English Food & Beverage Personal Care & Cosmetics Industrial Manufacturing References Resources About us Demo Food & Beverage Software Market volume of US$379 bn by 2025 New trends: fresh local foods, vegan, etc. Failure rate between 70% and 80% Food & Beverage industry challenges As a Food and Beverage manufacturer, in addition to fierce competition, you face many challenges and constraints including regulations, labeling, non-compliance management, supplier relationship management, etc. Meeting these challenges plays a major role in the success of your products. It is therefore crucial to use appropriate solutions to ensure that you are in the successful 20-30%. New product development is essential to stay ahead of the competition, and you constantly need to innovate and speed up time-to-market, but you find that information is scattered all around your company. Properly managing communication and collaboration with your suppliers, and within your organization, is difficult owing to the large amount of information and data which is often disjointed or even missing entirely. Aptean PLM Lascom Edition – Features of Our Food and Beverage Software Ease your new product development Organize your product development with workflows, stage-gate management, automated notifications, Gantt chart visualization, milestones, and reporting. Maintain a complete overview of your activities and make informed decisions assisted by features such as reports, timeline (i.e.: scheduling) and dashboards. Improve how you work with your suppliers: a secure portal provides centralized access and control of all relevant information, such as supplier data and documents, raw materials and packaging specifications, etc. Speed up your R&D processes and ensure compliance Quickly develop recipes with features including recipe yield and cost calculation, lists of ingredients and allergens, nutrition calculation, prototype management, and recipes/prototypes comparison. Comply with country-specific regulations on both recipe formulation and regulatory document management using features such as ingredient screening, to simplify product formulation and ensure the safety of your products. Automatically generate nutritional fact panels: features specifically designed for label generation and management. Create FDA-USDA, European Regulation 1169/2011 compliant labels, ingredient statements, and a list of allergens. Create and manage your packaging specifications. You work from a specific marketing brief for the artwork to ensure that all requirements have been considered. Additional features, such as artwork proofing and comparison, optimize your entire graphics production process. Ensure the quality of products all along with their life cycles Analyze the impacts a change would have on your products: Consider and analyze the impact of any potential change (related to the formulation, regulation, packaging, costs, and so on) while providing complete traceability. Report, centralize, track and resolve customer complaints as soon as they arise. Add comments, digital photos, and any documents linked to incidents. Receive the right information at the right time thanks to automated workflows. Offer a suitable solution to customers, ultimately increasing their satisfaction. Trace and ensure the quality of all products throughout their life cycles, from suppliers to disposal: report, qualify, manage, and put an end to any non-conforming aspects before, during, or after production. This allows you to consolidate all the information necessary to analyze causes and plan remedial actions. Aptean Food and Beverage PLM Lascom Edition in video! Feedback Anne “With Lascom from Aptean, we were able to make our data more reliable and to work with traceable validation processes” Brian “We wanted something that truly helps with project management, is intuitive for the users, web-based and can scale up with us.” Sophie “The software helps us save tremendous amounts of time and streamline specific processes of our design chain.” Discover our 3 PLM offers tailored for Food and Beverages companies Know more Your food and beverage challenges, our PLM features Project and Product Portfolio Management Properly understand and track your activities. Learn more New product development Foster product innovation, reduce time to market and achieve successful execution of the product. Learn more Food and Beverage formulation The formulation step is essential, and it determines a products’ success or failure. Learn more Packaging management Ensure your packaging’s aesthetic aspect and its compliance with regulations that are in force. Learn more Food and Beverage Labels Comply with strict regulations and attract your customers. Learn more Food and Beverage Regulatory Compliance Follow current regulations and anticipate new ones. Learn more Supplier Relationship Management Digitalize information and documents, and automate workflows and processes; hence improving the collaboration with your suppliers Learn more RFQ & RFP Management Request, check and analyze a large amount of information and data to make the best decisions. Learn more Non-conformity Management Act fast to quickly solve non-conformities. 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