In an increasingly competitive agri-food market, French SMEs and mid-market companies must innovate quickly, secure their product data, and reduce costs to stay competitive. Discover how Quick Start PLM, the new turnkey solution from Keendoo, the French leader in agri-food PLM, addresses these challenges with simplicity, speed, and controlled pricing.
The French agri-food sector faces major challenges: price pressure imposed by large retailers, rising raw material and energy costs, and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. In this context, agri-food companies must innovate more quickly while ensuring impeccable quality and preserving their image to remain competitive.
With over 10 years of experience and having supported 50 industrial clients, Keendoo is launching Quick Start PLM, a solution specifically designed for SMEs and mid-market companies in the agri-food industry. A simple, immediately available and accessible offering that centralizes product data, accelerates innovation processes, and ensures regulatory compliance without the usual complexities of a software deployment project.
An agri-food market under pressure: what challenges for SMEs and mid-cap companies?
The agri-food market is characterized by fierce competition and increasingly tight margins. It is difficult to gain a foothold in the face of powerful multinationals, while large retailers are imposing ever more difficult commercial negotiations. In this context, SMEs and mid-cap companies must differentiate themselves through innovation, quality, and responsiveness, while keeping costs under control.
In this demanding environment, optimizing product data management and accelerating innovation is becoming a strategic lever for SMEs and mid-market companies.
Quick Start PLM: tangible benefits for your business
Save time and avoid costly mistakes
How does Quick Start PLM simplify your product data management? In small and medium-sized food companies, employees waste valuable time searching for , re-entering, and validating data scattered across different departments (Marketing, R&D, Quality, Purchasing, etc.). Quick Start PLM offers a centralized, collaborative solution that eliminates duplicates, multiple entries, and the risk of errors.
Key benefits:
- Single product repository: All data characterizing products (composition, packaging, allergens, nutritional values, labeling information, quality criteria, etc.) is centralized and accessible in real time.
- Seamless collaboration: Each department works on the same data source, with controlled access rights.
- Simplified updates: Centralizing data makes it easier to modify, reducing the risk of errors (allergens, regulatory declarations, etc.).
- Editing technical data sheets: Automatic document generation with each update ensures the reliability of product data sheets, labeling, and logistics, and eliminates the need for re-entry.
Result: Significant time savings and increased reliability of your product data.
Ensure compliance and reduce risk
Regulatory compliance is a critical issue for food processing companies. A labeling error, incomplete allergen declaration, or non-compliance can result in product recalls, fines (up to 10% of revenue), and a loss of consumer and distributor confidence. Quick Start PLM secures your processes and helps ensurethe accuracy of your product data throughout its lifecycle.
The advantages of Quick Start PLM Keendoo:
- Single source of truth: A single repository for all data, collaboratively validated before distribution.
- Change traceability: Versioning and change history, version comparison, essential for audits (certification labels, IFS, BRC, etc.).
- Integrated validation processes: Workflows to validate product data, labeling, and logistics data.
- Enhanced cybersecurity: Secure cloud hosting , granular access rights management, and regular audits to ensure optimal protection of your product data.
With Quick Start PLM, you eliminate the risk of non-compliance and secure your reputation.
Reduce time-to-market and innovate faster!
How can you accelerate your product launches without sacrificing quality? In a market where responsiveness is key, SMEs and mid-market companies need to launch their products faster than their competitors, while ensuring compliance and attractiveness. Quick Start PLM optimizes your product development processes to enable youto accelerate innovation.
Acceleration levers:
- Ready-to-use project management templates: For innovation, renovation, or minor modifications, with clear steps.
- Optimized collaboration: Automatic notifications and workflows to efficiently coordinate all teams (Marketing, R&D, Quality, Purchasing, Production).
- Accelerated launches: Reduction in time to market by 30 to 50%.
- Flexibility and adaptability: Rapid response to new consumer trends or distributor requests.
Quick Start PLM enables you to become even more responsive, able to seize market opportunities before your competitors.
Quick Start PLM: simplicity at the service of your performance
Quick start and affordable rates
Why choose a PLM solution that is quick and easy to implement? Many SMEs and mid-sized companies do not have the time or resources for complex, lengthy projects. Quick Start PLM allows for a fast start, with intuitive handling and controlled costs.
Quick Start PLM commitments:
- Immediate access: No long delays, no extensive training. A turnkey solution, ready to use.
- Transparent pricing: An all-inclusive offer (software, licenses, maintenance, support, secure cloud hosting), with no surprises.
- Budget tailored to SMEs/mid-cap companies: A controlled investment for a quick return on investment.
With Quick Start PLM, you get a powerful solution without the usual complexity of IT projects.
A solution designed by and for the agri-food industry
Why trust Keendoo, the agri-food PLM expert? Keendoo has been supporting French agri-food SMEs and mid-market companies for over 10 years, with in-depth knowledge of their challenges: product data management, regulatory compliance, change history and traceability, and cross-departmental collaboration.
Keendoo's strengths:
- Sector expertise: A solution specifically tailored to the needs of food processing companies.
- Proximity and support: Dedicated support and training for quick and easy familiarization.
- Continuous innovation: Developments to meet the needs of the agri-food sector.
Quick Start PLM is much more than just software: it is a strategic partner for your competitiveness.
Quick Start PLM, your ally for greater profitability
In such a demanding environment, Quick Start PLM is the ideal solution for small and medium-sized food companies that want to:
- Increase reliability with simplified, collaborative processes.
- Ensure the compliance of their products and guarantee the reliability of their data,
- Reduce their time-to-market and innovate faster,
- Control their costs with a turnkey solution and affordable pricing.
Discover how Quick Start PLM can transform your product management and boost your competitiveness.
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