Streamline New Product Development (NPD) cycles & change management
Collaborate with suppliers
Reduce collaboration friction across the life of your ingredient and recipe portfolio. Automatically incorporate supplier documents and data, chat with suppliers in real-time and share the data across your internal teams and systems effortlessly.
Manage specifications
Recipes & Specifications solution is a single source of truth for your teams – providing a cloud-based collaboration hub for specification management centered on trusted and traceable information, without all the duplicative manual work.
Generate formulations and labels
Powerful formulation capabilities immediately analyze changes and display the impact to nutrition, allergens, costs, ingredient lists and more. Automatically generate compliant labels based on your target markets and declaration sets.
Streamline compliance and commercialization
Automatically assess regulation compliance from the earliest stages of recipe creation throughout development to reduce time-to-market and ensure alignment with global regulations. Generate product specification sheets, create reports, and publish data to downstream systems in one seamless flow.
Wondering how a PLM solution will benefit your company?
Recipes & Specifications solution by Hamilton Grant is purpose-built to solve specific industry challenges.
Food & Beverage Manufacturers
Easily create and modify recipes to see the impact on ingredient costs, label data and category-specific metrics such as baker’s percentages, water loss, freezing points and BRIX.
Restaurant Chains
Instantly see how changes affect cost, calories, allergens, menu pricing and other key details for restaurants, generate and share recipe sheets with your team and publish nutrition information for menus and websites.
Private Label & Co-manufacturers
Drive growth and improve responsiveness by centralizing product data, streamlining supplier collaboration, and enabling fast, error-free formulation and documentation.
Designed for the food & beverage sector, supported by expertise
Deploying a PLM system—or switching from disconnected, outdated programs—can seem daunting. It’s not just about implementing new technology; it’s about transforming how your team collaborates, organizes data and ensures compliance.
Recipes & Specifications solution is purpose-built for food and drink innovation, and our tools and support make implementation seamless:
30+ Years of Expertise
- Recipes & Specifications solution has been trusted by leading global food and beverage companies who have relied on us for over three decades, with solutions shaped by real-world challenges.
- Industry best practices and standards are built into the application, with an API (application programming interface) built to leverage that knowledge—because food and beverage is all we do.
Easy to Implement
- Cleaning, structuring, and transferring years’ worth of product and recipe data can feel an overwhelming process, but our tools and hands-on support allow for low disruption and fast time to value.
- Our software offers a powerful API connection that enables easy integration with other systems such as quality management system (QMS) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Intuitive Interface
- Even the best technology is ineffective without user adoption, which is why we tailored Recipes & Specifications solution with an easy-to-use, online interface to meet sector-specific needs.
- Whether you’re a regulatory specialist, quality manager, or R&D lead, the system adapts to your role with configurable views and responsibilities.
End-to-End PLM Solution Tailored for the Food Industry
Concept Development & Ideation
- Capture and organize new product and recipe ideas in a single, online database. Draft initial formulations, collaborate with potential suppliers, and log early-stage concepts to assess market potential—all while linking ideas directly to spec development from day one.
Evaluation & Feasibility
- Quickly assess technical viability, resource needs, and market fit. FoodChain ID’s Recipes & Specifications solution connects recipes and specs with supplier data, existing formulations, and regulation requirements to streamline costing analysis, technical comparisons, and compliance checks for target markets. Tap into our digital supplier network to access ingredient data, technical documentation, and regulatory inputs with minimal manual effort.
Product Development
- Build and refine recipes while managing specs in real time—all within a single program that leverages your interconnected data and past learnings. Formulate to nutritional and regulatory targets, document trial results, and track changes across labeling, ingredient sourcing, and manufacturing. Built-in collaboration tools and automation features accelerate development, reduce manual work, and improve team efficiency by design. Quality controls, production steps, and finished product attributes are defined and traceable in one database tailored for food product developers.
Commercialization & Launch
- Transition seamlessly from recipe development to launch. The system automatically generates final outputs—like labels, data sheets, and regulatory documentation—and flows structured information into downstream systems through API integrations. Recipes & Specifications solution adapts quickly to changes, helping teams respond to last-minute adjustments with minimal disruption. Enhanced visibility, control, and coordination open communication channels, ensuring teams stay aligned, execute key launch activities effectively, and meet commercial objectives.
Growth & Expansion
- Extend your product line with speed and confidence by building on existing recipes and formulations. Quickly develop and deliver new variations to market using automated, built-in tools to model scenarios and assess the impact of formulation, sourcing, or labeling changes. Identify high-potential opportunities by evaluating compliance fit across multiple target markets. Spend more time creating what the market wants—and less time maintaining what already exists—with Recipes & Specifications solution.
Maturity & Optimization
- Maximize profits while managing product lifecycle costs and keeping products relevant. The platform enhances efficiency and provides built-in guidance and tracking for ongoing maintenance and continuous improvement. Whether you’re removing troublesome ingredients from your supply chain, optimizing for specific claims, or focusing on strategic goals like cost reduction, clean label, sustainability, or portfolio rationalization, these changes can be made faster, with less risk, and better support for your teams. Use your digital pantry to refine recipes and formulas, tap into your supplier network to improve performance or margins, and explore options with powerful scenario-planning tools.
How can Recipes & Specifications solution help you streamline innovation?
Every organization is different. Our deep industry expertise and the flexibility of our platform allow us to meet you where you are—by understanding your priorities, your environment, and where you’re trying to go.
TALK TO THE EXPERTSWhy choose FoodChain ID’s Recipes & Specifications solution?
Trusted & used by leading food brands
Leading global brands with decades of experience including rely on Recipes & Specifications by FoodChain ID to streamline innovation and change management.
Purpose-built & backed by expertise
Recipes & Specifications is backed by trusted regulatory data and deep subject matter expertise. Pre-loaded and tailored to your business needs with regionally specific rules and calculations and embedded best practices.
ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type 2 Certified
We adhere to the highest standards for information security and operational excellence, ensuring your data is protected with ISO 27001 certification.
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