Achieving proficiency to market with MatrixOne solutions The bottom line in the Consumer Products industry is that companies need to deliver the right high quality products to market, at the right time and at the right price while maintaining profit margins. Consumer product leaders such as Merloni Elettrodomestici, Procter & Gamble and Trek are using MatrixOne solutions to: Develop new products Extend existing products Bringing on new organizations to expand a product portfolio Introduce products into new markets But how have Consumer Product companies accomplished this in today's demanding, highly competitive global marketplace when they have limited process visibility, information in multiple systems, and few work processes that span the enterprise? To be proficient to market, Consumer Product companies must implement proven work processes and information technology (IT) to: Feed the pipeline with new ideas Keep up with constantly changing consumer preferences Define new concepts efficiently Design, develop and test new products quickly Design packaging with high consumer appeal Determine product and manufacturing processes and costs Eliminate ideas that are not going to meet market need or cost market position Source direct materials and manage suppliers Move products that have a high probability of success into volume production Ready distribution, support and marketing for volume sales

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And all of this must be accomplished while complying with country, state, and local regulations.

Delivering progress with MatrixOne

From bikes to appliances, the most successful products depend on a high level of collaboration among suppliers, partners, employees, and customers. Leaders across these industries count on MatrixOne to make substantial progress - in terms of both process improvement and product quality.

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"Our selection of MatrixOne's Matrix10 environment was a strategic decision for our company. We knew that we needed an environment with the overall flexibility and scalability needed to support our global business model. Because our implementation of Matrix10 was so efficient, we have been able to collaborate with our external design and manufacturing partners much earlier than we had previously hoped. As a result, we are anticipating an even more powerful return on our investment than we had originally planned for." Glen Waisner, President of The Hayes Company. Download The Hayes Company Customer Success Story (pdf) »

White Paper:

• Product Development in Consumer Industries Benchmark »
  MatrixOne is a key sponsor of this report by Aberdeen Group that identifies the leading priorities, challenges, and prospective product development strategies and technologies employed by consumer product companies. Trends and recommendations detailed in this report are based on Aberdeen Group's examination of product management strategies at 215 consumer companies, and are intended to aid other enterprises in building a business case for action to enhance their own product development initiatives.

• How Pigs Fly: New software tools help organize production and control costs
  - 2004 Nov: FORTUNE
  
• Incorporating technology into overall business practices, Glen Waisner, president of The Hayes Company - 2004 May: Manufacturer (pdf)
• Procter & Gamble Awarded Enterprise Value Award by CIO Magazine for Work With MatrixOne on Innovative Product Lifecycle Management Application
• Dan Blair of Procter & Gamble, on How PLM Saves Money - 2004 Feb 1, CIO Insight (pdf)
• Procter & Gamble Awarded Enterprise Value Award by CIO Magazine for Work With MatrixOne on Innovative Product Lifecycle Management Application
• The Hayes Company Selects Matrix10 to Eliminate the Barriers of Global Product Development
• New Balance Runs with MatrixOne Solutions

Case Studies:

• Merloni Elettrodomestici
  In just three months, MatrixOne delivered a marketing and product lifecycle management solution that enables Merloni Elettrodomestici to coordinate collaboration across subsidiaries, manufacturing sites, and suppliers while providing an online catalog to customers.

• The Hayes Company
  With more than 600 new products produced each year, The Hayes Company needed to more efficiently innovate and manage the development process of its seasonally-driven products in order to meet consumer demand at the retail level.

• Procter & Gamble
  P&G recognized the need to create a specification management system that would give the company state-of-the-art product and material specification capabilities and the linkage system required by employees and partners.

• Trek Bike
  Trek Bike uses the MatrixOne solution to control product development processes and to manage its product line.