Managing Software: Is the food industry ready for Product Life Cycle Management?
Software enables communications among departments like sales, R&D and production.
Of course, there is precedent for the obfuscation. Who would guess that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) would have much to do with counting the cash or taking orders? PLM helps manage the life cycle of a product from idea to formulation, to testing, to production, to changes, to retirement. The focus of many of these products is R&D and the direct interaction with sourcing and production.