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Convert CPG Challenges into Opportunities with Technology

Microsoft Dynamics helps enable consumer packaged goods manufacturers to meet and exceed the demands of retailers and consumers by utilizing real-time operations and supply chain information to make rapid and accurate decisions.

Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturers face a lot of pressures in today’s marketplace: fickle consumers, powerful retailers, and globalization to name a few. And while the CPG manufacturing industry is large and thriving margins are slim and competition is furious. There are hundreds of product categories, and to compete, firms must constantly innovate. Even industry giants cannot afford to sit back. Therefore the small-to-medium CPG manufacturer must make investments in innovative systems in order to survive in the face of these external pressures and fewer resources.

Microsoft Dynamics is the investment that will deliver lean manufacturing; opening the visibility to suppliers to help your employees speed the time from concept to shelf, remove waste from operations, and meet the new demands from large retailers by aiding in the following areas:

Create Innovative Products
- Discover trends in sales, marketing, and forecast data to react more quickly to fickle consumer desires
- Integrate a collaborative product development environment with manufacturing and procurement systems to speed time to market on new and/or improved products
- Support customization and brand labeling of your products to assist in differentiation in a crowded market
- Facilitate global collaboration to quickly engineer, source, and manufacture new products through readily available and familiar desktop tools
Improve Operations and Reduce Costs
- Enable informed decisions using data from suppliers and customers in real-time, actionable workflow notifications delivered through familiar desktop applications
- Measure and delivering industry and customer specific KPIs to all with easy-to-use and familiar software
- Reduce training time and create happy, satisfied users by allowing them to accomplish their business activities using familiar desktop tools
- Integrate multiple facilities and departments by delivering a single, real-time view into all customer information and manufacturing, sales, procurement, and financial activity using familiar applications that are readily available globally
- Integrate bar code and RFID systems with internal and customer systems to meet the requirements of larger retailers while lowering the cost of manufacturing and distribution
- Utilize supply chain and plant manufacturing visibility to make optimal use of manufacturing capacity, procured materials, finished product inventories, and market demand
- Start new operations and/or processes quickly with fast implementation of ERP and the rest of their technology solutions
- Deliver reports on manufacturing operations to understand where savings can be found and how customers can be served most effectively
- Simplify delivery of complex capabilities in easy-to-use and well-known desktop software tools
Develop Profitable Customer Relationships
- Improve customer support and deepening customer relationships by effectively tracking and monitoring customer needs and requests
- Extend CPG companies’ supply chain with RFID, and interoperate with existing systems and extend them to trading partners
- Collaborate more closely with their supply and demand chains on product development, demand planning, promotions, and logistics requirements
- Improve customer satisfaction through effective after sales service and support, including unique mobility solutions and RFID
- Cut costs in manufacturing, engineering, procurement, distribution, and sales to ultimately yield improved customer satisfaction and operating margins
Build Connections to Suppliers and Vendors
- Connect retailer demand requirements directly to manufacturing, suppliers, and distribution operations

The pressure is on every CPG manufacturer worldwide, small to large. Proactively and strategically address these pressures to maintain or grow share with an investment in systems, Microsoft Dynamics. Call Systematica today to determine your competitive edge and the benefits of the Microsoft Dynamics capabilities.