Product Lifecycle Management

Manage the development of your product from concept to commercialisation with comprehensive software solutions

Our Solutions

Sage X3 ERP New Product Innovation

Lascom Lime PLM

Procession for Sage X3 ERP

BatchMaster for SAP Business One

Lascom Lime from Aptean is industry-specific product lifecycle management (PLM) software. The system acts as a unified repository for all related information, comes packed with features for the exacting tasks of your dedicated professionals and facilitates cohesion as projects progress through the contributions of multiple departments.

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Industries who benefit from PLM software

Companies operating in the food and beverage sectors, food services and catering, personal care and cosmetics industry.

Click the links to find out how PLM specifically meets the Food & Beverage and Cosmetics industry’s.

McKinsey & Company research shows that digitally enabled innovation allows consumer goods companies to bring new products to market 50% faster, at a third lower cost and with double the ROI.

Lascom Solutions PLM software “Lime”, enables companies to better manage each phase of a products lifecycle

Lascom’s significantly decreases the manual daily tasks surrounding product development across your marketing, R&D, quality and procurement teams through it’s distinctive management of information on one integrated platform. PLM boosts innovation, assists in meeting deadlines and saves time through the avoidance of re-keying data, or relying on paper, emails and spreadsheet information.

Lascom aims to efficiently increase productivity, accelerate time to market and reduce risks through:

Streamlining the New Product Development (NPD) process
Supporting on system change management processes
Supporting Product Range Optimisation
Document management relating to PLM business processes
Assisting with Product Costing calculations
Adherence to Regulatory requirements locally and globally
Formula and recipe compliance and conformance
Time to Market improvements
Collaboration between departments involved in PLM
Activity Analysis by person and department

Lascom PLM Cloud SaaS

Manages all information securely, including sensitive intellectual property over recipes, formulas and other product information

Offers non-complex views of product information, based on inter-relationships of information

Enables fast and effective access to information through a sophisticated range of searching and reporting tools

Accelerates productivity with users able to readily create new or reuse/modify pre-existing product information

Provides automatic generation of product specifications, saving time and reducing errors

Enables greater decision making through advanced impact analysis features, in particular comparisons, gap analysis and where-used

Offers management visibility/auditing of all product information and user activity

Provides supplier and customer Web portal access to share information

Meeting the PLM requirements of the Pet Food Industry

In 2019 Scoular created Petsource, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary, dedicated to the recipe development, meat processing, freeze-drying and packaging of high-protein ingredients for pet food manufacturers. To lay the foundations for success, Scoular began the construction of a $50 million manufacturing plant and developed a strategic IT roadmap, in which Lascom plays a key role. Download the brochure to find out how Lascom’s PLM was a key competitive asset for customer satisfaction.

“We wanted something that truly helps with project management, encompasses every aspect of product development, is intuitive for the users, is web-based and can scale up with us. We saw Lascom could offer us all of that!”

Brian MARTIN,
IT Product Leader at Scoular

BROCHURE

PLM & ERP Systems

We are now in the midst of a fully digital era. Technology is only going to become more and more central in the way organizations operate. The pressure is on manufacturers to deliver products that meet consumers expectations and tastes. For this reason alone, some businesses will need best of breed PLM software to stay ahead of rapidly changing consumer tastes and consumer sentiments. Some companies, usually based on their frequency and volume of new product development work, will find the “best of suite” PLM capabilities, available in some ERPs, more than adequate for their needs.

Sage X3 ERP includes new product innovation (NPI) capabilities. With Sage X3 NPI, companies can now capture work effort, ideas, costs and much more in their Sage X3 system. Sage X3 NPI supports capture and testing of new SKU’s, formulas, and recipes during the design & evaluation phase of a products lifecycle. Download Sage X3’s NPI PDF here. Procession for Sage X3 ERP also offers best of suite PLM including a formula / recipe development and costing sandbox and a nutraceutical industry add on that compliments Sage X3 ERP core software.

BatchMaster have released a best of breed new product development module that works with BatchMaster for SAP Business One.

