Roles

Quality & Compliance, Purchasing, Production Management, Marketing, Sales, Legal

 

Challenges

You need to:

  • develop and deploy an ever greater number of products
  • meet increasing expectations from consumers for new products, better product labeling, more accurate ingredients analysis, perfect food safety, and health-related nutritional information
  • respond to increasing regulatory constraints on ingredients, allergens, traceability, packaging, control plans, ethical issues, sustainability
  • deal efficiently with cross-border, multilingual markets
  • manage relationships and exchanges with your corporate ecosystem, handling a growing network of suppliers
  • optimize existing product lines while launching new products in parallel

But:

  • you have exactly the same resources this year that you had last year
  • your budget is no bigger than it was, and might even be smaller
  • your schedule has, if anything, become tighter

Trace One can help

Trace One Product Specifications provides an environment for collaborative development of product specifications with your suppliers through highly available, totally secure Internet-delivered SaaS. Our solution helps to accelerate the process from the time the contract is awarded to the time the specifications contracts are electronically signed.

 

With Trace One Product Specifications, you develop specifications for food, cosmetics and personal care products that comply with national and supra-national standards. Trace One’s unique, patented, collaborative environment and electronic signature features drastically reduce development time and effort, and accelerate the time-to-signature. The always up-to-date database and reporting and data extraction features also allow for rapid alerts management.

 

With Trace One Product Specifications, you save time by accessing the Trace One user base, the largest community of private label suppliers in Europe. You are instantly ready to work with thousands of “Trace One-connected” suppliers who already manage their specifications with Trace One.

Benefits

  • Reduce the time for entry, validation and signature of product specifications by up to 50%
  • Gain significant amount of time by managing an alert on an ingredient in less than 1 hour instead of days
  • Increase the number of SKUs managed with the same resources by between 11% and 25%
  • Increase the number of specifications managed per Quality Manager by between 12% and 50%
  • Gain significant amount of time by managing a product specification revision in less than 10 minutes instead of days

Features

  • Highly available, totally secure Internet-delivered SaaS environment
  • Management of Food specifications
  • Management of Cosmetics and personal care specifications
  • Compliance with national and supra-national standards
  • Unique patented collaborative environment
  • Electronic signature
  • Reports for alerts management
  • Reports for supervision and activity monitoring
  • Reports for continuous improvement
  • Customization capabilities

Why choose Trace One?

Selecting a software vendor is always an important decision, all the more so in a period of economic uncertainty and rapidly changing market requirements.

Here are five compelling reasons to select Trace One.

 

1 - Business solutions 100% dedicated to private label management

We did not design generic software and hope that we could sell it later. We built business solutions working with leading retailers to solve the problems they face everyday developing their private label products. Trace One solutions embed the same best practices approach that you take to your product design.

2 - Your community of suppliers is already "Trace One-connected"

If you do business in Europe, the chances are excellent that you already (or are planning to) work with some of the 6,200 "Trace One-connected" suppliers. 80% of the private label suppliers to the French market and 30% of European suppliers already work on Trace One.

 

By becoming a "Trace One-connected" enterprise yourself, you can instantly start working on the Trace One e-collaborative platforms and connect with your suppliers to facilitate the development of your private label products, reduce time-to-market, accelerate product innovation, improve supplier performance, and guarantee product quality and food safety for consumers.

3 - We guarantee an operational community in 6 months

Our dedicated Community On-Boarding teams, our Professional Services experts, and our trainers can help make sure that you go from decision to operational in the fastest time possible. With a proven methodology and unrivaled practical experience, we have already helped some of the largest retail firms in the world successfully achieve "Trace One operational" with their supplier community. Our goal: 60% of your suppliers should be "Trace One-connected" inside 6 months, and 95% within the year.

4 - Leading retailers and manufacturers choose Trace One platforms

Our client list includes European retail leaders such as Carrefour France, Auchan, Casino, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Lidl, Carrefour Spain, Eroski, Carrefour Belgium, as well as 6,200 suppliers in food and non-food.

5 - SaaS itself: Fast, secure, and cost-controlled software

We think that SaaS (Software as a Service) is the software model of the future. It's cheaper, faster, continuously upgraded, and totally secure. SaaS not only involves much lower upfront costs, it also lowers your total cost of ownership (TCO). You no longer have to worry about viruses or upgrades because we do that for you. You no longer need to find the budget for software maintenance, because you know exactly what your investment is and will be.