Events Resources Contact Global | English Industries Products Your Success Our Story Support Buy Siemens Digital Industries Software › Industries › Consumer Products & Retail Consumer Products & Retail Digitalization for the Consumer Products and Retail Industry Consumer products companies must transform to handle dramatic shifts in the market. Globalization, increased regulatory demands, mobile commerce and changes in consumer behavior are driving consumer products companies to redefine speed-to-market and the required agility of supply chains. Companies can no longer manage complexity without a digital business imperative. Our best practices and software solutions advance the digitalization of consumer products across the enterprise value chain. You are at Overview Industry Segments Apparel, Footwear & Accessories Digitalization to transform the fashion industry and deliver personalization Explore Sporting Goods & Toys Integrated design, simulation and testing tools for the delivery of smart products Explore Home & Office Goods Integrated solutions to design and plan collections, configure products and maximize efficiency in Home & Office Goods industry. Explore Home Appliances & Tools Smart household devices designed to make life easier by performing various tasks Food & Beverage Solutions for food safety, compliance and manufacturing excellence Explore Beauty, Personal & Home Care Integrated solutions to optimize design, agility, traceability and program execution Explore Retail Our solutions are helping retailers prepare for the future by recognizing that delivering innovation requires a broad ecosystem of partners is the key to long-term success. Explore Digitalization helps Black Diamond earn buyer loyalty and climber trust Play Video Black Diamond engineers explain how they’ve merged the form and function of climbing gear to earn buyer loyalty and the trust of the world’s greatest climbers—like Tommy Caldwell, who made the toughest free climb in history when he scaled Yosemite’s Dawn Wall. Our solutions helped unify industrial design and engineering for gear that’s beautiful enough to attract buyers, light enough to carry…and strong enough save lives. Featured Solutions Integrated Program & Lifecycle Management (IP&LM) for Consumer Products Where portfolio and product lifecycle management (PLM) meet Providing a complete story of a product’s lifecycle, while merging conventional capabilities using product and production lifecycle management information from a single source. Integrated Program & Lifecycle Management enables companies to gain full process transparency, share detailed data to stakeholders for reliable decision making and facilitate the reuse of the intellectual property. This combination enables intuitive participation, easily controlled and monitored for the next step in managing your product portfolio and business processes, watch this short video. Read More Formulated Product Design for Food & Beverage Customers demand innovative products that are healthy, environmentally friendly, and low-priced. This puts tremendous pressure on food product design. Reducing time-to-market and improving flexibility and efficiency requires sophisticated formula design, simulation, and management capabilities, including management of detailed material characteristics, efficient candidate selection mechanisms, and parameterization of quality testing. Combined with a full integration of R&D and manufacturing, our food and beverage management software will streamline and optimize R&D related processes, for an unrivaled competitive advantage. Read More Laboratory Management Consumer interest in the quality of products has increased drastically, including how a product might affect consumer health, the demand for high quality ingredients, the quality production processes and sustainability. Government and non-government organizations are responding with new regulations. The digitalization of laboratory processes will ensure the verification and quality of product and production and will provide companies the ability to accelerate new product introduction in a way that wins the hearts of the new discerning millennial consumer. Read More Artwork Development Artwork is the main communication of brand equity and the critical information needed to inspire purchase. It must be right, compliant and communicate the claims and benefits of the product. Artwork build on the foundation of a PLM will increase agility and quality, reduce the risk of recall, and improve the designer’s ability to focus on creative aspects that drive purchase and loyalty. Read More Package Design Packaging is a brand’s best marketing vehicle, but it also has to perform under daily use. Designers must deal with environmental compliance, faster product cycles due to social media, and new levels of mechanical stress with online commerce on the rise. Our suite of package design and visualization capabilities enables designers to create consumer-preferred packages with structural integrity and the assurance of efficient and effective manufacture worldwide. Read More Featured Customer Success Hong Chiang Technology Restaurant equipment manufacturer develops cutting-edge food delivery system with Solid Edge Hong Chiang Technology uses Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions to reduce