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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