Integration Can Be Challenging, But We Need To Do It

Integration Can Be Challenging, But We Need To Do It
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In this guest blog, a key Kallik partner at professional services firm Kalypso shares their perspective on the importance of integration in the modern enterprise.

 

Why does integration matter?
 

If you don’t do integration right, you are failing to truly maximise the investment you have made in enterprise software, in the sense of leaving too big a gap between two very important business functions. Let’s back up a little so I can show you the basis of my understanding a little better. 

Kalypso is an Ohio-based consulting firm focused on helping clients to improve productivity and boost innovation. To that end, we’ve found the Kallik system a highly useful tool in our armoury, especially in the packaged goods sector. 

This is because packaging integrity and brand identity are becoming more and more important in this market, for all sorts of reasons – compliance being very important, of course, but many of these companies’ leadership see the need for integration between all the elements in their systems. And a lot of the time, we encounter two sorts of enterprise IT systems in those customer environments: the central corporate platforms, the Oracles and the SAPs, the classic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suites at one end of the scale and at the other, the PLM, the Product Lifecycle Management applications, which can sometimes be from the same suppliers. 

Generally speaking, the first set of systems is there to take care of the overall business – to process orders, handle the finance side, and so on. At the other end of that spectrum, we have the smaller PLM solutions, whose main job is to manage the integration of product design. This is a very typical snapshot of a lot of the consumer goods as well as regulated industries, I think you’ll agree.

Where does integration come in? It comes in when you want to marry the two sides up – when you want to connect the data that is in the ERP system with what you have in the PLM system so as to have a properly unified single source of truth for all your product information. It is probably worth saying at this point that the tool we use to help bridge the gap between the ERP and the PLM sides of the business - by working with our PLM assets on artwork and labelling content which is then integrated to ERP - is, the Kallik Veraciti™ Labeling and Artwork Platform, which we are happy to see is fully compatible with the leading products in both sectors.

 

A new systematic way of working
 

But there are challenges on the way to achieving that desired integration – a lot of them. We can start with the human one. A lot of teams outside the IT side of a business can often end up resisting what they feel are ‘monolithic’ attempts to unify all their data and workflows: you find quite typically that the IT department want everything in SAP, which can be difficult for some people in the business given the complexity of that very rich system. 

That’s sometimes compounded, in our experience, by the artwork side of the house not being too keen on being expected to work with PLM-style systems, either. Sometimes, you find the artwork team is just not really that convinced of the value of working in a systematised way, be that with ERP or PLM. The next level up in terms of integration challenges is the technical aspect of the integration (between ERP, PLM and artwork and labelling). 

To make that work, you have to be very sensitive to the architecture underpinning the proposed joined-up system you want to see emerge here. The key here is the old adage of KISS – it really does pay to Keep It Simple (Stupid). In the past, the technical elements of an integration project might be much more nuts and bolts, to do with making two non-standard or niche systems talk together. That’s less of an issue now, as so many organisations have standardised on SAPs and Oracles, for both ERP and PLM, as well as SQL RDBMS. So the main face of integration now is that overall architecture side, we are finding. Beyond human/cultural issues and possibly technical/compatibility hassles, what other challenges are there to effective integration around the packaging and labelling process? We find the final one to often be around business process integration. How does a business process around packaging, artwork and labelling management need to be adapted for seamless integration of data to take off?

 

The human factor (redux)
 

To some extent, this hearkens back to the people issue I mentioned, but at a level of greater complexity. There are often big changes here in the work styles and daily activities of team members that need to be carefully thought through and sensitively handled; get this stage wrong and your whole effort may end up going nowhere, frankly. Make sure you build in time for people to get used to new ways of working with artwork and labelling post the introduction of an integrated process via Kallik, is my advice. And we all may have to. 

In the past 20 years or so we here at Kalypso have seen more and more parts of our customers having to get to grips with integration, which is now touching more and more highly creative people who haven’t been asked to deal with this sort of technology before. We need to help them get used to this and get comfortable first if we want to get the main benefits of integration here: better throughput and efficiency. No pain, no (lots of) gain? It’s easy to lose sight of why we’d want to put in efforts around integration. 

The truth of the matter is that there is a huge value to be gained, despite these challenges. I always point to the Kalypso customer that implemented integration via Kallik and realised a 40% improvement in turnaround due to saved time and errors as the proof point as to why we want to do this. And if we can not just produce accurate artwork assets quicker but re-use those assets throughout the enterprise, then that’s also promoting efficiency as we are clearly not re-inventing any wheels any more.

