Work with retailers to help solve their problems while you improve your operations, lower your costs, and increase your ability to service other customers. You can increase visibility into your manufacturing operations, improve customer service, and provide managers and sales personnel with fast access to the right information when they need it.

Respond quickly to-or better yet, anticipate-consumer trends by being able to review current sales and market data, and then make accurate, real-time decisions. Efficiently integrate manufacturing, financials, and procurement to shorten product development and manufacturing times, and speed time-to-market. You can even speed the process with easy-to-use, cross-company collaboration tools.

Quickly respond to changing demands by creating a transparent supply chain that helps you and your customers access relevant information-whether it's about product availability, prices, expiration dates, or promotions. Information gathered throughout the supply chain can help you realize your business goals, generate more profits, and determine where new business possibilities can be found.

Implement the best practices required to support and automate key safety requirements. You can enable the automatic tracking and tracing of raw materials and products at all stages of production, processing, and distribution. By doing so, you can also facilitate an automated recall process that can be completed in hours instead of days or weeks.