FORMULATION :
INNOVATE BETTER AND FASTER IN IAAS
Product development is a strategic challenge for the food industry. New consumer habits and increasingly strong expectations regarding origins, better eating, transparency, etc., but also a price war that is still very real: all these challenges must be met by your teams around what is known as "Innovation".
Innovating is first and foremost about collaboration!
All the company's departments are involved in product development. Of course, you may say! But in reality, who in our organisations holds the product information today? It is scattered all over the place. And if we look specifically at the development of new products, very often only the R&D department holds the recipe information.
In the development phase, everything stops for the other departments until the end of the industrial tests: the R&D department cannot formulate and carry out its tests and validations, while allocating resources to the formalisation and dissemination of information.
And once the product has been defined, he also finds himself managing all the requests from other departments on this subject: the sales department, which needs detailed product sheets, the laboratory, which needs to build its control plan and understand the analysis results, and marketing, which wants to work on the next communication campaign for the new range.
A bottleneck is so easily created when information is not shared.A PLM platform for managing product information and development cycles remains the essential tool for decompartmentalising the activity of the R&D department and ensuring that all departments participate and progress together.
Innovate differently...
Innovating faster frees up time... to innovate differently! How many of last year's product developments were innovations? How many are variations or optimisations of existing products? Disruptive innovation is rare and yet crucial for the sustainability of our industry in the face of changes and expectations in society.
Streamlining development processes and accelerating the famous Time-To-Market of adaptations and optimisations is a necessity. Optimising internal processes and implementing a PLM are the two key actions to achieve this objective.
The first enables the responsibilities and dependencies between each department involved in the development process to be clearly identified for the entire product axis. The second enables all product information (my inputs, my formulas, my finished products) to be structured in a single collaborative and secure database, and to automate the processes and steps required to build, make reliable and share these repositories.
This PLIM platform keeps a history of recipes, of the different versions of a product throughout its life cycle, of stopped products or abandoned projects. It constitutes the memory of the company's know-how. It is a precious ally in speeding up renovation projects or range changes. By taking concrete action on what currently occupies 80% of the teams, we free up their time for real breakthrough projects. This is where your teams will make full use of their skills and know-how, and will find a new source of motivation!
Vanessa Chheub
AgroData Consultant at Keendoo
"After several years in the Quality and Product Development departments of production plants and then in the retail sector, I now support these industry players. production plants and then in mass distribution, I now support these players in the food industry in the implementation of software solutions adapted to their needs. in the implementation of software solutions adapted to their needs.
