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Creating and Updating Specs Requires Input Across the Organization and from Suppliers
Common pitfalls when managing raw material and finished goods specifications:
- Many manufacturers, brand owners, and retailers don't fully utilize suppliers as collaboration partners when creating and updating specifications, resulting in prolonged negotiations over attributes and tolerances.
- Communicating with suppliers and co-manufacturers about specification updates is often a manual and time-consuming process.
- Maintaining detailed and current raw material and finished goods specifications is cumbersome, especially when version control, authorization, and audit trails are needed.
- Stakeholders exchange information through email and voicemail, making it nearly impossible to track status, agreements, or supporting documentation.
- Ensuring suppliers and stakeholders have the latest version of specifications is difficult with static tools like shared drives and spreadsheets that lack versioning mechanisms.
- Siloed data across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Purchasing departments delays specification creation and updates and slows down new product development and reformulation.
Networked Specification Management Can Fix It
With TraceGains Specification Management, teams create, publish, and update raw material, and finished goods specifications on a single networked platform. Don't worry about tracking down suppliers, items, or ingredients since most food, beverage, and supplements suppliers have loaded item and raw material documents and information on TraceGains Network. We made it easy.
Log in to Specification Management and get instant access to all that data to speed up your specification process. Networked means no more reaching out to suppliers to request information or documents, you've already got what you need, and we help automate the rest.
With TraceGains, you can digitize everything from raw material to packaging to finished goods specifications. Then use the data to power configurable dashboards and reports to determine compliance against label claims, nutrition targets, thresholds like Prop 65, and country of origin. Automated workflows and alerts for internal and external stakeholder updates, approvals, and requests streamline document and information exchange. Version control ensures up-to-date specifications are used, reducing out-of-spec inventory, rejected shipments, Corrective Action Requests (CARs), and costly rework due to non-compliant materials entering production. Companies that manage master specification data in ERP or PLM systems can pass specifications through TraceGains to automate supplier collaboration through approval. Or you can get a world-class specification management system by handling it all in TraceGains for less cost and complexity.
SINGLE
PLATFORM
Centralizes specification management and version control within a single platform
BUILD
SPECIFICATIONS
Easily create, publish, and update raw material, and finished goods specifications
RESPOND
TO MARKET
Rapidly respond to new consumer preferences, market demands, and seasonal availability
WORKFLOWS
AND ALERTS
Set workflows and alerts triggered by user actions like reviews, approvals, status updates, and requests to automate collaboration
SUPPLIER
CO-AUTHORING
Select suppliers to co-author, edit, review, attach documents, negotiate attributes, and approve or decline shared specs
NETWORK
CONNECTED
Tap into a network of more than two million supplier-provided documents to accelerate specification creation
Create, update, and publish raw material and finished goods specifications on a single networked platform.
"With TraceGains, our R&D teams are going to be a lot more involved with specifications going forward. Now, they can create formulations and build spec sheets, for both raw materials and finished products in one system."
- Tom Dubinski, Vice President of Quality Systems
