Moving consumer goods manufacturing closer to demand with flexible manufacturing.
Consumer goods manufacturers have become very good at optimizing individual functions. Volatility doesn't care. A demand spike, supply disruption, new regulation or change in consumer preferences quickly ripples across product development, manufacturing and operations. Increasingly, success depends on understanding those connections and acting on them. The manufacturers responding fastest are often the ones that can see the downstream impact of decisions across the business and adjust before competitors do. This shift from optimizing functions to connecting decisions is creating new possibilities across the consumer goods industry.