My final comment, then, is that for any sort of company that has a lot of investment in packaging and labelling, that needs to get them right or done better, integration – for all the organisational, and, to a lesser extent these days, technical challenges it creates, it really does have to be the face of the future. I wish you good luck with all your integration efforts!


Want to know more? 


Whether you’re in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, medical device, chemical, or even the cosmetic industry, our experts are ready to help you transform your labeling and artwork management with the help of our innovative software, leading the way in the labeling and artwork software space. Get in touch today to see what we can do for you at enquiries@kallik.com or call +44 (0) 1827 318100.

How Labeling Helps Satisfy The Ethical Cosmetics Buyer

How Labeling Helps Satisfy The Ethical Cosmetics Buyer
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Chief Delivery Officer

Ask practitioners in the cosmetics sector what they think are the drivers of change in their industry and the answer comes back pretty quickly: consumer demand for complete sourcing clarity. I recently caught up with a prominent executive from the cosmetics sector to find out more.

Today, consumers — especially Gen Z ones — are more conscious than ever about the effect of what they buy or consume on the environment. As a result, they have high expectations about the brands they buy from around transparency of ingredients and guidance on how best to safely recycle what they’ve just purchased.

This is nowhere more true in the cosmetics world, where concerns about potentially harmful ingredients or allergens and ethical concerns around the supply chain are a priority for buyers. Consumers now pay closer attention to the information provided by cosmetics brands across their labeling, from physical packaging to online resources. Indeed, being clear about these aspects is even starting to be seen as a differentiator; a 2019 survey by NPD Group found that skincare brands pledging ingredient transparency are gaining new traction in the market, over half of American women consciously now seek out skincare products that have organic ingredients, while 46% say they will only now pick products without sulfates, phthalates and gluten, a six-point increase from 2017.


Dealing with Multiple Market Contexts


Clearly, the public is paying very close attention to product information, and know what’s in products and how ‘natural’ they are — research which often starts online. It’s a trend that regulators are supporting too: they are putting more and more pressure on brands to ensure they provide complete, accurate and up-to-date information on all of their products, and that they make no unauthorized or false claims about them.

This ends a long period of self-regulation, and authorities have signalled they are going to be more proactive in keeping consumers safe. The challenge for international cosmetics leaders, is that this changes decades of practice, especially around labeling. There’s a big push now to keep it consistent, transparent, consumer-friendly and on message, which can be tricky if each market has its own special regulatory requirements, different cultural reference points and ways of wording safety messages.

So ensuring that each product carries exactly the right label content for the intended market and target consumer group is the mission now, from eye liner to sunscreen. Unless the cosmetics company has a clear line of sight across both evolving market requirements per country and how these affect each product and its different forms of labeling/customer information, however, the risk of wrong or out-of-date information getting through could be significant. Risks to consumer safety, reputational damage, potential fines and loss of revenue if products are rejected or withdrawn from affected markets all need to be avoided...

But labeling encompasses a lot! It’s everything stated on the product itself, which could be designed or embossed directly onto a bottle to promotional inserts in magazines and product information published online. This adds up to a lot of collateral to coordinate and control for accuracy, currency, quality and compliance. But if these different elements are handled by different teams, or wheels have to be reinvented time and again, the demand on resources but also the danger of something going wrong are considerable.


Centralized Quality Control


To alleviate spiraling workloads, mitigate risk and keep pace with evolving requirements without compromising label quality, cosmetics brands should consider introducing some form of central control and visibility across everything that is going out to the market, anywhere in the world. This means creating a single source of labeling truth that acts as the foundation for all forms of future labeling, so if anything changes — to you as a company, to the product or its ingredients, or to regulatory requirements — this can be managed in a controlled and robust way from a single, central vantage point.

Hence the useful approach of centralizing and organizing the construction and quality control of global labeling. When introduced correctly, this can also help transform the processes involved, for instance in discovering label inter-dependencies if requirements or other conditions change, as all global label activity is mapped and tracked. And great shortcuts like ‘phrase managers’ for different languages can reduce the translation burden too, by eliminating repetition of routine tasks such as the construction of common directions for use in each target language/country.


Offering What The Ethical Consumer Is Demanding


In cosmetics, the ability to treat each labeling item as a composite of pre-approved text or artwork components eliminates unnecessary process duplication, leaving your skilled professionals free to focus more of their time on the elements that do need to change. As well as substantially reducing the safety implications, cost and reputational damage associated with product recalls, doing your product labeling will help to safeguard the brand and maintain public confidence in the quality and safety of its products — as we’ve seen, increasingly an operational necessity in our highly competitive, global market.