modeling time by one-third Read More See all Success Stories All Consumer Products & Retail Solutions Explore and search for solutions in this industry. Displaying 10 of 32 solutions. Show all 1 2 3 4 Product Data Management for Consumer Packaged Goods With today’s packaged consumer goods industry more cost-competitive than ever, manufacturers must increase efficiency wherever possible. A lifecycle approach to process and data management is critical for this. Our solution centralizes technical information and keeps it up-to-date and accessible. This creates efficiency gains that will improve how you manage change, execute work processes, drive quality, and connect to external suppliers and customers. IoT and Lifecycle Analytics Advanced analyses that cover the entire product lifecycle are essential to giving brand manufacturers visibility and real-time visibility and control of their production processes. Our solutions combine data available from the Internet of Things (IoT) with analyses performed during the product life cycle, give consumer products companies the necessary agility in their production processes to meet demands for customized products, energy management, sustainability, and traceability. Requirements Management A successful consumer product arises from a careful analysis of market trends and customer demands. Designers must consider factors such as market regulations, costs, the results of similar products, and the requirements for an efficient and cost-effective production process. It can become quite challenging to manage all of these requirements. Our requirements management solution integrates consumer and customer needs throughout the product lifecycle, on a secure and global platform. It enables efficient capture, management, and communication of requirements to everyone involved in development. Product Cost Management Achieving target cost is especially important in the consumer goods industry due to fierce competition and tight margins. Our integrated product cost management solution allows customers to identify the best price of a product early in the development process, which could make the difference between success and failure. Engineering Data Management Performance footwear is becoming increasingly complex with personalization and embedded technologies. Performance footwear and sports uniforms are now connected and instruments that measure athlete performance. Companies have to design and validate the performance and safety; while communicating specifications to a supply chain that is more than 10,000 miles away. Our engineering data management solution enables a company to manage all the data for multi-disciplinary design across the full engineering lifecycle including with all partners across the supply chain. Engineering Data Management The multi-disciplinary approach to product lifecycle management offered by Siemens PLM Software improves performance and scalability. With intelligent management, sharing, and synchronization of holistic engineering data across domains and functions, food and beverage companies gain a highly efficient and strategic approach to facility design, manufacturing processes, and management of lines and equipment. Product Design for Beauty, Personal & Home Care Product design in the Beauty, Personal and Home Care industry now requires a blend of aesthetics and complex functionality to delight consumers and capture their buying dollars. Our solution allows mechanical design to be integrated with electrical and software design, enabling a seamless finished product design – a complete digital twin of these complex products. Take advantage of our solution to design more innovative products faster and more efficiently. Product Design for Home & Office Goods Deliver better innovation with higher quality and lower cost with comprehensive 3D product design tools. Home and Office Goods are getting increasing complex to design but must be intuitive to use. Our integrated and intuitive suite of best in class design capabilities can enable your design team to create the right product, on time, the first time. Product Design for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories The pace of change in fashion and performance footwear is like no other industry. We have lost the rhythm of seasons as companies launch new fashion weekly. With consumers demanding personalization and most manufacturing done in Asia, the complexity of managing lines, launches and the supply chain is rising exponentially. Our integrated design and manufacturing solution is helping customers find the agility and speed to win in the world of fast fashion. Package Design for Consumer Goods Today’s designers of consumer goods packaging face new challenges such as ensuring transparency into environmental compliance, keeping up with faster product cycles, and countering new levels of mechanical stress caused by online commerce and direct shipments to consumers. We offer a fully integrated suite of tools that enables rapid package development, from initial concept to detail package, including full associativity between product and production equipment as well as advanced design and simulation capabilities. Displaying 10 of 32 solutions. Show all 1 2 3 4 You may also be interested in... 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