Dassault Systemes, a vendor of product lifecycle management (PLM) applications, has crafted an initiative to bring new organizational efficiencies to consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Built on the company's industry-specific series of CPG Accelerators, the Collaborative Business Processes Initiative for CPG promotes global standardization and re-use of intellectual property throughout the supply chain. According to Dassault, the tool can help CPG companies to explore new markets and take advantage of emerging opportunities. They can standardize and streamline specification creation, ensure the validation of specification for optimized manufacturing, maximize the benefits of negotiated volume pricing on a global basis, and assure the promotion of repeatable best practices for specification request, design and approvals. Dassault's portfolio of PLM and 3D design products include CATIA for virtual product design, SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design, DELMIA for virtual production, SIMULIA for virtual testing and ENOVIA for collaborative lifecycle management.
