Church & Dwight Enhances Product Innovation

Church & Dwight Co. Inc., manufacturer of ARM & HAMMER consumer, specialty and other products, selects Sopheon's Accolade product lifecycle management (PLM) system to enhance the company's product innovation processes and strengthen its ability to meet rigorous product delivery requirements. Church & Dwight is deploying Accolade to users across brands and functions at its headquarters in Princeton, NJ, and at operating locations in Europe and Asia. Church & Dwight's adoption of Accolade will also enable the company to automate its global implementation of Stage-Gate product development process methodology. "We compared Sopheon's system to five other PLM solutions," says Paul Siracusa, executive vice president of global research and development at Church & Dwight. "Based on our requirements, we judged Accolade to be the strongest both technically and functionally -- excellent data integrity in a user-friendly environment. The fact that they could also provide a secure web-based hosting option was key to helping us surmount one of our principal implementation challenges and positions us to accelerate time-to-value."