Aberdeen Group Highlights Trace One's PLM Suite and Packaging Manager
Boston – Retailers and manufacturers face intense pressure to get private label products to market faster and at lower costs. To address this challenge, Trace One today announced analyst validation of its integrated Packaging Manager solution with its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) suite for private label products. This integrated solution was recently highlighted as a viable solution in a Market Alert report from Aberdeen Group, an independent third-party voice in the technology industry.
The report, titled ‘Packaging Manager: Trace One’s Answer for Private Label Packaging Design and PLM’, recognized Trace One’s Packaging Manager for its ability to improve efficiencies in product development by bridging silos across business functions to address very complex requirements from legal and regulatory requirements to technical contents to promotional marketing information and artwork. The Market Alert report also states that integrating Trace One’s PLM with Packaging Manager allows organizations to link packaging to product information, streamline the process for designing packaging, and more easily manage changes to ensure labels do not contain errors due to outdated information or missed requirements.
Trace One’s PLM suite is currently utilized by 35 leading retail brands and more than 18,500 manufacturers worldwide. Packaging Manager, a collaborative e-solution for managing packaging design, has continued to gain significant market traction globally. Monoprix, a major French retailer, integrated Trace One’s Packaging Manager and PLM suite to provide all stakeholders, including marketers, suppliers, quality, and packaging designers, with up-to-date and accurate information at every step of the process.
“Trace One works almost like a brain,” Annick Beaumont, packaging team leader at Monoprix, stated in the Aberdeen report. “Everyone has a lot of work to keep track of but Trace One manages it by reminding each person what to do each day.”
“As evidenced by some of the tangible results achieved by our worldwide customers and as outlined in this latest Aberdeen Group Market Alert, PLM and Packaging integration can make a significant positive impact on an organization—greater market share, faster time to market, and higher profits to name a few,” said Jerome Malavoy, founder and CEO, Trace One. “Our commitment to innovation combined with our global footprint positions us well to continue to enhance our solutions and help even more retail manufacturers realize these benefits.”
To further educate retailers and manufacturers about the latest trends and best practices in PLM and Packaging integration, Trace One is co-sponsoring with Store Brand Decisions an upcoming webinar on May 22. This session, which will be moderated by Store Brand Decision’s editor, Maureen Azzato and feature insights and perspectives from Trace One’s Sahir Anand and the Food Marketing Institute’s Joe McKie, will reveal key 2013-2014 best practices, trends, and strategies that enable next generation private label management and product lifecycle processes. For more information or to register for this complimentary webinar, click here.
To download a complimentary copy of the Aberdeen Group’s Market Alert ““Packaging Manager: Trace One’s Answer for Private Label Packaging Design and PLM” click here.
To learn more about Trace One’s Packaging Manager, full PL PLM suite, or any other products, please visit www.traceone.com. To better understand Trace One’s customer and market success, watch this You Tube video.
Source: ‘Packaging Manager: Trace One’s Answer for Private Label Packaging Design and PLM’, Michelle Boucher, February 2013. Aberdeen Group, a Harte Hanks company, is a leading technology industry analyst firm headquartered in Boston.
About Trace One
Trace One was created in 2001 and launched the first collaborative online platform in SaaS (Software as a Service) mode for managing the development and quality of private label products. The Trace One user community spans the globe from Europe to North America to Asia, and the company has offices in Boston, Chicago, Paris, London, Madrid, and Hong Kong. Its mission is to drive food and non-food product innovation, support brand protection, and accelerate time-to-market for retailers, manufacturers and food service companies. Trace One is committed to enabling collaborative processes between retailers and manufacturers thereby optimizing the sourcing, tendering, launching and development of consumer goods, while controlling product information and ensuring product and food safety. This not only supports the protection of brands, but also maximizes profitability and competitiveness throughout the product lifecycle management process.