Get High-Quality, Safe and Sustainable Products to Market Faster

Ensure that products consistently comply with brand identity and values with Centric PLM as a centralized hub for product and packaging information.

Monitor designs and artwork in development, screen for prohibited ingredients and track metrics and sourcing data related to sustainability and human rights. Enhance brand value and expand market share by creating a consistent, reliable and transparent product offering.

Bring together project management and product development in one digital environment to manage tasks, workflows and obstacles efficiently, eliminating error-prone and time-consuming spreadsheets. Industry-specific features give the ability to manage new product innovations and changes to existing products already within Centric PLM. Quickly develop and iterate on popular base products to capitalize on emerging food and beverage trends.

Reconnect cross-functional teams that have been separated by data silos, streamline processes, enabling critical internal changes and improve speed to market as a result. Pull in data from multiple systems and collaborate with internal team members along the evolution of the product as well external parties such as artwork companies, laboratories, suppliers and others.

Gain complete transparency throughout each stage of product development and manufacturing, giving R&D teams the ability to track all product-related data in real time to ensure accuracy. Automatically record changes made over time so users have a historic log of every action while leveraging Centric’s formulation management solutions to modify existing formulations for new product introductions.

Empower R&D teams to develop best practices for streamlined ingredient and specifications management. Access all formulation data per product, making it quick and easy to review nutritional values, raw materials specifications, product claims, allergens and costs of goods sold and easily integrate with USDA, SR Legacy and Ciqual databases. In the event of a product recall, R&D teams can easily pinpoint affected products, pull them from store shelves, and halt manufacturing.

Unite all sourcing and procurement stakeholders on a single platform, creating a centralized hub of sourcing data that is updated in real time for every product. This removes the risk of doubled efforts and eliminates the complexity of multiple spreadsheets. Drive close collaboration and efficient communication between suppliers and stakeholders, resulting in a streamlined approach to product and packaging development and procurement.

Run ‘what-if’ sourcing scenarios and assess the impact of different sourcing decisions on formulation and the ability to manufacture a product in a specific location. Manage and automatically update all data related to vendors, audits and certification, raw ingredients, packaging components and materials, prices and more.

Gain full visibility into all product-related data, to easily track compliance information and make necessary changes to improve product quality and maintain regulatory standards. Centric PLM comes equipped with built-in process management workflows and audit modules to streamline quality and compliance audits and manage audit certifications from third parties.

Ensure fast reactions to recalls and quickly identify affected products when raw materials, ingredients and components are implicated in a food safety issue. Assess risks when partnering with vendors and manage all audit documentation like HACCP and certifications related to global standards such as GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) and local standards including SQF (USA), BRC (UK), IFS (EU) and others.

Ensure products are safe and protected for maximum shelf life with a simplified, cost-efficient approach to package and label development. Pull data from artwork templates to generate placeholders for attributes, like ingredient listings, weight, manufacturing data, images and country of origin, then certify compliance with local guidelines by conforming labels to specific regional markets.

Centric’s artwork proofing tools can be used to add annotations, check artwork for regulatory and brand compliance, and iterate with design agencies until artwork is complete and approved by marketing and regulatory teams. Integrations with popular 2D and 3D packaging and artwork management tools enable all stakeholders to work together seamlessly on one digital interface.

Centric PLM acts as a central repository for up-to-date product data that can push and pull data from many other systems. Once product data is complete, it must be synchronized usually via GS1 Standards and the GDSN datapool. Data eventually ends up integrated into supply chain software, ERP systems, manufacturing execution systems. Centric’s integration technologies are crucial in this process.