please visit our High-Tech / Electronics site.

Pat McCarville, President,,GID Development Corporation

Prior to our effective implementation of DS PLM, our margin per project was 9% to 12%. Today, GID achieves margin per project of 20 to 25%.

Pat McCarville, President,
GID Development Corporation