Implementing a PLM is first a business project: your teams must find their products, recipes, specifications and documents in the software, with their own rules, before they rely on it every day.
beCPG is both the publisher and the implementer of its PLM. The consultants who run your workshops know the food and cosmetics industries, and the same team supports you after go-live.
Our method is designed to deliver value early, keep the scope under control and make your teams autonomous.
months to go-live in most projects
new projects started every year
food and cosmetics customers
years of PLM projects in food and cosmetics
The project is split into batches. Each batch goes through the definition of its content, functional workshops, configuration, delivery on your test environment and your approval: the equivalent of an agile sprint, anchored on a business scope.
We can also follow your own project methodology.
Kick-off meeting, review of your requirements and of our proposal, discovery of your current tools and of the systems involved. Deliverables: a detailed project plan and a test platform ready to use.
Workshops, written specifications when the batch requires it, configuration and developments with unit tests, delivery on the test platform. You approve each batch before the next one relies on it.
Complete functional tests on the test platform, fixes delivered and tested again until acceptance, then production launch.
Three months in production conditions after acceptance, with updated project documentation. Maintenance then takes over.
From the first workshop, we work on 3 to 5 of your reference products, with their raw materials, packaging and documents:
Workshops are held in your offices, usually two to three days a month, with remote sessions in between, in English or in French.
Adapted to your priorities, a project usually follows this order:
Product repository, document management, formulation (nutrition, allergens, ingredients, costs, claims, scores), product specifications and data import.
Project management and workflows, supplier portal, dashboards and ERP interface.
GS1 and retailer catalogs, website and PIM, quality management.
For a group, the effort depends on the number of processes and specifications to harmonize, not on the number of sites or products.
The target configuration is agreed once and applies everywhere: one data model, one set of product templates, labeling rules and specification documents. Each site, brand or country sees its own products, suppliers and documents through permissions, not through a configuration of its own.
Adding a site is an onboarding exercise (users, permissions, data), not a new project. The roll-out can follow the pattern that suits you:
Data can be loaded in one migration or site by site, independently of the functional go-live. Mass operations are designed for large portfolios: one of our customers manages 60,000 formulas and 30,000 raw materials in beCPG.
More than 15 years of PLM projects point to the same factors, which we manage with you:
beCPG runs its projects directly, without subcontracting. When you want a local partner alongside us, we work with system integrators such as CGI, T-Systems and Cronoplus, or with the integrator of your choice.
beCPG is open source: its code is accessible, and your data can be exported at any time.
Most beCPG projects go live in 3 to 12 months, depending on the scope, the number of interfaces and the availability of your teams. A first batch (repository, formulation, specifications) can be in production within a few months, before projects, supplier portal and interfaces. For a small team starting with the standard configuration, setting up the SaaS environment takes about an hour of work (one command creates it, one file loads the initial data and another one creates the user accounts), and it is usually ready within a few days of your order.
Yes. The configuration is built once for the whole group, then rolled out all at once, by range, by group of sites or by country. Data can be migrated in one go or site by site.
beCPG provides import templates and tools, and loads the data with you. Your teams own the content and its cleansing; the import plan is agreed at the start of the project.
Yes. Around 90% of the settings (lists, forms, reports, project templates, labeling rules) are available to your administrators, who are trained during the project.
Yes. You can start a 30-day free trial, or ask for a demo on your own products.
Another question about your products, your markets or your systems? A PLM expert answers you, with a demo on your own products.
Tell us about your products, sites and systems: we will propose a scope and a timeline.
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