The PLM

The PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service and disposal of manufactured products. PLM integrates people, data, processes and business systems and provides a product information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise.

beCPG offers a variety of features to manage the lifecycle of products:

• A repository managing finished products, raw materials, packaging, marketing, technical and regulatory data
• The formulation and design of recipes, declaration of allergens, ingredients, nutritional values, costs and claims
• The creation of reports per product
• Project management and workflows to ease collaboration during the creation of new products
• A business intelligence module (BI) to get new indicators
• The management of customer complaints, non-conformities and quality controls
• Exchange interfaces with other software such as ERP

beCPG is also customizable to take into account the constraints of each company and provides new benefits. For example:

• Simplify the task of the people contributing to product development
• Get quick and easy access to data
• Facilitate collaboration between departments
• Gain efficiency by automating repetitive tasks, reduce the time and costs associated with the creation of a new product and reduce the time needed to update regulatory information
• Keep a better history of the evolution of products

Benefits for the food industry

beCPG has been specially designed and developed to meet the needs of the food industry in terms of PLM. The strengths of beCPG are:

• A strong and new PLM solution built on years of feedback from the food industry
• Ready-to-use software for the food industry
• Modern but robust, and based on open source technologies
• Ergonomic web 2.0 interface
• Technical expertise