Is PLM the "poor relation" of digital transformation? This panel recorded at the Tech for Industry Show proves otherwise, featuring Emily Lara Rosales (Global R&D PMO & PLM Director, Pernod Ricard), Laure (DD&AI Strategic Office R&D, Danone), Sarah Stocco (Principal PLM Solution Consultant, Infor) and Hélène (Senior CPG PLM Consultant), on new product development and introduction (NPDI) in consumer goods industries.
The discussion covers: why time to market is no longer the deciding criterion — replaced by right first time, license to operate and data as an AI accelerator; PLM as the "central nervous system" of product data (formulations, recipes, specifications, packaging), the parent of product data rather than the ERP's little brother; the triggers for scaling at Pernod Ricard (globalizing the R&D function, agility against tariffs and regulation, the ERP/master data transformation); Danone's feedback after 3 years — top-level sponsorship, engaging functions through integration points, and the story of project Cybèle, seated "at the table of Themis," the in-house ERP; and the human dimension: ambassadors, a co-located project team, reassuring R&D populations, and AI serving users (information retrieval, data extraction, simulating an ingredient change, process mining on NPDI).
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