PLM Software targets consumer goods industry.

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Teamcenter® Consumer and Packaged Goods enables clients to collaborate with suppliers, business allies, and customers at all stages of product lifecycle. Software helps accelerate artwork and package design and approval process and promotes best practices via process templates. Phases and gates within process template provide management framework from which team members understand overall product initiative and automatically receive individual assignments.



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EDS PLM Solutions Announces New Release of Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solution


Industry solutions designed to improve clients' competitiveness and time-to-market

PDMA 2003 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, BOSTON - EDS PLM Solutions today announced the new release of Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods, the newest industry solution built on the world's leading product lifecycle management (PLM) software portfolio, Teamcenter. Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods enables clients to collaborate with suppliers, business allies and customers in a web-centric extended enterprise across all stages of the product lifecycle.

The company made the announcement in conjunction with the PDMA (Product Development and Management Association) in Boston. PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products - both new manufactured goods and new services.

Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods accelerates the artwork and package design and approval process on both new and existing concepts by harnessing and leveraging brand equity and intellectual capital. With optimized product packaging processes, clients are able to deliver more new products to market, continuously improve package performance and artwork quality and win in the market through greater consumer acceptance and customer loyalty.

"With our implementation of Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods, we're reducing costs and time-to-market while improving competitive responsiveness," said Tom Massung, associate director, IT Business Solutions -- PLM, Procter & Gamble. "We're winning in the store with superior packages and perfect artwork, and we're winning in the home with packaging designed to last through the life of the product."

Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods is pre-packaged with industry-specific processes and knowledge that allow it to be implemented quickly and cost effectively for fast time-to-value.

"EDS PLM Solutions is committed to delivering a quick return-on-investment to our Teamcenter customers," said Tony Affuso, president of EDS PLM Solutions. "Our industry solutions bring together process knowledge, industry expertise and software in packages that are fast-to-implement for immediate results. Now, with Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods added to our Teamcenter industry solutions portfolio, we're bringing solutions to emerging markets where the broader benefits of PLM have only just begun to be realized."

This release of Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods integrates new packaging capabilities with existing artwork design and execution capabilities. The solution accelerates product introduction and reduces costs by promoting best practices via "process templates." The phases and gates within a process template provide a management framework from which team members understand the overall product initiative and automatically receive their individual assignments.

Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged Goods is built on Teamcenter, the PLM digital enterprise backbone, with industry-leading, proven solutions targeted at lifecycle domain and industry-focused business challenges where quick implementation and a rapid return on investment are essential. Teamcenter elevates knowledge as a corporate asset, uniting product knowledge with process innovation to deliver business value throughout the product lifecycle.

About EDS PLM Solutions

EDS PLM Solutions is the market leader in product lifecycle management (PLM), providing solutions to the global 1000. Product lifecycle management enables all the people who participate in a manufacturer's product lifecycle to work in concert to develop, deliver and support best-in-class products. As the only single-source provider of PLM software and services, EDS PLM Solutions can transform the product lifecycle process into true competitive advantage, delivering leadership improvements in product innovation, quality, time-to-market and end-customer value. Learn more at eds.com/plm.

About EDS

EDS, the premier global outsourcing services company, delivers superior returns to clients through its cost-effective, high-value services model. EDS' core portfolio comprises information-technology and business process outsourcing services, as well as information-technology transformation services. EDS' two complementary, subsidiary businesses are A.T. Kearney, one of the world's leading high-value management consultancies, and PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management, collaboration and product design software. With 2002 revenue of $21.5 billion, EDS is ranked 80th on the Fortune 500. The company's stock is traded on the New York (NYSE: EDS) and London stock exchanges. Learn more at eds.com.

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