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Digitally transforming labeling for success: A case study from the food & beverage industry
Ken Moir, VP Marketing
Janez Sodja, Enterprise Sales Manager
Today’s objectives
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At the end of this webinar, you will have learned how to:
• Minimize revenue loss and increase sales by eliminating labeling or marking errors
• Achieve faster time-to-market by empowering business users to respond to label change
requests without IT assistance
• Reduce IT costs and unplanned downtime by taking a holistic approach to labeling
• Achieve new levels of productivity by no longer having to scrap or re-work mislabeled or
rejected product
What we’ll cover
• A quick introduction to NiceLabel
• The case study: How an F&B digitally transformed their labeling for success
• Key takeaways
• Where to learn more
• Questions
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About NiceLabel
About NiceLabel
• Labelling and Marking print productivity software
• 25+ years experience
• EMEA HQ and development team
• US, EMEA and APAC sales, service delivery and support teams
• Channel Partners in 100+ countries
• Long term Alliances with most major printer vendors
• Sato, Zebra, Avery and many others)
• >50% of all label printers globally ship with NL Technology
Selected food & beverage customers that have
transformed their labeling
Our partnerships that we work with in
food & beverage
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The case study
About the company
• International dairy company
• Many production facilities
• Products sold across the world
• A large manufacturer of organic dairy
products
About their environment
• Master and production data in SAP
• Dairies used Wonderware (MES) for
production
• Local MES synchronizes with centralized SAP
• 1000s of label and direct marking printers
spread across dairies
• Direct marking - print ‘best before date’ and
“lot number” directly onto product packaging
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Challenges
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• Fragmented environment with multiple solutions from direct
marking and labeling vendors
• Non-standardized integrations and label design done by
local system integrators
• Costly third party IT support
• Business couldn't do change requests
• Unplanned downtime
• Standalone systems and manual data entry common
The vision
• Eliminate unplanned downtime – Zero tolerance
• Reduce complexity
• Reduce third-party IT costs
• Standardize integration with MES
• Gain a competitive advantage
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A unified label management system from a single vendor
Roadblocks to the vision
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• Replacing existing printers with a
standardized brand too costly
• Legacy labeling software only supported
label printers
• Direct marking software only support their
own printers
50% printers are direct marking / 50% are label
Poll question #1
1. Yes
2. No (manual data entry of LOT and expiration date etc.)
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Are your direct marking printers integrated with your MES systems?
How the company transformed with NiceLabel?
Standardization and replication
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One ERP, one MES and one Label Management System
Centralized SAP
Decentralized Wonderware
Global
Site
Centralized NiceLabel
Decentralized NiceLabel
Automatic label printing
Manual label printing
QA &
Traceability
Accu
racy
Synchronization
The solution
• A single Label Management System for both label and direct marking printers
• All printers are integrated with MES
• NiceLabel has drivers for continuous inkjet (CIJ) printers
• Single system eliminates need for local IT development and support
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Unifying labeling and marking
The solution: the platform
Traceability
Printer managementDocument version
control
Users & roles
Digital label catalog
MANAGE
PRINT Easily deploy web
printing applications
Integrate printing from existing
business systems (many apps.)
DESIGNDesign dynamic label layouts (material,
product, Site/customer specific)
Label request and
approval workflows
Configure printing forms (GUI/mask) to
streamline manual printing processes
QA &
Traceability
Accuracy
Agility
The solution: the platform
Traceability
Devices controlDocument version
control
Users & roles
Digital label catalog
MANAGE
PRINT Easily deploy web
printing applications
Integrate printing from existing
business systems (many apps.)
DESIGNDesign dynamic label layouts (material,
product, Site/customer specific)
Label request and
approval workflows
Configure printing forms (GUI/mask) to
streamline manual printing processes
QA &
Traceability
Accuracy
Agility
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The solution: the designer
The solution: the platform
Traceability
Devices controlDocument version
control
Users & roles
Digital label catalog
MANAGE
PRINT Easily deploy web
printing applications
Integrate printing from existing
business systems (many apps.)
DESIGNDesign dynamic label layouts (material,
product, Site/customer specific)
Label request and
approval workflows
Configure printing forms (GUI/mask) to
streamline manual printing processes
QA &
Traceability
Accuracy
Agility
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The solution: document management system
The solution: the platform
Traceability
Devices controlDocument version
control
Users & roles
Digital label catalog
MANAGE
PRINT Easily deploy web
printing applications
Integrate printing from existing
business systems (many apps.)
DESIGNDesign dynamic label layouts (material,
product, Site/customer specific)
Label request and
approval workflows
Configure printing forms (GUI/mask) to
streamline manual printing processes
QA &
Traceability
Accuracy
Agility
The solution: the integration system
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Results
The business impact
• Minimized revenue loss and increased sales
• Accurate labels
• Less rejected product
• Faster-time-to-market
• Reduced IT costs and less unplanned downtime
• Standardized solution
• New levels of productivity
• Automated quality assurance
• Less re-worked product
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Results
Poll question #2
1. Yes
2. No
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Would you consider a single solution for label and marking printers?
NiceLabel shared our vision for a single solution
for labeling and marking. They were a true
partner in helping us achieve our goal.
NiceLabel was willing to go the extra mile when
other label software providers wouldn’t help us.
- Senior Solution Architect, Dairy Company
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7 key takeaways
1. Unite all your printers with one label management system
2. Integrate label and marking with your MES (and ERP systems)
3. Free up IT resources and empower business users
4. Create a fully transparent label process
5. Automate quality control
6. Increase agility and get faster time-to-market
7. Synchronize centrally for visibility and traceability
Digitally transform your labeling to:
Where to learn more
• White Paper: “How Food and Beverage Companies Can Digitally Transform Labeling to
Accelerate Growth”
• https://www.nicelabel.com/white-papers/food-beverage
• Article: “Advances in Food Labeling Systems” by Janez Sodja
• https://www.nicelabel.com/resources/files/doc/resources/articles/Asian_Food_Journal_May_June_20
17_Advances_in_Food_Labeling_Systems.pdf
• What Is The Future of Food Labeling Systems?
• http://business-review-webinars.com/hot_topics/what-is-the-future-of-food-labeling-systems/
• NiceLabel Food and Beverage micro-site
• www.nicelabel.com/food-beverage
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Thank youQuestions?
www.nicelabel.com/food-beverage
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