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 PLM platform for managing product information and development cycles remains the essential tool for decompartmentalizing R&D department activities 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 time-to-market of product adaptations and optimizations is a necessity. Optimizing 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 stores the history of recipes, of the different versions of a product throughout its life cycle, of discontinued products or abandoned projects. It constitutes the company's know-how memory. It is an invaluable ally in speeding up renovation projects or range changes. By taking concrete action on what currently occupies 80% of teams' time, we free up their time for real breakthrough projects. And it's here that your teams will make the most of their skills and know-how, and find a new source of motivation!
Vanessa Chheub AgroData Consultant at Keendoo
"After working for several years in the Quality and Product Development departments of production plants, then in mass distribution, I'm now helping these players in the food industry to implement software solutions tailored to their needs."
For the past 10 years, we've been working with some fifty food manufacturers.
Our specialization enables us to be in tune with the needs of food companies, and to speak the same language. We know your business today and tomorrow.