 

Want to know more?


Whether you’re in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, medical device, chemical, or cosmetic industry, our experts are ready to help you transform your labeling and artwork management with the help of our innovative software, leading the way in the labeling and artwork software space. Get in touch today to see what we can do for you at enquiries@kallik.com or call +44 (0) 1827 318100.

How Cosmetics Labeling, Packaging & Ingredients Have Been Impacted By COVID-19

How Cosmetics Labeling, Packaging & Ingredients Have Been Impacted By COVID-19
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Chief Delivery Officer

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has impacted not just developments and processes in the cosmetics industry but most importantly, the global economy, in various ways. Most notably, it has influenced consumers’ purchase decisions and spending habits.

A recent Mintel research report shows that coronavirus will also affect clean beauty ingredients, labeling, formulation, packaging, and shelf-stability for years to come. Other sectors that have been in constant change are beauty retail, order fulfillment, and manufacturing.


Clean beauty and sustainable innovation


Prior to the pandemic, natural consumers avoided preservatives and artificial ingredients in BPC products, however, with new concerns regarding shelf-stability and sanitation across consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) categories, consumers are already more willing to accept these ingredients. As long as the labels provide evidence of efficacy and safety, both from a health and environmental perspective, consumers will focus less on preservatives and artificial ingredients. (GCIMagazine.com, 2020).


Packaging in a ‘new era of transparency’


Consumers, even during this pandemic, are not only looking for clean beauty, but for recycled and sustainable packaging that has a minimum environmental impact. Current regulations and technical constraints make incorporating recycled materials into the many types of plastic packaging the cosmetics industry uses, a challenge nearly impossible to meet.

Why is it so hard? All cosmetics products manufactured and supplied in the UK and across the EU are governed by the Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No.1223/2009 and its amendments.

The guidance document acknowledges that although there are ‘’no specific regulations governing the inclusion of recycled content in cosmetics products’’, packaging purity and stability have to exist to ensure the safety of final products. With the novel coronavirus invading and changing the normality we are all used to, just last month,  the European Commission adopted its latest Circular Economy Action Plan for Europe, which sits at the core of a wider European Deal published late last year.

Christine Lawson, sustainability and technical affairs manager at CTPA, said that the guidance is also important for how labeling and artwork should now be better incorporated in the packaging process in order to produce a ‘’fast-moving and incredibly innovative’’ cosmetics and personal sector.

‘’It will inform and help companies build-in decisions from the early stages of product development to create the most sustainable ways of presenting products with minimum environmental impact and enhancing circularity of resources,’’ Lawson said.


Product formulation and labeling changes


We see changes in the way consumers now understand the notion of natural, bio, and organic from their trusted products’ labels. They will further push the idea that natural isn’t always better, especially when it comes to ingredient safety and shelf life. From an ingredients perspective, the pandemic has enabled the creation of formulas that will rely on safe synthetic ingredients, which could potentially improve shelf life.

Mintel analyst, Clare Henningan, discusses the importance of keeping pace with the evolving requirements of post-COVID-19 labeling quality and processes without compromising brand integrity and visibility. The time is now for brands to consider introducing a better-developed form of central control and transparency across everything that is going out to the market globally.

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, one of the major opportunities that cosmetic brands will have to focus on is waterless formulas, which could appeal to consumers’ safety and environmental concerns. But formula changes will result in cosmetics businesses undertaking what could be a monolithic re-labeling project. In a time where efficiency and cost optimization is key to survival, cosmetic businesses would be advised to take on these sorts of changes by first creating a single source of labeling truth – of approved, current content components, which form the basis for all forms of future labeling. If anything changes to the brand, the product or its ingredients, to the manufacturer’s information, or to regulatory requirements, this should be managed in a controlled and robust way from a single to a central vantage point.


Opportunities for accelerated & automated label construction


We will all need products that mitigate risks of contamination by utilizing touchless formats and offering extended shelf life, making them stand out as safe and dependable. Brands that can demonstrate dependability, transparency, and willingness to take action to ensure product safety will be able to survive the already existing tough competition and the economic uncertainty and consumer shifts caused by this virus.

Having an enterprise labeling management solution isn’t just about centralizing the construction and improving the quality of control applied to global labeling. It can also help transform the process involved in changing brand standards, adding additional transparency, and making necessary product improvements. This is especially important during these challenging times, as consumers become more concerned with safety implications and ingredients visibility.

