Blog articles relative to beCPG's product portfolio
A drink sold in six countries now carries six different marks: a letter here, stars there, traffic lights elsewhere, black octagons further on. None is calculated the same way, and none can be derived from another. The question is no longer which one is right, but how to keep them all current on the same product record.
Pamela Abboud3 min
Every new ingredient arrives with its specification: a six-page PDF, sent by email, filed in a shared folder. Everything your product repository needs is in there — shelf life, thresholds, allergen declaration, site certificates. None of it is usable as it stands. Between the document you receive and the data you record, there is always someone reading, searching and retyping.
Philippe Quéré4 min
The recipe changes in R&D, the label follows, quality signs it off. Three weeks later, the page for that same product on the retailer’s website still shows the old allergen list — and that is the one shoppers read. The discrepancy appears on none of your screens. It appears only on theirs.
Philippe Quéré4 min
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
With beCPG, control your graphic chain, with an adapted tool which optimizes the life cycle of your products and fluidifies the exchanges between collaborators.
Philippe Quéré3 min
The GDSN (Global Data Synchronization Network) is a set of certified and interconnected data sources. These data sources are populated and used by all actors of the production and distribution…
Théo Harsant3 min
Ethylene oxide contamination marked 2021 with an unprecedented food safety crisis. Ethylene oxide is a carcinogenic and mutagenic pesticide (identified as CMR) used for its action against micro-organisms (bacteria, fungi,…
Elodie Rogie2 min
Whether you work in a cosmetics SME or for a large food group, you necessarily have good reasons to strengthen your Information System around a PLM solution. Here are 10…
Philippe Quéré5 min
Updated October 2026. Developing a food or cosmetic product follows the same logic in most companies: a sequence of stages, separated by gates where someone decides whether the project continues….
Philippe Quéré3 min
Updated October 2026. A product can be complete for your production plant and incomplete for a retailer, a GS1 data pool or your website. Data quality is not a general…
Philippe Quéré4 min
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