Consumer Packaged Goods

Informance complements our strategic efforts to migrate all business unites to common platforms.
Ron Christenson
Cargill, Corporate VP and CTO

EMI applications, such as Informance, generally begin to deliver value within days of being installed, offering an ROI that's measured in weeks and months, not years.
Allison Smith
AMR Research, Research Director

We consistently strive for best-in-class manufacturing performance. Informance enables effective continuous improvement, which is key to manufacturing flexibility, low variability, and, ultimately, outstanding customer value.
Ish Ahamed
Diageo Plainfield, VP Supply

Informance allows us to apply TPM loss elimination principles across our plants... We now have visibility of this information regardless of where you sit and can help replicate the improvement gains across multiple factories.
Tony Lippert
Unilever, Plant Manager

Schienvar calls the Informance Manufacturing Intelligence Suite used at L'Oreal a 'beautiful tool.'
Scott Schienvar
L'Oreal, Logistic Director

Informance gives us visibility into all of the facilities across our plant network to drive operational success.
Steve Belke
AkzoNobel, Supply Chain VP

The competitive climate is changing at an increasing pace. Managers are drowning in data, but starving for relevant information.
Carol Ptak
Pacific Lutheran University,
Former President APICS

By focusing on operator-identified problems, we addressed the obstacles from each operation within the value stream.
Pat Hatem
JohnsonDiversey, Plant Manager

We can show the cost of not spending capital at the push of a button.
Rich Mosgrove
Ventura, VP Manufacturing

Manufacturing Benchmarks in Consumer Packaged Goods Operations

The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry produces goods that consumers use and replace frequently, compared to products that are kept for a long time. Examples include clothing, toiletries and household items. Informance Solutions help a variety of CPG manufacturing operations drive improvement initiatives by reporting OEE and downtime losses in real time.

From March to September 2009, Informance studied 615 CPG manufacturing operations worldwide. Researchers used The Informance Plant Reporting Module (including patented analytics) to collect data, derive insight and discover correlations to operational success of tactical and strategic actions.

A large gap exists between the top and bottom performers in the CPG industry for a number of key performance indicators. By leveraging information from the most efficient operations, Informance has identified quick win opportunities to boost performance and cut costs for CPG manufacturers. For more information, read our Consumer Packaged Goods Benchmark Study.