New Product Development at a Food Manufacturer
A food manufacturer with 200 employees (20-person R&D team) / 200 employees (R&D team: 20)
“New food product development can take over a year from concept to store shelves. Managing long-term cross-department processes in Ganty and using AI analysis to detect bottlenecks early has dramatically shortened our development lead time.”
Results
Challenge
This food manufacturer's new product development involved a long process—concept, prototyping, package design, production line adjustment, and sales launch—coordinated across four departments: product planning, R&D, manufacturing, and marketing. Each department managed schedules independently, causing time lags before upstream delays reached downstream teams, repeatedly pushing back overall development timelines.
Why Ganty
The ability to manage cross-department long-term projects in a single Gantt chart with real-time dependency updates was the deciding factor. The AI schedule analysis feature for proactively detecting bottleneck processes was also deemed highly effective for long-term project management.
How They Use It
- Centralized management of all phases: concept, prototyping, packaging, manufacturing, and sales
- Set milestones at department handoff points
- Regular critical path and bottleneck checks using AI analysis
- Parallel management of multiple new products with optimized resource allocation
Results
After adopting Ganty, new product development lead time was reduced by 25%. Cross-department rework dropped by 60%, and improved efficiency increased annual new product releases by 1.5x. Progress reporting to executives became instantly clear via Gantt charts, also speeding up decision-making.