ProductVision for the Personal Care, Consumer Products & Fragrance Products Industry
The Personal Care, Consumer Products & Fragrance industry faces numerous challenges that complicate the product development process. Aggressive product innovation is crucial for increasing market share and consumer recognition, leaving limited time for product development. Regulatory restrictions on ingredients, which vary by country, product, and customer, further complicate formulation. The presence of allergens in many natural materials limits ingredient usage and adds significant reporting requirements. Additionally, fragrance formulas are often complex, with multiple ingredients and trace components.
ProductVision streamlines your product development process, leading to faster time to market. It automates formula creation with automatic calculations of all key product attributes, including allergen content. Its query features allow you to find existing formulas that may meet new requirements quickly. All formula revisions are automatically maintained, and product development tasks can be tracked and controlled using Project and Workflow features.
Key Benefits
Ensure Compliance with Raw Material and Formulation Requirements
The Guidelines & Restrictions Module identifies restrictions for raw materials used in specific applications and geographic locations. Users can assign rules at either the raw material or formula level. At the formula level, a guideline check determines specific restrictions for raw materials based on their amounts in the formula, either globally or in a particular country or region.
Track Testing and QC Requirements with the Integrated Testing Module
The Testing Module is a powerful tool for entering extensive testing information for raw materials and formulas. A single test entry may include multiple test attributes, notes, and test results. The module's flexible design supports various test types, including physical property, toxicological, microbiological, clinical, stability, and analytical tests. Tests can require multiple attributes and result entries to fully define conditions, final results, and final pass or fail judgment.
Track Allergens Using ProductVision Properties
Tracking and reporting allergens is essential when working with natural ingredients in the Fragrance and Personal Care Products Industry. ProductVision includes standard properties and reports to allow formulators to report allergen information as required by IFRA and regulatory authorities. This helps inform customers of product allergens and ensures compliance with maximum dosage levels for fragrances allowed in IFRA classes.
Control Formula Creation and Revisions with Automated Approvals
ProductVision's integrated Workflow Module simplifies the execution and tracking of workflows in product development. This includes new product creation, reformulation projects, competitive analysis studies, and new/edited product formula approvals. ProductVision optimizes business processes, increasing efficiency and accountability.
Security Features Control Access and Editing of Formulations
ProductVision's security features restrict who can view, create, edit, delete, or print formulations. Access can be further restricted by formula type, location (entity), and status, ensuring only qualified employees can modify formula information.
Record All Changes for Future Reference
The system records all changes to items in ProductVision, including details such as the user, date and time, and the specifics of the change. ProductVision prevents future changes to finished formulas by assigning a "locked" status or moving items to a non-editable Entity or Security Type.
Single Source for Product Information
ProductVision consolidates product recipe, nutritional, specification, and cost information into a single system. This eliminates the need for multiple systems (spreadsheets, databases, additional software packages) and provides a single source of truth. The integrated system automatically calculates product properties, costs, allergen content, and restrictions. Product developers can access comprehensive information, enabling formulators to work together as a team.
Links to Other World-Class Software
ProductVision can share raw material and recipe information with popular Manufacturing Resource Planning, financial, and plant and lab automation software packages. This integration eliminates duplicate data entry, reduces time to market, and improves information accuracy.
We invite you to contact us today to learn more about how ProductVision can exceed your organization's expectations and enhance your product development capabilities.
