Managing product development across thousands of SKUs and hundreds of suppliers requires retailers to coordinate information, workflows, and teams across a large product portfolio. PLM software can provide a central point for connecting these activities as the number of products and supplier relationships grows.
Adam Sinley, Sr. Director, Product Development / QA / Regulatory at UNFI, explains how Trace One PLM supports UNFI Brands across its business operations. With more than 5,000 active SKUs and over 500 supplier partners, UNFI uses the solution as part of supplier startup, new product development, and ongoing product maintenance throughout the year.
According to Adam, Trace One has enabled efficiency and project management workflows while providing a connecting point across UNFI’s cross-functional teams. He explains that this helps projects move faster and supports claims, marketing applications, and compliance activities.
In this video, Adam shares how UNFI uses Trace One PLM to support a large product and supplier portfolio, connect cross-functional areas, and manage product development activities across its brands. He also describes how the solution has revolutionized the way UNFI approaches packaging for its brands.
“For UNFI Brands, Trace One is an essential element of all of our business operations.
It’s part of our supplier startup. It’s part of all of our new product and maintenance items, and development throughout the year. And when we talk about portfolio, we have over five thousand active SKUs. We have five hundred plus suppliers that we partner with.
And so, the solution has enabled efficiency. It’s enabled project management workflows and is a real connecting point with all of our cross-functional areas, which makes projects go faster, which enables our claims and marketing application through compliance.
And really has revolutionized how we do packaging for our brands.”
— Adam Sinley, Sr. Director, Product Development / QA / Regulatory at UNFI