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Globalization. Escalating costs. Ever-changing customer preferences and retailer and regulatory requirements. To thrive in this environment, consumer products manufacturers must develop new ways to become more consumer-driven and stay ahead of the competition, while further establishing a foundation for profitable growth.

With its industry-specific processes, best practices, and technology, SAP for Consumer Products serves as a business process platform, enabling innovation of your core business processes.

How Does SAP for Consumer Products Drive Business Improvements?

SAP's comprehensive suite of applications, integrated with leading business support and analytical software, enables you to optimize key end-to-end business processes - and achieve key business goals:

• Best people and talent – Workforce and talent management processes enable you to spend less time on administration and more time on high-value activities.
• Financial excellence – Financial performance management processes help you reduce operating costs, drive business performance, and mitigate risks.
• Differentiated consumer marketing – Marketing processes enable you to deliver coordinated, compelling, and differentiated programs to your customers and consumers.
• Product and service leadership – Product innovation processes enable you to be the first to market with products that consumers want.
• A responsive supply network – Supply chain management and manufacturing processes that improve your ability to respond faster and more profitably to demand and supply dynamics.
• Superior customer value – Sales and service processes enable you to link global strategies to customer program execution, driving profitable long-term customer relationships.