Powering Product Lifecycle Management
2024 has been a landmark year for Trace One as we continue to drive business growth across the food and beverage, cosmetics and personal care, and specialty chemical industries with solutions that expedite product development, simplify regulatory compliance, enhance innovation, and streamline operations. From food and beverage giants to chemical manufacturers, our clients achieve transformative results by addressing their biggest challenges with our state-of-the-art solutions. Here’s how Trace One has helped its customers achieve measurable success.
AB Mauri: Transforming Product Development Processes
AB Mauri aimed to implement a next-generation, end-to-end PLM system that could seamlessly integrate with its ERP system. Leveraging Trace One Devex PLM and the Open Connector module for Infor ERP, the company established a unified platform to manage product and packaging data, stage-gate processes, and change requests. Trace One’s PLM solution replaced time-consuming manual workflows with a fully integrated system, enabling AB Mauri to scale product development while reducing time-to-market for bakery innovations.
Solina: Harmonizing Business Processes Across Subsidiaries
Solina sought to replace outdated PLM systems, integrate legacy IT environments, and standardize processes across global subsidiaries, including newly acquired companies.
The project scope includes the following Trace One Devex PLM core functionalities:
Solina’s project goals include accelerated innovation, improved supply chain agility, and seamless IT integration. Implementing Trace One Devex PLM will enable Solina to establish a single source of truth PLM system for global operations, harmonize business workflows, and ensure a gradual deployment of the solution across multiple sites, setting a new standard for operational efficiency.
Bauli: Digitalizing Product Development for Seamless Growth
Bauli sought to transform product development using a stage-gate approach and a comprehensive PLM system. By implementing Trace One Devex PLM including core features like product portfolio management, formulation and recipe management, product data management, and regulatory compliance, it digitalized workflows and created a single source of truth for master data. Departments like R&D, regulatory, and quality now benefit from standardized processes, improved product safety, and integration with IT systems. The company is excited about Trace One’s F&B industry expertise and the solution’s potential to streamline acquisitions and enhance scalability.
Europastry: Driving Global Digital Transformation
Europastry aimed to harmonize global business processes across marketing, R&D, quality, procurement, and industrialization teams. It adopted Trace One Devex PLM to create a single source of truth PLM system integrated directly with Oracle-JD ERP and other legacy systems. The solution streamlined NPD workflows, improved data quality, and supported seamless integration of new brand acquisitions. Europastry expects significant ROI within a year following phase one of implementation.
Streamlining Data Management for a Global Leader in Enzyme Production
A global leader in enzyme production sought to unify specifications, recipes, and regulatory data across its international teams. By adopting Trace One Devex PLM, the company created a single source of truth to manage product development and regulatory compliance. This digital transformation streamlined workflows, improved collaboration between teams across Japan, the UK, and the US, and eliminated inefficiencies from manual systems, enabling the company to scale operations more effectively on a global scale.
Accelerating New Product Launches for a Multinational Confectionery Manufacturer
A renowned confectionery manufacturer needed a solution to streamline new product launches and integrate recipe and packaging approval workflows with compliance and production requirements. By implementing Trace One's Devex Innovation Process Management Suite, integrated with global master data, the company achieved faster time-to-market, improved compliance management, and enhanced workflow efficiency. The PLM system now supports over 400 annual projects worldwide, resolving workflow delays, supporting local adaptations while maintaining global standards, and fostering innovation across multiple production sites.
Driving Innovation for a Leading Food Manufacturer
A major food manufacturer transitioned from a formula-refining model to a more innovation-driven approach, requiring a robust system to replace manual processes. By adopting Trace One Devex PLM, the company modernized its regulatory workflows and leveraged its SAP S/4 Hana ERP deployment. Trace One’s PLM system supported the company’s evolving needs, accelerating time-to-market, and streamlining complex processes for greater efficiency and enhanced innovation in product development.
Enhancing Product Innovation for a Market-Leading Food Brand
A market-leading food brand aimed to accelerate product innovation, build digital assets, and establish a knowledge-sharing platform. By leveraging Trace One Devex PLM, the company is streamlining its innovation process, centralizing recipe management, and improving document management efficiency. The PLM solution is projected to boost innovation efficiency by 20-30%, laying a strong foundation for future AI adoption and positioning the company as a leader in its industry.
