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Food & Agro-industries

How to choose food PLM software: 10 criteria

Choosing food PLM software takes more than comparing feature lists. Several criteria matter, depending on your business: formulation, nutrition calculation, allergen management, regulatory compliance, supplier collaboration and more. How do you compare vendors and find the one that fits your organization? Here are ten criteria to review.

Philippe Quéré5 min

Formulation

Three questions to ask any PLM vendor about their AI

AI assistants are arriving in PLM software. On a demo, they look alike: you ask a question, a confident answer appears. The difference shows up later, when an auditor asks how a value was produced. Here are the three questions that surface it before you sign.

Philippe Quéré3 min

Formulation

Generative AI and PLM: speeding up product development

Generative AI built into PLM is gradually changing new product development. Yet a large share of the time still goes into repetitive tasks: entering supplier data, writing product sheets, translating, correcting and proofreading content. The goal is not to replace the expertise of formulators, product managers or regulatory teams. It is to let them focus on what actually creates value.

Pamela Abboud3 min

Cosmetics & HPC

What does managing your formulas in Excel really cost you?

The spreadsheet cost nothing to install, and that is exactly what makes its cost so hard to see. It appears on no budget line: it is spread across your formulators’ hours, the checks made before every send, and the rework that follows an error. Before comparing anything to anything, you have to put a figure on it. Here is how to do that with your own numbers.

Philippe Quéré4 min

Formulation

Food supplements: the daily dose is what counts, not the 100 g

A food supplement is not declared like a food. Nobody eats 100 g of capsules: what counts is the recommended daily portion, and the share of the nutrient reference value it delivers. A per-100 g nutrition table answers neither question — and yet it is where you have to start to reach the label.

Matthieu3 min

Cosmetics & HPC

Improving teamwork with collaborative sites

Product development involves multiple departments: R&D, quality, purchasing, production, marketing, and more. Each team needs easy access to information and must be able to track changes. To meet these needs,…

Pamela Abboud4 min

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