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Trace One Devex: Industry-leading PLM for Process Manufacturing

Trace One Devex PLM is a total software solution for process-based manufacturers in F&B, cosmetics, and chemical industries to enhance their enterprise operations throughout the entire product lifecycle. Discover how Devex PLM accelerates innovation and time to market while ensuring compliance and controlling costs.

What is Devex PLM?

Trace One Devex PLM is a product lifecycle management (PLM) software for process manufacturing. Whether you’re manufacturing food and beverages, cosmetics, or specialty chemicals, Trace One Devex PLM provides a single source of truth to unify important product data and processes. Trace One, the premier SaaS provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and compliance solutions specializing in the food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care, and chemical industries. , acquired and integrated the Devex PLM platform when it merged with Selerant in 2022.

All You Can Do with Trace One Devex PLM

Trace One Devex PLM is a comprehensive software suite with PLM capabilities addressing the full spectrum of manufacturers’ needs. PLM software unifies product information and workflows, bringing more value to business processes and improving innovation, decision making, resource allocation, and marketplace agility.

What is a PLM System? What can it do for me?

New Product Development and Introduction

Innovation Process Management
Explore and screen new materials; source ideas throughout your organization; and determine if new products fit your organizational goals.

Analysis and Optimization
Centralize critical insights for data-driven decision making. Optimize complex formulation, ingredient and packaging data workflows. Have end-to-end visibility to manage extended supply networks.

New Formulation Development
Optimize new product formulation to accelerate speed-to-market. Integrate all product data and specifications to ease the pain of managing formula changes.

Regulatory Compliance and Traceability

Ironclad Compliance Data
Centralize all regulatory and compliance data for superior product lifecycle management.

Global Regulatory Database
Trace One’s experts are constantly vetting and updating the centralized REGDATA® regulatory compliance database.

Ingredient, Packaging, and Finished Product Management
Enable total control and traceability from sourcing all the way to final label generation to mitigate compliance risks.

Quality Control and Supplier Management

Supplier Collaboration Portal
Establish a single source of truth with robust supplier management functionality, so you can link ingredients back to suppliers and have total supply chain visibility.

End-to-end Quality Management
Centralize specifications, requirements, incidents and CAPAs for clarity.

Manage Test Protocols and Workflows
Streamline quality control processes and ensure seamless information flow between R&D and quality control.

Supported Verticals & Industries

Trace One Devex PLM Verticals

Process manufacturers in Food & Beverage, Cosmetics, and Specialty Chemicals use Trace One Devex PLM capabilities to work with a single source of truth throughout formula-based product development. By providing more efficiency and better cross-team collaboration, Devex PLM results in accelerated time to market and lower costs.

Process manufacturers must navigate an ever-changing set of compliance regulations in different regions and languages around the world. Trace One Devex PLM capabilities include a comprehensive regulatory compliance framework, which makes it easier to avoid compliance violations and recalls.

Labeling requirements are particularly strict for chemical companies, and failure to comply can result in fines, recalls, or legal issues. Trace One Devex PLM for chemical companies includes an SDS Authoring and EHS compliance module that automates labeling and safety data sheet generation aligned with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS).

Product inconsistencies present another risk for process manufacturers: they erode consumer trust and can lead to brand damage, regulatory penalties, and even lawsuits. Devex PLM has built-in quality management tools to provide end-to-end visibility with easy-to-read dashboards. Trace One Supplier Collaboration Portal (SCP) makes it easy for suppliers and vendors to maintain quality, as global supply chains shift, and compound ingredients undergo changes.

Trace One Devex PLM User Roles

Many roles in a manufacturing business make use of Devex PLM capabilities. Devex PLM connects teams including research & development; regulatory affairs; quality management; procurement and supply chain management; and IT.

Business Role	PLM Capabilities
Heads of Research & Development	With Trace One Devex PLM, R&D heads can automate recipe management, track and compare formula versions, and accelerate product development.
R&D Specialists	Trace One Devex PLM makes it easy to collaborate and communicate, so there’s no confusion about which version of the formula is in use and no need to send and sort through many emails.
Global Regulatory Leaders	Regulatory leads can perform automated, early, and real-time compliance checks throughout the product development process with Devex PLM. The Trace One Regulatory Compliance service provides continual updates on regulations.
Regulatory Affairs Specialists	Regulatory affairs specialists benefit from the single source of truth that Trace One Devex PLM provides. They can easily access past evaluations and approvals and store product regulatory dossier information.
IT Directors	Trace One Devex PLM can be deployed either in the cloud or on-premise for the most cost-efficient solution. It can be integrated with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for seamless product data transfer. Manufacturers can recoup costs by retiring legacy software.
Quality Directors	Regulatory affairs specialists benefit from the single source of truth that Trace One Devex PLM provides. They can easily access past evaluations and approvals and store product regulatory dossier information.
Quality Managers	Trace One Devex PLM and E-Sourcing capabilities increase supplier-provided data quality through electronic questionnaire-based collaboration. This can help identify potential quality risks in the earliest stages of the supply-chain process, putting quality teams in a proactive rather than reactive position.
Chief Procurement Officers	Trace One's Supplier Collaboration Portal simplifies qualification, registration, and management for suppliers and vendors to maintain quality. This helps manufacturers to maintain a stable and flexible supply chain.
Procurement Specialists	Trace One Devex PLM provides clear rules and workflows for supplier onboarding and management together with comprehensive risk assessment and supplier audits. Documents and procedures are accurate, up-to-date, and traceable.