Lascom PLM can run as a standalone PLM system, or it can be integrated with ERP software. Lascom offers an ERP – PLM software connector license.

SAGE X3 BROCHURE

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Provenio for Sage X3 ERP

Provenio extends the core Sage X3 ERP capabilities by adding and enhancing a range of business processes and captured data. Provenio builds upon the quality control functionality within Sage X3 and adds several key features required by process manufacturers. It also offers as a Nutraceutical plug-in option for Label Claims management. It provides the ability to formulate based upon nutritional targets.

Provenio includes an R&D tool for new product developments and the management of existing formulas. It also features the tools to prevent unauthorized alteration of formulas necessary under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

With the addition of Provenio’s Procession technology, your regulatory, manufacturing, inventory, QC, shipping and order data are all stored in a single database and can be accessed through a single user interface.

CitySoft deliver end to end business software solutions to the chemical industry by combining Sage X3 with software by Provenio. With greater visibility and centralized data, ABC Compounding were able to decrease orders greater than 5 days by a whopping 50% having introduced Sage X3 ERP with Procession.

Sage & Procession Features

Easy to create safety data sheets (SDS) and packaging labels
Integrated formulas, BOMS, intermediate and finished goods management
Forward and backward traceability to meet recall ready requirements
Tracking of formula properties
Detailed batch tickets with formula production details and instructions
A mobile sales App for order taking and Sales CRM

Quality Control as a process, not a step
Certificate of Analysis publication with customer shipments
A workflow manager supporting consistent processes across the enterprise
Inhibit rules prohibiting restricted shipments
On system PPE and hazard ratings for material handouts and batch makers
A bill of lading based on GSA/US/VIC guidelines

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R&D Formulation

That flexibly allows consistency while securing profitability.

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Regulatory Compliance

With GHS-specific functionalities that allow greater control over where a product can be sold.

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Quality Control

With capabilities such as the ability to set ranges and targets per prodcut to ensure greater customer satisfaction.

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Safety & Handling

Is more accessible through hazardous Material Ratings per product and safety and handling information labels and documents.

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Manufacturing

Has greater visibility around target volumes and weights per batch with batch tickets nad production notes, Work Order labels and BOMs linked back to master formulas

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Sales Order/Shipping

Is simplified through 3rd party billing, the ability to send CofA and SDS with shipments and Blind Shipment/Drop Shipment functionalities.

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Customer Service

Is improved to allow swifter management and greater customer satisfaction

Helping Monin manufacture 100+ foodservice products

A company created by a French family in 1912, Monin manufactures high value products for foodservice and hospitality professionals all over the world. Offering 150 flavours of syrups, liquors, fruit-based preparations, sauces or smoothies, Monin distributes its products in 150 countries.

Monin has had great success using Aptean PLM for its complex ERP systems; spanning five production facilities and needing to meet regulatory compliance across a handful of countries. Read more below.

“With Aptean PLM Lascom Edition, everybody has access to the same information at the same time. We save a lot of time!”

Nathalie
R&D Project Manger

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BatchMaster New Product Development

BatchMaster have launched a new product development (NPD) module which works with BatchMaster for SAP Business One. The new product delivers comprehensive NPD capabilities to BatchMaster for SAP Business One ERP system users. The system manages the entire product lifecycle from initial concept through to commercialization.

BatchMaster for SAP Business One

BatchMaster have embedded their process manufacturing product in SAP Business One to create a single ERP application designed specifically for process manufacturers. In addition to quality control, quality assurance and quality management (QMS) functionality, the BatchMaster for SAP Business One end-to-end business system for process manufacturers also offers companies the ability to manage Product Development activities.

BatchMaster for SAP Business One:

Embeds QC tests, labor costs and instructions within recipe and packaging specifications
Leverages integrated USDA and Genesis databases to determine ingredient physical and nutritional characteristics
Dynamically recalculates recipes using ingredient potencies
Tracks samples from Product Development Requests through to batch production
Calculates recipe cost estimates during product development
Executes multi-level approval workflows for recipes and packaging BOMs