Food, Beverage and Personal Goods Firms Accelerate Business Performance Through PLM

ID Number: G00158079

23 May 2008

Marc Halpern Peter Bambridge Dale Hagemeyer

Consumer goods manufacturers and retailers are beginning to show strong interest in product life cycle management software and practices. They see benefits but also learn lessons as they adopt PLM.

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Table of Contents

sAnalysis

1.0		PLM Moves Beyond ERP
2.0		Some PLM Proof Points From Early Adopters
3.0		Defining PLM
4.0		Key PLM Challenges
5.0		Getting Started With PLM

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	Table 1.	Gartner's Top Vendor Choices for PLM in Consumer Goods Industries

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	Figure 1.	Top Managerial Challenges in Deploying PLM

	Figure 2.	Key Technical Challenges in Deploying PLM

	Figure 3.	Factors and Conditions That Contributed Most to PLM Deployment

	Figure 4.	Stakeholder Involvement in PLM

	Figure 5.	Adoption Status for PLM Applications

Product Life Cycle Management
Consumer Goods Business Strategies

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