Trace One Devex PLM Capabilities for Industries

The PLM capabilities of Trace One Devex have been developed over decades of serving the specific needs of process manufacturers across major industries.

Food and Beverage

In the food and beverage industry, global food regulation adds layers of complexity for manufacturers. Trace One’s pre-existing regulatory packages include a wide breadth of data structured to work efficiently within Trace One

Devex PLM to ensure compliance. This is the fastest and easiest way to customize the platform’s regulatory automation functions. Our packages cover legislative sources reaching over 85 countries, including more than 400 vertical and horizontal guidelines along with 2 million restrictions. Our database includes more than a million limits on additive usage in specific food categories, 40 thousand restrictions on veterinary drugs, 900 thousand restrictions on pesticide residues, 16 thousand limits on contaminants, and more than 40 thousand conditions of use for flavoring specific regulations.

For food and beverage manufacturers, end-to-end quality management is a particular concern. Devex PLM's integrated food safety management system reduces the risk of recalls with standardized food safety audit procedures. Specific product development tools control attributes for juice, alcohol, and cereal recipes.

Cosmetics

Trace One Devex PLM helps cosmetics and beauty manufacturers manage all new product development and introduction processes. Cosmetics-specific templates for ingredients and formulations allow manufacturers to standardize data requirements for new products. Trace One modules automate the creation of Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and Product Information File (PIF), and makes it easy to generate Technical Data Sheets (TDS). Integration with ingredient and raw materials platforms in Trace One Devex PLM helps product developers choose the best raw materials from a comprehensive database of 80,000+ ingredients and raw materials for cosmetics and personal care.

Chemicals

In the specialty chemicals industry, Trace One Devex PLM helps expedite product development by providing one platform that all teams use. Cost and time-to-market are reduced with formula batching and by leveraging a centralized formula database. In addition, Trace One SDS Authoring can automatically distrubute the correct version of your data sheet.

The Difference: What Sets Trace One Devex PLM Apart

Trace One Devex PLM is unique in the breadth of features it offers across the entire product lifecycle, leading to faster product launches, a connected value chain, and streamlined business processes throughout the enterprise.

What you get with Trace One Devex PLM

Benefit	How it works
Integrated Regulatory Compliance	A complete regulatory solution is available with the Trace One Devex PLM, so you can evaluate recipes and compare them against a harmonized database of regulations.
Workflow Management	Validation and approval processes are tailored to your organization’s requirements.
Industry Expertise	Trace One has implementation, customer success, and support teams with deep experience in many different areas of process manufacturing.
Efficient Change Management	Trace One Devex PLM enforces control over revisions to formulas, specifications, and documents.
Data Intelligence	Flexible dashboards, real-time performance metrics, and reporting tools in Trace One Devex PLM support data-driven decision-making.
Integration	Trace One Devex PLM integrates with ERP and other enterprise systems, sharing information about ingredients, packaging, formulas, and finished products. Manufacturers can also link formula-based business processes to essential financial data.

AI in PLM

Precise raw material data is key for ensuring product adherence to development requirements. Dealing with hundreds of product specifications

from raw materials suppliers, product developers need to spend a significant amount of time entering materials’ attributes in PLM manually with a high risk of making mistakes.

Trace One Devex PLM’s new AI-powered feature, AI Data Extractor helps recognize and extract necessary data from product specifications in PDF format to boost efficiency and reduce manual data entering. Introduced AI technology as part of a PLM system can comprehend various document types and formats, continuously learning to adapt to evolving content patterns, and seamlessly mapping extracted data to existing system attributes for enhanced integration and analysis within the PLM system.

Product developers using AI Data Extractor will get the benefits of:

Efficiency: the solution reduces time and effort required for manual extraction tasks.
Accuracy: AI Data Extractor provides precise and consistent extraction compared to manual methods, minimizing errors.
Productivity: it boosts overall productivity by streamlining extraction processes.
Data Accessibility: the solution makes extracted information readily available within the PLM system for quick access and utilization.
Scalability: it is adaptable to various document types and formats commonly encountered in PLM workflows.

Key Business Benefits for Process Manufacturers

Accelerated innovation and faster launches

Trace One Devex PLM helps process manufacturers develop and manage new product introductions and change requirements efficiently. Trace One’s product development suite makes opportunities easier to discover, facilitates production and launch velocity, and simplifies packaging management and specifications.

A connected product value chain

Trace One Devex PLM lets you manage and measure every aspect of the product lifecycle to optimize business processes.

Mobile access on-the-go

The mobile web application makes it convenient to check and approve projects, specifications and materials. It allows employees to access Trace One Devex PLM from wherever they are, using a mobile phone.

Forward-looking sustainability metrics and management

Companies can make sustainability decisions early in the product development cycle through integrated lifecycle assessment (LCA) analysis with Trace One Sustainability.