With coordinated control and end-to-end visibility of all labeling activity globally, brand owners are better able to spot any labeling and artwork issues ahead of time and apply changes quickly and efficiently. With time being such a critical factor during the current pandemic, trusted labeling will help to safeguard the brand and maintain public confidence in the quality and safety of products produced.

Unfortunately, COVID-19 data has already shown us that there will be winners and losers that surface in the onslaught of all this uncertainty.  Cosmetics businesses are already threatened by changing buyer behavior, with consumers focusing less on unessential beauty purchases and more on hygiene and personal safety.

The cosmetics businesses that can rapidly adjust to new consumer expectations while increasing transparency and safety of their products will come out on top. A dedicated, intelligent control around label construction will enable cosmetic businesses to increase efficiencies, improve visibility, and reduce regulatory errors for better brand control that align with new consumer expectations.


Want to know more?


Whether you’re in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, medical device, chemical, or even the cosmetic industry, our experts are ready to help you transform your labeling and artwork management with the help of our innovative software, leading the way in the labeling and artwork software space. Get in touch today to see what we can do for you at enquiries@kallik.com or call +44 (0) 1827 318100.

The Benefits Of Automated Artwork & Labeling Have Never Been Clearer

The Benefits Of Automated Artwork & Labeling Have Never Been Clearer
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Chief Executive Officer

A persistent challenge in highly regulated industries is getting the right label on the right product at the right time. Ever-changing regulations can make this a long and arduous task, particularly when these companies maintain the usage of outdated manual labeling and artwork management processes. It is clear that the introduction of an automated system can provide value, but the question is: how?


A quick thought experiment...


Consider a designer taking 30 minutes to create a label at $40 an hour. 1000 labels would cost $20,000 to produce conventionally. Not only can Automated Artwork Generation save $1000’s by producing labels quickly and automatically, it will get it right the first time too. This is a great advantage when it comes to responding to regulatory changes, making label changes a much more straight-forward, clean process. Furthermore, this method vastly minimises the risk of recalls, which can incur massive costs in high-stakes industries. In fact, we’ve found that in the case of many of our customers, automation has allowed organisations to reach an average label and artwork generation time of well under 60 seconds.


Real-life results


Throughout 2020, we at Kallik were able to capture highly impressive Veraciti™ user data. User data improved as the year went on, as a result of continuous development in Veraciti™ tools and technology. This, in combination with our release of Project Brief Manager 3, has allowed us to achieve spectacular results, such as a 50% reduction in project completion time at a major life science company. The very same tools and technology that delivered this incredible reduction simultaneously handled a 27% increase in the number of labels or artworks being generated by Veraciti™.

Of course, the migration of our solution to AWS has also been paramount in maximising these benefits. The added speed and security which the AWS cloud provides has aided our customers in countless ways, with enhanced resilience, full compliance with ISO/IEC standards, GxP requirements and data privacy, these benefits have had a knock-on effect.

Through the adoption of our automated platform, a leading medical device company can now process a typical monthly workload of over 8,000 artwork creation jobs at an average rate of one job per 37 seconds, in turn cutting average label and artwork project completion time from 52 to just 26 days. A major chemical company, meanwhile, has seen artwork generation times slashed by 75% over a four-month period to an average of just 12 seconds per artwork generation, with another in the oil & lubricants sector reaching just 3 seconds per task.


Innovative automated artwork and label management is the way forward


Organisations in highly regulated industries who are adopting automated artwork and label generation in favour of using manual processes or outsourcing design work to third parties are seeing major time and cost reductions. Through further investment and innovation, we hope that our Veraciti™ statistics will reflect these advantages even further as 2021 progresses. We are committed to providing our customers with optimal efficiency and results.

Beyond helping companies in highly regulated industries get to grips with disparate labelling and artwork processes, our findings also demonstrate the benefits of automation scale over time and as organisations grow their operations. Many of these organisations have traditionally employed third-party designers to create and amend artwork and labels to great expense, with these assets numbering in the thousands. The cost efficiencies for bringing these operations in-house and introducing automation are clear.

Automation has a critical role to play for industries such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, cosmetics and food & beverages, where regulations are tight and mistakes can have serious effects on brand reputation or consumer health. 

As we have seen with the rush to comply with EU Medical Device Regulations and the potential regulatory shifts of a prospective Brexit deal, the agility and centralised control of a dedicated artwork and label management solution has become a necessity for businesses rather than simply a nice thing to have; automation is the future of efficient and reliable label and artwork management.

