Innovation project management software (NPD)
New product development software covers the whole go-to-market process: a new product, a renovation or a launch in a new market. With beCPG, you manage projects, stages and decision gates, tasks and workflows, while tracking schedule and budget on the same platform as your product data.
Looking for food product development software? beCPG is ready to use for food and beverage, cosmetics and consumer packaged goods, with project templates you adapt without any development.
Current task and delay, project by project
Shorten
time to market for new products and renovations
Speed up and track
exchanges between Marketing, R&D, Quality and Production
Boost productivity
from brief to production start-up
From idea to customer approval
Manage the schedule and tasks
Organize each project into tasks and sub-tasks in a Gantt view, with dependencies, assignees, durations and working calendars. In planning mode, the schedule is recalculated as soon as a task is completed; in retro-planning mode, the launch date is held.
Each assignee is notified by workflow and by email, with a description of the work to be done and links to the deliverables, then reminded when a task is overdue. Wizards built into tasks help fill in product data step by step.
Because the project is managed in the PLM, your teams use formulation, the product repository and specification sheet generation directly within their tasks.
Milestone reached once its upstream tasks are complete
Projects broken down by templateProject and portfolio management
Start from project templates: private label product development, branded product, raw material onboarding, new packaging, recipe change, product discontinuation, quality action plan. Each template defines the stages, the tasks in series or in parallel, the assignees and the deliverables.
Work with a stage-gate process: idea, marketing analysis, feasibility study, industrial prototype, customer offer and production start-up, separated by decision points. Score each project against your own criteria (strategy, risk, resources, costs) and monitor the portfolio in the project overview and dashboards: projects per month, average duration per stage, overdue tasks, workload per person.
With Chef AI, the beCPG assistant, ask in natural language for your priority tasks, a schedule or a colleague’s workload. Read our article on the stages of new product development in food and cosmetics.
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What is product innovation software?
Product innovation software, or NPD (New Product Development) software, organizes the go-to-market process, from idea and brief to production start-up: projects, stages and gates, tasks, deliverables, schedule and approvals, shared by Marketing, R&D, Quality, Purchasing and Production.
Does beCPG support a stage-gate process?
Yes. Project templates define the stages of your process (idea, marketing analysis, feasibility, industrial prototype, customer offer, production start-up) and the gates where a decision is required. Tasks can run in series, in parallel or loop back to a previous stage.
How is it different from a generic project management tool?
In beCPG, the project and the product share the same data: the recipe, packaging, specification sheets and documents are created and approved within the project tasks themselves. No copying between a planning tool and a spreadsheet: the product file is ready when the project ends.
Can a project be launched from a product brief?
Yes. A brief form, made up of questions some of which depend on previous answers, launches the project. Chef AI, the beCPG assistant, can also create the product and the project from a brief, as a suggestion for you to approve.
How do you monitor the project portfolio?
The project overview shows, for each project, current and overdue tasks, progress and scores. Business intelligence dashboards analyze the portfolio: projects per month, average duration per stage, projects by family or by customer, workload per person.
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