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Infor PLM Optiva by Infor :: Last updated on January 26, 2007

Infor PLM Optiva is a Product Lifecycle Management solution for the Food & Beverage, Home & Personal Care and Specialty Chemical industries. Optiva integrates, streamlines and manages the entire process of product development, enabling companies to develop innovative products for the global market in less time, at lower cost while significantly reducing the risks associated with new product innovation. Using Optiva, companies such as Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup, Limited Brands and GE Plastics are reducing time-to-market, ensuring regulatory compliance and saving millions of dollars in cost savings.

Key Features

• Infor PLM Optiva seamlessly integrates the development of the three primary elements of a consumer product: Formula, Package and Label
• Infor PLM Optiva supports all the participants in the development process by providing a single version of the truth for all product information, and integrated tools for project, process, and product portfolio management, for managing the detailed research, experimentation and testing requirements of product development, and powerful tools for ensuring regulatory compliance
• Infor PLM Optiva allow companies to deploy a tight, bi-directional integration of product development and the supply chain, allowing issues such as sourcing, plant equipment requirements, first run quality and even local tariff rates to be addressed early in the development process enabling companies to design products based on actual supply chain requirements reducing the chance of downstream problems that cause delays and increase costs

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Core Capabilities

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Formulation

Industries

• Chemicals
• Consumer Packaged Goods - Beverage, Tobacco
• Consumer Packaged Goods - Food Products
• Consumer Packaged Goods - House, Health, Beauty Products
• Pharmaceuticals
• Plastics and Rubber Products

Target Business Size(s)

• Large (501+ users)
• Mid-Size (101-500 users)
• Small (1-100 users)

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