Compliant Design: A New Approach to Product Development

Today, food and beverage brands are facing significant market challenges that encompass ever-accelerating innovation cycles, supply chain insecurity and expanding regulatory complexities. Reliance on legacy workflows and siloed systems will fail to resolve these challenges — and fundamental transformation is necessary to ensure competitive innovation. That’s why FoodChain ID recommends moving to compliant design.

What is compliant design? A holistic approach to new product development, compliant design ensures that regulatory compliance considerations and checks are embedded into the earliest product development stages to catch issues quickly and de-risk the process.

What’s the benefit of compliant design? Compliant design supports food and beverage manufacturers to accelerate innovation cycles, reduce risk, and bring new products to market faster.

De-risk development. Embedding compliance insights and checks earlier into the design cycle, rather than waiting to validate compliance after the product is fully developed, avoids the delays which occur when products run into regulatory issues at a later stage. Proactively identifying and fixing compliance issues early in the product development process significantly reduces sunk costs compared to remediating problems downstream.

Accelerate time-to-market. Giving product developers direct access to regulatory and compliance data within their workflows and tools empowers safe innovation from the start. Additionally, using AI or digital tools to automate regulatory and safety checks accelerates development when compared to manual checks. In seconds, technology can screen designs and identify non-compliant issues. This rapid feedback enables innovators to swiftly trial multiple designs to create a compliant product faster.

Promote innovation. By giving developers instant access to regulatory and compliance data they can rapidly trial multiple compliant designs with less risk until they create the optimal product. The ability to quickly test digital product variations and claims allows more innovative ideas to be explored safely. FoodChain ID’s digital solutions further drive innovation by providing insights into emerging regulations and consumer trends. This empowers developers to proactively create products that meet future consumer and market needs.

FoodChain ID compliant design services and solutions. FoodChain ID provides a range of solutions that help food and beverage manufacturers implement compliant design to modernize outdated product development lifecycles. Outdated workflows are reimagined and reconstituted as compliance insights are connected, automation is introduced and AI leveraged.

Early-stage regulatory compliance checks and market intelligence analyses can be used to accelerate validations and provide real-time alerts on emerging risks, while tools such as HorizonScan^™ and Food Fraud Database enable resilient supply chain and risk management. FoodChain ID’s solutions integrate with existing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions via APIs to promote ease of adoption and power innovation without a dramatic step-change in existing processes.

More information on compliant design can be found at https://foodchainid.com/compliant-design