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Food and Beverage Product Development and Compliance
Improve go to market and expand your brand's portfolio with product lifecycle management (PLM) and regulatory compliance solutions for food and beverage brands. Trace One covers the entire food product development lifecycle, from idea to label.
MARKET COMPLEXITY
Food & Beverage Industry Challenges
F&B manufacturers and private label retailers face a multitude of challenges that make bringing innovative products to market a complex and dynamic process:
• Supply chain complexity
• Consumer preference diversity (nutrition, allergens, sustainability)
• Regulatory stringency
• Increasing competition
When viewed across the entire supply chain, these challenges can manifest as:
• Data fragmentation
• Labeling and artwork compliance
• Product recalls
• Formulation inefficiencies
F&B experts
Industry-tailored Solutions for Food and Beverage Product Development
Trace One PLM solutions for the food and beverage industry and Trace One Regulatory Compliance provide powerful and comprehensive solutions for the entire product lifecycle.
• Manage your whole product lifecycle with specialized PLM for the food and beverage industry.
• Stay updated on changing food and beverage regulations in order to be proactive, not reactive
• Leverage 30+ years of experience building PLM and compliance solutions for the F&B industry
• Reduce the effort of managing suppliers and vendors.
• Accelerate time to market to drive greater profits.
Explore Trace One PLM solutions
Core features
Streamline workflows and processes
Automate your product development and compliance needs
Specification Management
Specification management provides a centralized, structured framework to define and maintain all product-related data, including ingredients, packaging, and regulatory attributes. It ensures consistency across departments and suppliers, reducing errors and delays during product development and audits.
Formula and Recipe Management
Our web-based formulation tool accelerates the development of recipes and packaging by enabling rapid iteration, cost evaluation, and version control. It ensures every formulation aligns with nutritional, quality, and regulatory requirements, streamlining the journey from concept to shelf.
Label Data & Artwork Management
Trace One's labeling automation tools generate market-compliant label content based on recipe and specification data, ensuring each product meets country-specific regulations. With built-in artwork proofing and revision tracking, teams can collaborate on packaging design while maintaining legal and branding integrity.
Supplier Collaboration Portal
Our supplier portals enable direct, secure collaboration with ingredient and packaging partners throughout the product life cycle. Suppliers can submit certifications, update specifications, and respond to quality requirements in real time, accelerating approval cycles and reducing manual errors.
Revision Control and Change Management
Every update to recipes, specifications, and artwork is tracked with complete version histories and automated workflows for approvals. Granular user permissions and audit trails ensure accountability and provide traceability during compliance reviews or product recalls.
Ingredient Management
Users can easily search and compare ingredients based on nutritional content, allergen profiles, sustainability data, or regional restrictions. The system allows connecting vendors and suppliers to ingredient materials and specifications.
Life Cycle and Project Management Workflows
Life cycle workflows automate product development steps from ideation through discontinuation, with clear status indicators and cross-functional visibility. Integrated with Product Portfolio Management, these workflows help align innovation strategy with execution by tracking milestones, risks, and task progress.
Compliance Automation & Traceability
Compliance checks are built into every stage of development, comparing product data against harmonized regulatory libraries. End-to-end traceability links formulations, suppliers, and labeling to ensure full visibility across the value chain and simplify audit preparation and field actions.
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Specific to the Food & Beverage Industry
Trace One PLM for food and beverage brands
Trace One's PLM platform a comprehensive, end-to-end, enterprise-level software solution that supports all critical aspects of New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI). Trace One PLM gives manufacturers, grocery retailers, and private label brands a SSOT view to control product data across the lifecycle in order to expedite products to market and build customer loyalty.
Trace One Regulatory Compliance: food & beverage regulatory compliance software
Run quick compliance checks, receive email alerts with aggregated food regulation news tailored to your specific needs, and receive early notification of changes that affect product formulation.
Cross-functional collaboration
Trace One PLM helps you streamline processes for effective collaboration across all your teams, from procurement to marketing.
Comprehensive visibility
Increase visibility into product details to facilitate effective knowledge transfer between members of your organization.
Templatized and standardized
Use pre-configured templates to manage ingredients, packaging, finished products, and regulatory compliance.