Leading Consumer Packaged Goods Companies
Adopt Agile Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
Agile and Deloitte work together to meet the
needs of the CPG industry
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San Jose, CA - November 12, 2003 - Agile
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL), a leading
provider of product lifecycle management (PLM)
solutions, today announced its expanded presence
in the consumer packaged goods industry with
implementations at companies including Leapfrog,
Philips Oral Healthcare and Playtex . These
organizations are using Agile PLM solutions to
bring new products to market faster, create higher
quality goods, enable brand extensions, reduce
regulatory compliance costs, and increase
competitiveness within new and existing
categories.
"In the CPG industry, the ability to choose
winning concepts and accelerate time-to-market
while still maintaining brand integrity and
quality is essential," said Tim Minahan, vice
president, supply chain research, Aberdeen Group.
"Agile solutions have been well known for product
collaboration and cost management in complex
manufacturing industries. Agile's growth in CPG is
a natural industry expansion, enabling companies
to capture and manage all the information related
to the CPG product record—including
specifications, packaging and artwork design, test
methods, standard operating procedures, labeling,
and manufacturing instructions."
CPG companies driving business results with Agile
PLM include:
Leapfrog Enterprises, a leading developer of
educational products, uses Agile PLM to manage
design and product changes across a set of
globally dispersed contract manufacturers, design
centers, and packaging centers.
Philips Oral Healthcare, the maker of Sonicare®—a
market leader in the powered toothbrush category,
uses Agile PLM to manage new product introductions
and the product record across the entire lifecycle
from ideation to product refreshes.
Playtex Products, a leading manufacturer of
personal care products including Banana Boat,
Diaper Genie, Ogilvie, Playtex Feminine
Healthcare, and Woolite, uses Agile to collaborate
with its contract packagers to cost effectively
bring products to market faster, develop retail
display systems to build brand awareness, and
ensure regulatory compliance. "As one of the
world's best-known consumer product companies,
Playtex is committed to providing consumers with
high quality and innovative products," said Vince
Viviani, vice president of quality systems,
Playtex Products Inc. "Agile has demonstrated its
strength and expertise in the consumer packaged
goods market and has enabled us to provide higher
quality products in compliance with stringent
government regulations."
Agile and Deloitte Team to Deliver CPG Best
Practices and Solutions
Agile has teamed with Deloitte to deliver best
practices, complementary solutions and systems
integration services to consumer product goods
companies.
"Agile has now demonstrated industry-leading
solutions that would help consumer product
companies streamline their processes and manage
their product development more effectively," said
George Young, principal, Deloitte. "Agile is
well-positioned to address the consumer packaged
goods market challenges of new product
introductions, collaborative initiatives, narrow
market windows, and increasingly stringent
regulations."
"Time to market and new product introductions can
be the difference between winning and losing in
the CPG industry," said Jay Fulcher, president and
COO, Agile. "We’re pleased that customers like
Leapfrog, Philips Oral Healthcare and Playtex
trust Agile’s best-practice PLM solutions to
increase the success rate of new products to drive
profitability and build consumer brand equity.
Agile customers demand rapid time to value, deep
domain expertise and measurable results from their
PLM investments. Partnering with Deloitte, a
recognized thought leader in the CPG industry,
expands Agile’s solutions for our CPG customers."
About Agile Software Corporation
Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL) helps
companies drive profits, accelerate innovation,
reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance
throughout the product lifecycle. With a broad
suite of enterprise class PLM solutions,
time-to-value focused implementations, and a
unique Guaranteed Business ResultsSM program,
Agile helps companies get the most from their
products. Alcatel, Boeing, Dell Inc., Flextronics
International, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin,
Magna Steyr, Playtex, Siemens, and QUALCOMM are
among the nearly 1,200 customers in the
automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer
products, electronics, high tech, industrial
products, and life sciences industries that use
Agile solutions. For more information, call (408)
284-4000 or visit
www.agile.com.
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