Food and beverage, cosmetic and retail industries
The cosmetics industry is facing increasing regulations as well as needing to be in control of the innovational race. They are facing strong competition on top of needing to be transparent and reliable to their consumers. The Lascom CPG PLM solution is ideal to help keep this industries businesses organised, streamlined, and transparent.
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Managing Health alerts, customer complaints or any other problem is necessary for consumer health as well as the image of the company represented by the product. Lascom’s complaint management module is ideal for an automated response to these problems as well as for making sure that the cause of the problem doesn’t happen again as well.
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Today’s society is characterized by competition, regulation, and demands. With the ever changing economy and internationalization, the pressure on prices continues to increase and this is no different for the food industry.
The Agro-Food companies face several challenges:
•A complex network of collaborators and suppliers
•Managing a large Amount of complex data from import and export to prices and marketing
•Controlling the risks of an ever accelerating product development in order to conform to regulations across countries and maintain trace ability
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A PLM is an ideal tool to manage, analyze, and control your projects. It can provide you with a global view in order to relate it to tasks, decisions, and processes and in the end will help you drive and prioritize daily tasks.
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Due to many proposals in the food industry for software, it is easy to lose user friendliness and compatibility. It is important when implementing a new software to find the right solution for your company and the proposal’s development in order to improve profitability, accelerate projects, and boost capacity for innovation.
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Food safety is one of the most significant issues for consumers in developed countries. Producers, manufacturers or retailers must be able to provide accurate and verified document regarding food sourcing, material flow and traceability. Producers require traceable ingredients and a strong environmental control throughout the manufacturing process.
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Traceability is complex and challenging. Everyday, product recalls occur due to quality and sanitary issues.
A product recall is damaging for a company as well regarding its brand image as consumers' confidence in its products. Product recalls are also expensive operations; considering both direct impacted losses and future indirect losses. When a sanitary alert or quality default has been identified, short term actions are crucial. Knowledge of the recalled products is very important. Being aware of the products origins, the batch number, the stock location, and the distribution channel used are key elements when a recall appears. A clear accurate and up to date traceability process is a way to reduce quality problems and better manage a recall.
This graphic shows the risks and impacts companies are most afraid of when recalls occur:
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48% of food and beverage manufacturers noted that ensuring compliance with current and future regulations is their top pressure.
As, mandates such as the Food Safety Modernization Act and GS1 standards are constantly evolving and changing, it makes difficult for businesses to enforce compliance and avoid fines.
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RFI, LLC, U.S developer of natural innovative ingredients, selects Lascom to better forecast new product costs while innovating and easing certification processes
Lascom today announced that its CPG Solution has been selected by field-to-formula driven, natural products company, RFI, LLC to facilitate its demanding certification process and assist R&D teams in new product development.
San Diego, September 22, 2015 Lascom works with local and global companies to help them to better manage new product development (NPD), product specifications consistency and product lifecycle (PLM).
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F&B manufacturers are under a lot of pressure from consumers, retailers, suppliers and regulators.
From consumers
Consumers want more variety, as well as healthier and better tasting foods, and they want these higher-value products for the same price.
Demand for increasingly healthy diets is also driving consumers to pay more attention to food labels. Almost 70% of consumers said they would choose a healthier option in a supermarket, especially if it was clearly labeled as such.
