Why Trace One Devex PLM? Integrate food safety audit and quality audit processes into product development
Trace One Devex PLM easy-to-read dashboards enable your quality assurance team to monitor products, procedures, and processes against their targets. Simplify how you assess quality along the entire product lifecycle, verify the root causes of any non-conformance issues, and manage preventative or corrective actions.
- Integrate product data management and quality information to build a consistent view of products and processes.
- Increase collaboration and break down silos to bridge gaps between people, departments, and suppliers.
- Automatically track product revisions and configuration history.
- Identify and reduce quality issues throughout the product lifecycle.
- Learn from historical quality and product data to strengthen decision-making.
out of the box plm Overcome challenges in quality assurance
Quality matters. But, it’s difficult to ensure quality across every breakpoint in the product lifecycle – especially when information silos, disconnected systems, and fractured processes get in the way. Companies need a quick, consistent way to identify, analyze, prevent, and correct quality issues at every stage to stay ahead of the competition.
Quality management at each stage of NPDI Risk management and mitigation
- Seamless Audit Management
- Seamless Integration into Trace One Devex PLM
- Supplier Risk Assessment
- Non-conformance Management
- Quality and Performance Dashboards
Certificate of Analysis
Conduct both internal and external audits according to different standards, making sure you get the right certificate of analysis for any product.
Simplify quality assurance
Use configurable checklists that meet your needs and plans, and enable thorough quality audits with multiple scoring systems.
Easily manage audits and follow-ups
Plan, schedule, and execute your quality audit process through a configurable workflow, then schedule follow-ups and recurrences based on your results.
Visibility where it matters
Ensure the right feedback reaches the right people at the right times so they can ensure quality within their functional area.
Organization-wide accountability
Built-in quality auditing empowers teams to enforce and verify organizational policies as it drives accountability for process owners.
Everything in its place
Capture every event, document, and audit trail to make the quality assurance process more transparent and traceable.
Proactive, not reactive
Identify quality risks as you onboard suppliers and facilities to address problems at the earliest stage of the supply chain process.
Assess and eliminate risk
Leverage risk assessment functionality that categorizes suppliers, facilities, and source materials according to predefined risk criteria.
Visualization and automation
A probability-severity risk model visualizes liabilities, then generates supplier scores that help teams assess and select providers.
Resolve non-conformance anywhere
Manage both internal and external non-conformance events to categorize, prioritize, and address quality issues throughout the extended supply chain.
A proven analysis methodology
Leverage root-cause analysis (RCA) to identify the origins of non-conformance, then initiate a CAPA plan to resolve it and prevent further issues.
Visualize, identify, resolve
Easy-to-use dashboards help teams make sense of dominant non-conformance root causes and address them quickly.
A Single Source of Truth
Get a bird’s eye view of all data across the entire supply chain with interactive dashboards.
Metrics that matter
Monitor key KPIs like number of SCARs and risk score trends by supplier, facility, and overall supplier base.
Critical data up front
Easily grasp critical data points with audit and nonconformance widgets, and seamlessly integrate Selerant's quality management tool with Power BI.
"With [Trace One Devex PLM], quality assurance managers can do a lot of checks and queries and do them a lot easier. Knowing their plant’s formulae and the materials in them helps them identify what they’re looking for."
- Vice President, food company
MAXIMIZE COLLABORATION Connect disparate teams across the entire product lifecycle
Research & Development
Meet go-to-market and budget timeline demands. Overcome data silos and leverage collaboration tools to formulate faster and access the right info at the right time throughout the entire product lifecycle. Maintain version control and eliminate redundancies and repetition with a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) platform. Optimize costs and meet consumer, market and regulatory requirements.
Regulatory Affairs
Eliminate consumer issues like improper labeling that can lead to a consumer getting sick from a mislabeled allergen and recalls with a comprehensive regulatory compliance framework. Perform real-time compliance checks throughout the product development process. Perfect product data governance ensuring product labels are populated with the accurate information.
Quality Management
Mitigate brand reputation damage of non-compliance to quality standards and certifications. Prevent financial loss due to inaccurate or poor product data. Ensure end-to-end visibility into quality management processes. Guarantee feedback reaches the right people at the right times so that each team can address quality issues before they get lost in transmission or passed onto the next stage of production.
Procurement & Supply Chain Management
Eliminate supply chain risks that occur when raw materials aren’t delivered on time or at all, thereby causing disruption to the flow of products and materials. Trace One Devex PLM supplier quality management ensures supply chain traceability and proactive management of potential issues.
Marketing & Innovation
Facilitate input from marketing professionals to product teams. Make sure new products match what consumers and the market demand with requirements-driven product development.
IT
Embrace digital transformation: ensure all the corporate systems speak to each other. Unify and consolidate platforms. Integrate your existing ERP system with Trace One Devex PLM for seamless product data sharing.
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SEE HOW CUSTOMERS USE Trace One Devex PLM Featured Case Studies
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Food and Beverage
Using Trace One Devex PLM for Quality Assurance
In order to manage a wide variety of suppliers, one of the largest processors and marketers of chicken, beef, and pork leverages Trace One Devex PLM to keep everything on track and efficient.
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Food and Beverage
Creating Cross-functionality with Trace One Devex PLM
A global confectionary company realizes the benefits of relying on Trace One Devex PLM as a single source of truth that connects all aspects of innovation workflows.
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Food and Beverage
How Business Process Reengineering Improves Workflows
In order to maximize the impact of Trace One Devex PLM, one nationwide food manufacturer decided its implementation should coincide with a business process reengineering review.