Fortience Consulting Signs Alliance Agreement with Dassault Systèmes

Fortience Consulting Co., Ltd. (formerly KUNIE Co., Ltd., headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, represented by President Shigeki Yamaguchi, hereinafter 'Fortience'), an NTT DATA Group company, announced on June 4, 2026, that it has signed a System Integrator & Consulting Alliance Agreement (hereinafter 'this Agreement') with Dassault Systèmes K.K. (headquartered in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, represented by President Philippe Godbout, hereinafter 'Dassault Systèmes').

Through this agreement, Fortience aims to achieve productivity improvements and strengthen management to solve complex challenges in the manufacturing industry, such as demand fluctuations and stricter regulations, by promoting digital transformation using Dassault Systèmes' suite of solutions.

The initial target sectors for this initiative will be the food, beverage, consumer goods, and life sciences (pharmaceutical) industries.

Background

In recent years, the manufacturing industry has faced significant external changes, including soaring raw material prices, increased supply chain disruption risks, and the entry of new players due to technological innovations like AI and IoT. Furthermore, customer needs are diversifying, and trends are changing rapidly, putting companies at risk of losing their competitive edge if they stick to traditional product development and time-to-market processes. Additionally, the amount of information that needs to be considered and managed in product production and sales processes is increasing due to stricter regulations concerning the environment and human rights, information disclosure obligations, and enhanced management triggered by quality issues. Particularly in the food, beverage, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical sectors, stricter and more transparent quality control is required.

To address these challenges, digital transformation that seamlessly connects data and achieves both productivity improvement and enhanced risk/quality management is essential.

Therefore, Fortience has entered into this Agreement with Dassault Systèmes. Through consulting services, including the visualization of challenges, Fortience will support the introduction and establishment of optimal solutions for problem-solving.

Overview

By combining Fortience's extensive industry and business knowledge with Dassault Systèmes' product portfolio, centered around the '3DEXPERIENCE platform' that integrates people, organizations, and information, Fortience will support digital transformation in the manufacturing industry, starting with the food, beverage, consumer goods, and life sciences (pharmaceutical) sectors.

Fortience will provide end-to-end support, from visualizing current challenges and formulating transformation plans to reviewing and designing business processes, and selecting, introducing, and establishing the optimal solutions to connect data from upstream to downstream.

■ Effects of Introducing the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Product Portfolio

・Reduced time-to-market and cost optimization: Shortens lead times and reduces costs by enabling R&D simulations in a single 3D environment.

・Supply-demand optimization and enhanced resilience: Integrates demand forecasting, production, inventory, and procurement data into a single model, visualizing the entire supply chain. Optimizes supply-demand balance and responds quickly and flexibly to fluctuations and supply constraints, achieving both stable supply and efficiency.

・Knowledge sharing and improved labor productivity: Eliminates reliance on specific individuals and improves labor productivity through centralized data management across departments, process visualization, and modeling of tacit knowledge.

・Ensuring sustainable competitive advantage: By connecting data from R&D to marketing and traceability, improves decision-making speed, responsiveness to market changes, and reliability, contributing to maximizing corporate value.

Roles of Each Company

Dassault Systèmes: Provides the technological foundation, including the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Fortience: Provides support ranging from visualizing current challenges, formulating transformation plans based on industry/business knowledge and technology expertise, designing business processes, defining requirements, to introducing and establishing the optimal solutions for clients.

Future Plans

The initiative will first target the food, beverage, consumer goods, and life sciences (pharmaceutical) industries, and will then sequentially expand to other manufacturing sectors.
Fortience will continue to support its clients' digital transformation and enhance their competitiveness.

[Reference: About the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform]

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is an integrated foundation that connects people, ideas, data, and processes within a single virtual environment.

It manages R&D, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory compliance with a single data model and enables comprehensive evaluation at an early stage through simulation functions using virtual twins.

https://www.3ds.com/ja/3dexperience/ (External Link)

[About Fortience's Support in the Life Sciences Sector]

Fortience's specialized consultants, who have a deep understanding of business processes such as research, development, production, logistics, and quality assurance in the life sciences sector, as well as related regulations, support digital transformation for manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and regenerative medicine products. By providing transformation scenarios that consider both on-site practices and compliance, they maximize added value, optimize resource allocation, and strengthen risk management.

https://www.fortience.com/solutions/life-sciences/

[About Fortience's Support in the Consumer Goods Sector]

Fortience's specialized consultants, who possess extensive industry knowledge and a proven track record in the consumer goods sector, support corporate transformations for consumer goods manufacturers, including new product development processes, supply chain reform, globalization, and strengthening group management/standardizing operations. Through comprehensive consulting services covering both business and IT aspects, they enhance client value and strengthen competitiveness.

https://www.fortience.com/solutions/consumer-products/

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■ Fortience Consulting Co., Ltd.
Fortience Consulting Co., Ltd. is a business consulting firm within the NTT DATA Group. It provides consulting services to a wide range of clients, including globally operating manufacturing and distribution companies, as well as the financial, public services, and government/municipal sectors.
Professionals with high expertise and deep business understanding formulate strategies based on a future ideal state and work together with clients to achieve results.
For more information about the company, please visit < https://www.fortience.com >.