Challenges

When corporate strategy could mean launching a thousand new products per year, rebranding product lines, optimizing pricing structures for existing lines, then everyone in the private label department must be committed to absorbing the resulting workload.

Success involves hundreds of suppliers, some of them already trading partners, some not. Success also requires close coordination between internal actors and all the departments involved in private label development.

 

Trace One can help

Developed with Carrefour, the Product Development portal centralizes the collaborative process in SaaS mode, bringing under a single view all supervision of processes of product launch, optimization, and revamping, from the definition of the workload plan to the initial unit rolling off the production line.

Benefits

  • Facilitated collaboration, since all parties access the same unique projects and centralized documents
  • Full integration with Trace One Quality portal modules including Specifications for ingredients identification, and Technical Data Sheets for sharing information with interested third parties (standards boards, audit and certification bodies, laboratories, journalists, etc.)
  • Full integration with the Trace One Packaging Portal, for orchestrating the creation of the packaging in the development lifecycle
  • Full tracking and reporting facilities for better product portfolio management

Features

  • Take account of business and technical realities for retail food products (shared markets, point-of-sale networks, variable RFP scoping, etc.)
  • Complete lifecycle and status settings management
  • Rapid views of differences in RFx responses from consulted suppliers
  • Built-in workflow scheduling process, with automatic reminders based on deadlines
  • Every player in the process has access to all information required, and only that information
  • Powerful reporting functions on workload plan, product release scheduling, etc.