Accelerate innovation in food formulation
Bring products to market faster and with greater confidence with our food and beverage product simulation engine.
Extend the power of your existing PLM or ERP system
Formulation for PLM integrates seamlessly with existing PLM, MDM, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, enhancing your existing environment with embedded AI-powered formulation tools, regulatory compliance checks and integrated labeling capabilities.
Optimize formulations with instant, real-world simulations using a digital twin
Our cloud-based workbench enables you to test and refine formulations in seconds. Instantly see nutritional rounding, ingredient lists, allergen declarations, and claims evaluated across multiple markets in real time.
Accelerate innovation with AI-powered insights
FoodChain ID Mentor™ transforms your company’s “know-how” and our regulatory expertise into actionable guidance directly in Formulation for PLM, giving R&D teams smarter, faster paths to successful product launches.
Recognized by Gartner® as a PLM choice
Formulation for PLM was noted in Gartner® Market Guide 2025
as a PLM choice for food and beverage companies.
Discover how Formulation for PLM enhances—not replaces—your existing sytems
Formulation for PLM integrates seamlessly with your existing PLM and ERP systems to unlock greater value without disrupting your current workflows. Our solution unifies key data from multiple sources into a centralized, development-focused environment that enables rapid prototyping, real-time simulation and effortless publishing back to your enterprise systems, all while maintaining your existing source of truth.
Purpose-built benchtop interface & recipe developer
- Customizable Benchtop Interface: Configure material properties and simulation fields to meet your process formulation needs.
- Advanced Multi-level Formulation Design: Edit material data across versions with real-time simulation results.
- Real-time Simulation: Configurable simulations are performed in real-time, providing immediate feedback on the impact of changes made.
- Automated Allergen & Labeling Review: Ensure accurate allergen declarations and claim alignment before launch.
Quickly create trials & add experimental materials
- Quickly Search Your Existing Pantry: Easily search through your existing pantry to pull previously used materials into your formula.
- Work with Several Versions at Once: Quickly switch between versions of a formula for seamless new formula development.
- Add Experimental Materials or Sub-formulas for Advanced Prototyping: Add and plug in experimental ingredients to determine feasibility without cluttering your existing specification management systems.
Set design targets & monitor outcomes in real-time
- Set Design Targets: Formulation for PLM enables developers to set design constraints early in the process to be used in formula development and aid in decision-making.
- Real-time Feedback and Monitoring: Instantly calculate outcomes and analyze product simulations as you make changes to your formula. Formulation for PLM enables complex conditional calculations, so you can work quickly and with confidence.
Integrated insights for context-based guidance
- Integrated Insights: Receive instant notification if there are issues or recommendations flagged by other functional areas, enabling behavior shaping and knowledge sharing across the organization.
- Real-time Feedback: Assess feedback instantly and make context-based decisions leveraging our integrated insights framework.
- Automatic Notifications: Stay alert to material changes that impact a formula, and review and accept changes integrated into the application.
Powerful analysis & decision capabilities
- Powerful Comparison Tools: Analyze declared values and simulated outcomes in a single view.
- Contribution Analysis: Formulation for PLM enables you to easily evaluate theoretical contribution per material.
Run compliance checks early in the process
- Integrated Regulatory Compliance: Enables product and recipe developers to run additive and market checks early in development to avoid downstream issues.
- Proactive Monitoring: Increase visibility, integrate intelligence and improve outcomes by enabling informed decisions earlier and more broadly across your organization.
Instant product and formulation guidance –
Powered by AI, backed by experts
FoodChain ID Mentor™ is an embedded AI product development tool that delivers real-time guidance and intelligence in our Formulation for PLM and Recipes & Specifications solutions, enabling faster, safer and more consistent decision-making in formulation and compliance.
Amplify your expertise
Mentor leverages your institutional knowledge and FoodChain ID’s trusted global industry data and intelligence to provide targeted, actionable advice – right where you formulate.
Apply knowledge automatically
What was once buried in SOPs, PDFs or expert memory is now instantly actionable in the workflow.
Make confident decisions, from start to finish
Teams can make informed decisions right from the start, without bottlenecks and rework.
Keep pace with change – without IT support
Easily and quickly create and modify AI skills to align with new guidance and the most up-to-date learnings without relying on technical teams.
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How can Formulation for PLM help you optimize formulations faster?
Every organization’s situation is different, and we are happy to chat with you about a unique custom solution for your business.
TALK TO THE EXPERTSWhy choose FoodChain ID’s Formulation for PLM solution?
Purpose-built for food and beverage
Unlike generic PLM solutions, Formulation for PLM is a true formulation workspace, built for and with product developers and executive leaders from leading food and beverage companies.
Seamless PLM and ERP integration
Enhance your existing platforms with advanced formulation, compliance, and product simulation tools without disrupting workflows.
Adapts to local market needs without duplicating effort
From nutrition rounding and allergen declarations to region-specific label data, Formulation for PLM supports global compliance and growth strategy at scale.
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