beCPG PLM

PLM for food, cosmetics and consumer goods that centralizes product data, formulation, specifications, projects and supplier documents to shorten time to market.

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Product Data Management

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Overview

Manage finished products, raw materials, packaging and documents in one repository, formulate recipes with costs, nutrition and allergens recalculated live, generate specifications, and run development projects with workflows, version control and change orders. Suppliers upload specification sheets and certificates through a portal, and the Chef AI assistant offers suggestions that your team approves. Built for food, beverage, cosmetics and consumer goods; available as a free open-source Community Edition (LGPL v3) or as the Enterprise Edition, offered as SaaS or on your own servers.

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Product

Demo Url: becpg.net/contact-us
Documentation: becpg.net/docs/en
License ID: GNU LGPL v3
License Model: Mixed licensing
Solution Kind: Suite

Who it is for

Organization Types: Business

Images

beCPG product sheet for a quiche lorraine with properties, version and tabs (demo data) — Product sheet in the beCPG repository, shown with demo data1 / 2

Features

Product Data Management

Single product repository shared across departments

Completeness score per use

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Publication to GS1 GDSN, websites and ERP

Categories: Product Lifecycle Management

Lifecycle Management

Product states: simulation, to validate, valid, stopped, archived

Control from brief and specification to end of life

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Change Management

Change orders with approval step

Version comparison

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Where-used analysis

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Design Management

Recipe formulation with live recalculation

Packaging and eco-design

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Artwork review and approval

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Bills of Material

Bill of materials with effective dates, variants and alternatives

Packaging bills of material

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Project Management

Stage-gate projects from templates

Gantt with dependencies, assignees, durations and calendars

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Project portfolio dashboards

Task notifications and reminders

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Supplier Management

Supplier portal for specifications, certificates and questionnaires

Document validity tracking with renewal reminders

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Supplier base monitoring and supplier non-conformities

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Version Control

Version management with change history

Comparison of versions and products

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Branches and versions

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Product Lifecycle Management

Product states from simulation to archived

Version history and comparison

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Where-used analysis and change orders

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File Management

Document management linked to products and projects

Online preview and sharing with external partners

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Artwork review with annotations and version comparison

E-signature

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Metadata Management

Typed metadata

Custom fields and data lists without development

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Data completeness score per use

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Data Synchronization

Delivery method: Integration

Publication channels to ERP, PIM or GS1 data pools with resynchronization and logs

Changes made available when a product is validated, modified or archived

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Data Storage Management

Single repository for products, raw materials, packaging and documents

Saved searches and export to Excel

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Full-text search in document content

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Bills of Material

Bill of materials with effective dates

Variants and alternatives

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Packaging bills of material

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Change Management

Change orders that simulate and then apply a change

Approval step

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Where-used analysis

Bulk editing

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Workflow details

Engineering: revisions
Engineering changes
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Access & availability

API operations and access

Import and export any entity in JSON

Run formulation

Generate documents

View version history

Technical details

API

Access: Public
Documentation: becpg.net/docs/en/development/API.html
Protocols: REST
MCP

Deployment

Client Channels: Browser
API
Delivery Models: Cloud (SaaS)
On premises
Hosting Regions: Europe
United States
Isolation Modes: Dedicated instance
Sandbox: Yes

AI

Customer Knowledge: Retrieval
Uploads
Human Approval: Before each action
Input Modalities: Text
Image
Structured data
Output Modalities: Text
Structured data
Use Cases: Translation
Information extraction
Knowledge question answering

Implementation

Delivery Mode: Self service
Vendor

Editions · Community Edition

Edition name: Community Edition
Edition scope: Free open-source core under GNU LGPL v3; you build and run it with Docker from the GitHub sources, with community support and food and cosmetics data to configure yourself.

Editions · Enterprise Edition

Edition name: Enterprise Edition
Edition scope: Subscription edition on the same open-source core, with SaaS on Google Cloud in Europe or the United States or installation on your own servers, a stable branch with patches, full BI and reporting integration, preconfigured food and cosmetics data, and support, implementation and training from the beCPG team.

Data

Export Formats: JSON
Excel workbook
CSV
Import Formats: Excel workbook
CSV
JSON

Customization

Skill Level: No code
Supported Scopes: Fields
Workflows
Reports
Templates
Business rules

Reliability

Uptime SLA Percent: 99.5

Security

Access Models

Role based
Field level

Assurances

Kind
Assessment
Scope
SaaS platform; security audit including penetration testing by Vaadata (April 2026)
Issuer
Vaadata
Standard
Security audit including penetration testing
Kind
Self declaration
Scope
SaaS platform; information security management system aligned with ISO 27001 (alignment, not a stated certification)
Standard
ISO 27001-aligned information security management system

Encryption At Rest

Yes

Encryption In Transit

Yes

Residency Scope

Region
Europe or United States
Provider
Google Cloud
Data class
Primary data

SSO Protocols

SAML

Support

Training Formats: Documentation

Integrations

Gs1 gdsn

Direction: Outbound
Method: Built-in connector
Objects: GS1-standard XML product files sent automatically to data pools such as Equadis, 1WorldSync, Synkka, Validoo or Atrify
Sync Mode: Event driven

Sap s4hana

Direction: Outbound
Method: Built-in connector
Objects: Materials, bills of materials and routings exported to SAP S/4HANA in OData or IDoc format
Sync Mode: Event driven

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