Client Successs Stories
The Digital Thread for a Beverage Industry
Exploring the indispensable role of Aras Innovator as a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution in transforming the beverage industry—from initial concept development and formulation to packaging, compliance, production, and delivery—ensuring faster time-to-market, improved product quality, and enhanced collaboration across the value chain.
Faster Innovation
Streamlined Compliance
Centralized Collaboration
The Industry's Core Challenges
Beverage companies navigate a complex landscape of operational hurdles. Aras PLM provides a strategic response to these interconnected issues.
Recipe & Formulation Complexity
Precision in ingredient ratios, nutritional data, and processing parameters is paramount for taste, safety, and consistency.
Complex Packaging & BOMs
Packaging involves material science, structural integrity, and complex label compliance, creating intricate Bills of Materials.
Stringent Quality Control
Maintaining consistent taste, color, texture, and shelf life requires rigorous quality checks at every stage.
Global Regulatory Compliance
Navigating diverse regulations across markets (FDA, EFSA, etc.) for labeling and ingredients is a massive undertaking.
Rapid Innovation Cycles
Consumer tastes change rapidly, demanding frequent new product introductions and responses to trends.
Supply Chain Traceability
The ability to trace ingredients from source to consumer is critical for recall management and consumer trust.
The Solutions build on Aras PLM
Aras PLM provides a unified platform to tackle industry challenges. Explore how Aras Innovator PLM works from both a business and technical perspective by selecting a tab, then clicking on an item to see its details.
Recipe & Formulation Management
Streamline the creation and management of beverage recipes and formulations. Ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across product lines.
The Need
Inconsistent recipes and manual updates lead to errors, quality deviations, and scalability issues.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Provides a single source of truth for all recipe data, ensuring consistency, enabling precise version control, and facilitating global replication.
Packaging & BOM Management
Efficiently manage packaging components and their relationships with products. Ensure accurate, up-to-date Bills of Materials across the entire product lifecycle.
The Need
Disconnected packaging design often results in errors, material waste, and label compliance issues.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Integrates packaging design with formulation data, managing all components within a unified BOM and embedding regulatory requirements.
Streamlined NPD Process
Accelerate new product development with standardized workflows and cross-functional collaboration. Reduce time-to-market while ensuring quality.
The Need
Haphazard NPD workflows and poor cross-functional collaboration lead to extended time-to-market.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Offers structured, automated workflows for NPD, from ideation to commercialization, accelerating product launch cycles.
Quality & Compliance Management
Ensure consistent product quality and meet global regulatory requirements. Aras enables proactive compliance with real-time tracking and control.
The Need
Manual quality checks and fragmented data hinder proactive risk management and regulatory adherence.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Integrates quality control points, manages specifications, tracks testing results, and documents compliance to standards.
Global Regulatory Management
Ensure compliance with international regulations across regions. Aras centralizes documentation and streamlines regulatory updates.
The Need
Keeping pace with a constantly changing landscape of global regulations is complex and error-prone.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Acts as a central repository for regulatory intelligence, flagging potential non-compliance issues during formulation or labeling.
Data Centralization
Aras PLM unifies product data across departments, eliminating silos and enabling real-time access to accurate information.
The Need
Disparate data silos (spreadsheets, local drives, emails) lead to inconsistencies and duplication.
The Solution with Aras PLM
A secure, centralized database stores all product data, ensuring everyone accesses the most current and accurate information.
Version Control
Version Control ensures teams always work on the latest product data, reducing errors and rework. It maintains a complete history of changes for full traceability and compliance.
The Need
Tracking changes to recipes or packaging without a robust system becomes chaotic and error-prone.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Robust versioning tracks every modification with timestamps and user attribution, providing a complete audit trail.
Workflow Automation
Automate routine processes to reduce manual effort and ensure consistent task execution across teams.
The Need
Slow, bottleneck-prone manual handoffs and outdated approval processes severely hinder operational efficiency and scalability.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Powerful workflow engines automate and standardize development processes, reducing lead times with notifications and task assignments.
System Integration
Seamlessly connects enterprise systems to ensure smooth, secure data flow across all departments and functions.
The Need
Seamless data flow is required between R&D, production (MES), procurement (ERP), quality labs (LIMS) to ensure accuracy, traceability, faster decision-making.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Robust APIs connectors create a seamless, connected digital thread between PLM and critical enterprise systems, enabling real-time data flow and collaboration.
Scalability & Cloud
Easily scale across global operations with Aras' flexible architecture. Cloud deployment ensures accessibility, security, and low IT overhead.
The Need
Accommodating growing product portfolios, user numbers, and geographical expansion, while maintaining performance and reduced IT overhead.
The Solution with Aras PLM
Aras PLM solutions are designed for scalability, with flexible cloud options providing accessibility, resilience, and long-term business continuity.
The Proof: Tangible Results
The value of Aras Innovator is demonstrated through measurable improvements and real-world success stories. Select a case study below to see how different companies have benefited, with results visualized in the chart.
Global Soft Drink Co.
Challenge
Lengthy new flavor launch cycles due to manual recipe management, disconnected packaging design, and complex global regulatory approvals.
Aras PLM Solution
Centralized recipe data, integrated packaging design tools, and a regulatory module for country-specific requirements.
Tangible Benefits
- 30% Reduction in Time-to-Market
- 15% Reduction in Packaging Rework
- Improved Global Compliance
Rapidly Expanding Craft Brewery
Challenge
Inconsistent batch quality, difficulties scaling unique beer recipes, and manual, paper-based traceability.
Aras PLM Solution
Tailored Aras PLM for recipe management, quality control points, and supplier data, integrated with their MES.
Tangible Benefits
- 50% Reduction in Batch Variation
- Enhanced End-to-End Traceability
- Accelerated Recipe Scale-Up
Large Dairy Beverage Producer
Challenge
Managing shelf-life for diverse products, rapid response to allergen alerts, and ensuring compliance across fragmented legacy systems.
Aras PLM Solution
Aras PLM with strong quality management, allergen tracking, and integration with their LIMS, providing robust change management.
Tangible Benefits
- Proactive Allergen Management & Enhanced Food Safety Compliance
- Faster, More Targeted Recall Management
- Optimized Shelf-Life & Reduced Waste
At Accrevent, We Drive Digital Transformation
With cutting-edge technology and strategic execution, our mission is to empower businesses with innovative, tailored solutions. We take a client-first approach to address challenges, streamline integrations, and enhance efficiency.
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