Product repository for the food and cosmetics industries
The beCPG product repository manages finished products, semi-finished products, raw materials, packaging and their documents in one place. It brings together the technical data needed for specification sheets and regulatory affairs, as well as the product information shared with customers, on websites and in electronic catalogues.
Ready to use for food and beverage and cosmetics, beCPG adapts to your data without any development.
Every product has a state: simulation or valid
Enter
Products, raw materials and packaging in forms designed for each team.
Share
A single, up-to-date source of product data.
Find
Products and documents in seconds.
Track
Product changes, versions and their impact.
A food safety alert: affected products found and withdrawn
Product data management
The product repository collects and maintains product information during development and throughout the product’s life.
- Share a single database across Marketing, R&D, Quality, Production, Sales and Supply Chain
- Manage composition, packaging, processes, ingredients and their origins, nutrition, allergens, costs, microbiological, physico-chemical and organoleptic data, labelling and claims
- Track data completeness with a score and the list of missing properties for each use (customer, GDSN, website, ERP)
- Automatic numbering and business rules to code products
- Manage the bill of materials with effective dates, variants and alternatives
- Keep costs and regulatory data up to date with formulation
- States, approval workflow and version management, with comparison of versions and products
- Where-used analysis and change orders to measure and apply a change
- Bulk editing, saved searches and export to Excel
- Publish product data to GS1 GDSN electronic catalogues, websites and your ERP
All the product’s data, list by list
Documents to provide and to check, material by material
Signature once the whole document has been readDocument management
Receive, track, manage and archive all types of documents, linked to products and projects or filed in folders.
- Specifications, certificates, supplier documents, test results, contracts
- Images and videos (digital asset management), resized automatically
- Artwork management: annotations, version comparison, review workflow with checklists and approval
- Version management with a change history: who, what and why
- Full-text search in document content
- Online preview and sharing with external partners, such as customers and printers
- Editing in Microsoft Office and Google Docs
- E-signature, internally or with suppliers
AI suggests, your teams approve
The beCPG AI module boosts your teams’ productivity and the quality of your data. Nothing is saved without your approval.
- Chef AI, a conversational assistant that searches, compares and creates products in natural language
- Data suggestions: names, descriptions, families, marketing and organoleptic data
- Data extraction from supplier specification sheets in PDF format
- Artwork compliance: check that the print proof matches the product data
- Translations, spell-checking and product image suggestions
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What is a product repository?
It is the single source of product data: finished and semi-finished products, raw materials, packaging, suppliers, customers and their documents. Every team works on the same approved data, with versions, states and change history.
What is the difference between PDM, PIM and PLM?
PDM (Product Data Management) formalises a product’s technical definition; PIM (Product Information Management) prepares the information published to customers, on websites and in electronic catalogues. beCPG PLM covers both on the same data, and adds formulation, specification sheets and development projects.
Can beCPG publish product data to GS1 catalogues and websites?
Yes. beCPG manages GS1 GDSN product data and can feed electronic catalogues such as Equadis, Atrify, Validoo or Synkka, as well as e-commerce sites and ERPs through the REST API and connectors.
How are product changes controlled?
Each product has a state (simulation, to validate, valid, stopped, archived) and a version history you can compare. Where-used analysis shows every product that uses a component; change orders simulate and then apply a change, with an approval step.
Can forms and fields be customised?
Yes. New fields and data lists are added without development, and forms are designed in a dedicated editor. Permissions can be set on sites, content, actions and fields.
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