3 Ways Improving Your Labeling & Artwork Management Process Drives Speed To Market

3 Ways Improving Your Labeling & Artwork Management Process Drives Speed To Market
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Chief Delivery Officer

Highly regulated industries are continually being hit with more stringent rules and changes, particularly when it comes to their artwork and labels. As product portfolios grow and businesses penetrate new markets, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify and respond to the changes that these new regulations entail in a timely manner. 

This has a subsequent impact on speed to market, for both new and existing products, and can also result in product recalls if this process is handled inadequately. While your business needs to get products to market quickly to remain competitive, it is essential that this process is also quality-driven in order to maintain regulatory compliance.


Basic artwork management is not enough


Historically, there has been a major focus within these markets on artwork management, where artworks are approved, stored in an asset manager and version controlled. However, Gartner notes that ‘what has typically been called labeling and artwork management in the past is only artwork management that governs artwork activities for the final product packaging’. 

Enterprise labeling and e-labeling technology has subsequently emerged to ‘address the distinct needs of specialized labeling, product traceability and transparency’. It has become increasingly clear that an artwork management system is not enough to achieve speed to market. 

Enterprise label management will take your business to the next level in terms of speed to market and compliance. More and more businesses are discovering the benefits of a single, end-to-end enterprise labeling and artwork management (LAM) solution that both encapsulates and compartmentalizes the entire labeling process. Compliance is guaranteed through the ability to access audits from every step of the process, identifying problems instantaneously and preventing long-term issues such as recalls or wider compliance shortfalls.

In a highly competitive business world, the ability to quickly locate labels affected by regulatory changes and make swift amendments to them is of greater significance than ever for companies that operate on a global scale. When thinking about sharpening your label and artwork management process to drive business growth, there are three key areas to focus on:


1. Structure your data to drive traceability and quality 


In order to appreciate the value of managing and structuring your data correctly, it is helpful to consider the consequences of not doing this. Imagine that you have 10,000 products in your portfolio, and 50% of these are sold in a market where you are required to place a specific regulatory symbol on all labeling. The regulator requires you to use a different version of this symbol and you have 6 months to implement this change across all of your products. How easy would it be to find all labels and artwork which use the old symbol, update them with the new symbol and send them for approval? For most organisations, just the task of finding the impacted artworks alone can take months, due to the fact that their data structures do not allow this traceability.

Data needs to be structured in a way that allows the individual elements of an artwork or label to be managed independently of the artwork itself. Phrases, translations, symbology, imagery and all other aspects of the label need to be individually stored in centralized asset and phrase managers. This enables version control of each constituent part, as well as the ability to pre-approve each component, so you know that you're building your label with correct and compliant data. The value of this method of label data storage cannot be overstated, as it provides a basis for simplifying and optimizing the rest of the labeling process. It enables common components to be standardized and reused across all artwork and labels, and getting the data right upfront means the artwork creation process is much smoother.


2. Enable collaboration across the value chain


Once all of your label components are contained within a single location, the relevant data can be structured into a label dataset. At this stage, you can select each of the components (images, phrases etc) that your label requires and determine where they appear with the confidence that each component has already been pre-approved. 

Collaboration is key here; stakeholders across various teams such as product, marketing, regulatory and legal may be required to contribute to the label dataset. Automated routing should be in place to ensure that the people who need to give their input or approve artworks are given the opportunity to do so. Furthermore, the system you use for this needs to be readily available across the globe with 24/7/365 uptime to ensure that all timezones are catered for; cloud hosting makes this possible. 

Preventing delays at the artwork creation and approval stages is paramount to speed to market, and digitizing the data collation and approval process ensures that new artworks get to the relevant approvers as soon as possible. If the data is correct the first time and it goes straight to the people who need to see it, your new label will require far fewer rounds of approval. Speed to market is not just about how quickly the label itself is changed; it is ensuring that approvals are correctly executed the first time around too.


3. Automate traditionally manual & time consuming processes


Of course, speed to market can be improved beyond centralizing the process to one end-to-end system. Having all of your labels in a central location is one thing, but finding every label that uses a specific component is another. 

The enterprise labeling solution you choose needs to enable you to easily identify all labels that are affected by changing regulations. Take the example of the post-Brexit change from the CE mark to the UKCA mark on products sold on the UK market: the affected labels can be identified automatically through setting a simple search criteria. Perhaps in this instance the search would include (1) All UK labels (2) containing the CE mark component. This sort of search function can return search results in a matter of seconds, giving your company an accurate representation of the task at hand. 

