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Teams Struggle to Create, Manage, and Modify Formulas and Recipes
Food, beverage, and dietary supplements companies have unique challenges:
- With increasing consumer-driven product criteria and compliance thresholds to manage, product innovation is more complicated.
- The information required to create and manage formulas and recipes sits in silos, spanning ERP and PLM systems, and static tools like shared drives and spreadsheets, with as much as 75% of it living with suppliers.
- Hard copy lab notebooks used in the bench process are in files, and teams can't see all recipe variations and comparison data at once to quickly gain insight and drive better decisions.
- PLM software can be rigid and requires manual formula and recipe iteration, slowing down the process for teams to meet the desired product criteria for allergens, nutrition, price, and claims.
- Companies use online research, emails, and phone calls to find raw materials and ingredients, and suppliers have backlogs and are slow to respond, further delaying the product development process.
Networked Formula Management Can Fix It
TraceGains Formula Management allows teams to create and manage formulas and recipes while collaborating across departments and with suppliers or co-manufacturers. Network connectivity gives teams instant access to millions of supplier-provided documents and information. Save time and money with rapid digital prototyping using real ingredient and supplier data to achieve ideal product criteria faster.
Reduce the effort to create new or enhance existing formulas with all changes tracked and instantly available to everyone on the team, as soon as a new version is made, or whenever a formula is modified. A centralized location provides a unified view of all current, variant, and past product formula and recipe information, documentation, and processes across your business and throughout your supply chain—no matter how dispersed or complex.
Companies that manage master formula and recipe data in an existing ERP or PLM system can pass information back and forth from TraceGains for complete supply chain visibility. While other companies may choose to manage product development with TraceGains without the cost and complexity of a full-blown PLM system.
FORMULA
MANAGEMENT
Create, modify, review, edit, and update formulas and recipes, while collaborating with suppliers and co-mans across a networked platform
SIMPLIFIED
RESEARCH
Achieve more informed, cost-effective ingredient and material research choices, and significantly reduce product development timelines
DIGITAL
VARIATIONS
Digitally model ingredient and raw material variations to meet cost, nutrition, allergen, and claims targets before physical trial testing
FASTER TIME
TO MARKET
Accelerate formula and recipe development with faster ingredient research and collaborative formula development
UNIFIED
PRODUCT VIEW
Gain a unified view of products, data, and processes across the business and throughout the supply chain, no matter how complex or dispersed
SINGLE
REPOSITORY
A single repository centralizes and organizes all past and present recipes and formulas with comprehensive roll-back capabilities
Keeping up with shifting demands requires efficiency and speed at every stage of formula creation and management.
“TraceGains unifies our new product development process across multiple departments. With a single location where teams can create and manage formulations and specs, we now have the visibility into the lifecycle of our products that we need to accelerate innovation and maintain our commitment to quality.”
– Tom Dubinski, VP Quality Systems, ANS