Compliance By Design
Food & Nutrition Leaders: Centralized Solutions for Global Compliance
Leading companies like Biscuits Leclerc, Summit Hill Foods, Ocean Spray, OSI Group, Synlait, and Vitalus Nutrition sought a collaborative approach to manage regulatory and quality compliance. By adopting the Food News Monitoring System, Food Legislation Library and REGDATA® tools, they centralized regulatory data, improved collaboration across teams, and gained real-time notifications for global compliance changes. Trace One’s food regulatory compliance solution reduced reliance on manual research, resolved language barriers, and streamlined compliance tracking, enabling these businesses to stay ahead of regulatory requirements in multiple markets.
Brüggen: Simplifying Compliance for Export Markets
Brüggen struggled with the manual process of sourcing regulatory information from government websites, leading to inefficiencies and the risk of missing legislative updates. By implementing Trace One Regulatory Compliance, the business transitioned to a centralized compliance platform that streamlined workflows and reduced manual effort. The inclusion of the “My Queries” system allowed the regulatory and R&D teams to anticipate changes effectively, accelerating time-to-market and ensuring compliance across export markets.
Eureden: Proactively Managing Regulatory Changes
Eureden faced challenges tracking international regulatory updates while managing increasing workloads. By adopting Trace One Regulatory Compliance, the company gained a centralized database for regulatory assessments, enabling them to check substance limitations and perform compliance evaluations efficiently. Trace One’s solution reduced time-consuming manual processes, minimized risks associated with missing updates, and improved teams’ ability to anticipate regulatory changes, ensuring seamless compliance across various markets.
Thai Nisshin Technomic: Simplifying Regulatory Research
Thai Nisshin Technomic faced challenges in tracking regulatory updates and substance limitations across multiple countries. By adopting Trace One Regulatory Compliance, the company gained a robust system to conduct efficient regulatory document searches and monitor substance limits. This streamlined approach reduced the time spent on manual research, improved accuracy, and ensured compliance across all regions where they operate.
General Mills: Streamlining Regulatory Oversight
General Mills sought a solution to manage regulatory compliance and food safety across its global retail operations. By implementing Trace One Regulatory Compliance, the company gained access to a centralized platform for monitoring food news, country-specific regulations, and risk alerts. This comprehensive solution provided General Mills with the tools needed to enhance compliance management, ensuring regulatory updates were tracked and implemented efficiently, supporting the safety and integrity of their global supply chain.
Addev Materials: Achieving Compliance and Streamlining Processes
Addev Materials faced significant compliance challenges, particularly in maintaining up-to-date and regulation-compliant safety data sheets (SDS s) for its tailored products. Issues with REACH compliance, language translation delays, and the need to meet stringent aviation industry standards prompted the company to adopt Trace One’s SDS software solution. The company can now automate compliance processes, improve language coverage, and ensure seamless integration with printers. The solution enhanced efficiency for the regulatory department and consultancy agency, addressing compliance risks and outdated workflows.
Litokol: Transforming Regulatory Compliance and SDS Management
Litokol aimed to streamline compliance processes and improve SDS management by integrating a centralized platform. Its goals included syncing substance databases for 300+ raw materials, automating SDS authoring for individual formulas, and maintaining a single repository for regulatory information. With Trace One SDS Litokol saved time, mitigated non-compliance risks, and enhanced data reliability. The regulatory affairs team values the system for combining compliance repository functions with formulation management.
Consulting-in-Cosmetics: Simplifying SDS Authoring for Complex Formulas
Consulting-in-Cosmetics needed a next-gen SDS authoring software to save time, ensure compliance, and manage complex formulas. It adopted Trace One SDS inclusive of VOC calculation and detergent tool add-ons. The regulatory affairs team now benefits from an easy-to-use solution that replaces their outdated system. Trace One has enhanced compliance management and ensured reliable data for the market, making SDS authoring faster and more efficient.
Building a Future of Innovation
Trace One continues to deliver transformative results for businesses across industries, addressing their unique challenges and setting them up for long-term success. From enhancing global compliance management to accelerating product innovation, our solutions empower companies to streamline operations, improve collaboration, and achieve measurable ROI. As we move into 2025, Trace One remains committed to driving industry excellence and shaping the future of regulatory compliance and product lifecycle management.
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