The Consumer Products Industry
Consumer products manufacturers need to remain competitive in an industry where customer demand is constantly changing, technology is advancing at a rapid pace and product life cycles are shorter than ever. For these dynamic business conditions, QAD Enterprise Applications are clear, flexible and tailored to your business needs.
In addition to traditional pressures for top line growth and bottom line profitability, today’s consumer manufacturers face new quality, sustainability and compliance challenges brought in part by the recent wave of product recalls and issues with direct and by-product exported materials. These companies face the reality of either enhancing product quality and embracing global compliance standards or going out of business.
QAD Enterprise Applications enable leading consumer products companies to support key sustainability initiatives, meet stringent compliance requirements, extend quality to key off shore suppliers and effectively collaborate across the supply chain. QAD solutions are designed to help consumer products companies meet the requirements of global regulators, shareholders, customers and end-consumers.
Key Issues in the Consumer Products Industry
QAD prides itself on intimately knowing its customers’ business challenges and opportunities and has developed deep vertical expertise in the consumer products industry.
Building consumer confidence in product safety and quality: Heightened global consumer concerns about the quality of products and ingredients being produced in China and other Asian countries are impacting manufactures’ ability to sell into these markers.
Meeting the requirements of global compliance: September 11th changed the rules for global commerce. Across the supply chain numerous compliance reporting requirements exist such as food and drug compliance reporting, transportation documentation and managing electrical waste products.
Supporting global sustainability initiatives: Global retailers such as Metro and Wal-Mart are mandating that manufacturers implement sustainability “Greening of the Globe” programs that take emissions out of the environment, save on natural resources and improve utilization of materials. QAD Enterprise Applications can help consumer products manufacturers reduce packaging size, run trucks at full loads and run machines more effectively to comply with these standards.
