The Aras Innovator implementation at Imperial Brands was undertaken with one clear objective: a complete end-to-end digitalization of the core central manufacturing processes. At Imperial Brands, we have successfully achieved this objective and implemented new integrated end-to-end processes and ways of working into Aras Innovator, which encompasses; total Brand Hierarchy management, Market Initiative creation, Project Coordination, Print Management, Bill of Material creation and maintenance, Material creation and management, Bill of Material visualization, Compliance assessment, regulatory reporting processes, and integration into satellite systems which depend on highly accurate data from across the Product Lifecycle. The presentation will provide insights into how we created an integrated end-to-end process within Aras Innovator, cumulating in a successful big bang Go Live for over 25 factories without disrupting manufacturing operations. The key success criteria will be outlined, and it will be explained how these criteria were achieved utilizing the flexibility and customizability of the Aras platform, as well as honest reflections on what we as a program team could have done better and what we now focus on as we embark in the next steps of our PLM journey.

The presentation will show Aras Innovator in a different light, confirming and asserting that the application can also be used in the application of the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FCMG) industry. The presentation will give examples of how together with our solution partner, Tata Consulting Services, we have built functions and tools to service our business now and ensure that we remain ready for Imperial Brands' global digitalization agenda in the coming years. The presentation will also show and demonstrate the scale of the end-to-end digitalization we implemented, how processes, workflows, and data elements are linked together, what benefits we now see from having a complete end-to-end implementation, and some of the challenges which we now experience after this integration.

Suppose your company is about to embark on its end-to-end digitalization PLM journey. In that case, this presentation will provide honest and reflective views on how Imperial Brands delivered our end-to-end process digitalization. The presentation will give you a rounded overview of how we at Imperial Brands have utilized Aras Innovator to manage now our entire end-to-end product lifecycle, what challenges we faced and how we overcame them, and how we have leveraged the high flexibility of Aras and blended a mix of configuration and customization to ensure that the application meets business needs. The session will give you a positive view of our achievements and honest and reflective thoughts on our mistakes or times when we tried to overachieve in a highly complex program. Finally, the session will give you insight into what we can do with Aras Innovator to grow the application's capabilities further and ensure that the application continues to support our business and people through enhanced automation and digitalization.