Apply this process to tens of thousands of affected products that would otherwise need to be identified manually, and the value of this function becomes very clear - even finding just 100 impacted labels manually is an incredibly time-consuming process. In the pursuit of speed to market, the ability to easily locate labels with any given components is essential regardless of your company size.

Another clear way to speed up the process of getting a product to market is to automate artwork creation. Many businesses outsource their label artwork to external design teams, disconnecting an otherwise streamlined, end-to-end process. In the case of technical labels predominantly found in the chemical and life science industries, labels can be generated completely automatically with the right LAM solution; once the relevant components are chosen, the software will create the label for you using pre-defined templates. New artworks can be created in seconds, instead of weeks.


Digitizing your labeling and artwork management process will support revenue growth
 

An intelligent enterprise labeling and artwork management solution provides numerous competitive advantages across highly regulated industries. Kallik’s market leading solution, Veraciti™, is already helping our customers across medical devices, chemicals, cosmetics and food & beverage industries achieve huge efficiencies in their labeling processes. At Kallik, we’ve seen our customer’s project completion times cut in half, with an average label and artwork generation time of less than 60 seconds, monumentally improving speed to market. Find out more about our impressive statistics here.

Medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms, chemical and cosmetics companies use Kallik to deliver trust in their labeling, confidence in their brand and integrity in their process. If you want to find out more about how we can support your label and artwork management transformation in your business, please get in touch at beth.peckover@kallik.com. We’d be more than happy to help.

Kallik’s Guide to Mastering Enterprise Labeling & Artwork in 2024

Kallik’s Guide to Mastering Enterprise Labeling & Artwork in 2024
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Content Manager

In a world where regulations tighten, consumer demands evolve, and sustainability takes precedence, the Labeling and Artwork industry is undergoing a profound digital transformation. Our comprehensive guide (Top Tips: Your Guide to Mastering Enterprise Labeling & Artwork in 2024) delves into this revolution, offering insights from industry experts and real-world success stories that highlight the crucial role of digitalization.
 

Embracing the Digital Revolution


The shift from traditional processes to cloud-based, automated platforms in labeling and artwork management (LAM) has become a strategic imperative for organizations navigating regulatory complexities and adapting to changing market landscapes. Cloud-based solutions have emerged as the cornerstone, enabling global collaboration, instant updates, and enhanced security. According to Gartner, by 2025, an estimated 85% of businesses will have adopted cloud-based technologies into their daily operations—a trend that's reshaping the industry's standards and capabilities.
 

The Power of Artificial Intelligence and Automation


Integrating AI-driven systems has revolutionized accuracy and speed in LAM, significantly reducing errors and facilitating swift adaptations to regulatory changes. Automated artwork creation and modification, often taking just seconds, have replaced weeks of manual revisions. The transformative impact of AI isn't just about efficiency; it's about achieving complete regulatory compliance and instilling confidence in labeling accuracy.
 

Template Technology: A Game-Changer in Efficiency and Compliance


Template technology offers agility, scalability, and compliance, leading to significant cost savings and ensuring precision in label and artwork management. Its impact extends beyond financial implications, playing a vital role in regulatory adherence, particularly in critical industries like healthcare.
 

Prioritizing Personalization and Sustainability


The demand for sustainable packaging and labeling is at an all-time high. Digital platforms are enabling businesses to swiftly adapt to eco-friendly practices through customizable, pre-designed templates, ensuring operational fluidity while meeting sustainability goals.
 

Looking Ahead to 2024


As we move further into 2024, the evolution of LAM continues to be driven by digital innovation. The strategic adoption of cloud-based solutions, AI integration, template technology, and a focus on sustainability is shaping the future of enterprise labeling and artwork management. This digital transformation isn't just an upgrade—it's a fundamental revolution that propels businesses toward operational excellence and unwavering precision in a fast-paced global marketplace.

 

Your Next Step in Mastering LAM


If you're eager to learn more about the digitalization of labeling and artwork or seek guidance on enhancing your LAM process, our comprehensive guide offers expert insights and success stories to guide your journey. Download the full guide here and take the first step toward mastering enterprise labeling and artwork in 2024.
 

For personalized advice and assistance tailored to your business needs, speak to a Kallik expert today by emailing enquiries@kallik.com. Your journey toward a more efficient, compliant, and sustainable LAM process begins here.
 

Download the full guide for expert insights and success stories in mastering Enterprise Labeling & Artwork in 2024.