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Specright, an expert in Specification Management, announced new, expanded Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities tailored for the Food & Beverage (F&B) industry. Building on its spec-first approach, Specright now delivers a modern, AI-driven PLM solution that manages what products are made of—formulas, ingredients, packaging, and bills of material—helping brands accelerate innovation while ensuring compliance, sustainability, and quality.
This announcement follows Specright’s recognition as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 GartnerⓇ Market Guide for PLM in Food and Beverage Industries.
“While the core of F&B PLM remains specification management, recipe and formulation management, and bills of material for labeling and packaging, the PLM solution landscape is now catering to additional industry requirements through enhanced and extended features.”
“Traditional PLM systems were never built for the realities of fast-moving consumer goods, like Food & Beverage products—where managing the complexity of ingredients, formulations, and packaging is critical,” said Mike Boese, CEO of Specright. “By putting specification data and AI at the core, we’re not just modernizing PLM for F&B companies, we’re helping them future-proof their supply chains and accelerate product development.”
Why Food & Beverage Needs a New Approach
Food & Beverage companies have long struggled with legacy PLM tools designed for discrete manufacturing. These systems often fail to capture the ingredient-level detail and supplier-ready specifications required in today’s global supply chains, leaving critical data fragmented in spreadsheets and PDFs.
Specright addresses these gaps by offering the following capabilities:
Available Today
- AI Food and Beverage Formulation: Formulation AI tool for creating, re-engineering, and modifying formulas to accelerate time to market and drive new innovations.
- Manufacturing Instructions: Structured process data, line-level detail, and export-ready formats that ensure consistent execution from formula to factory floor.
- Intelligent Data Processing: AI solution for automatically digitizing documents (e.g. COAs, COIs) for faster digitization, SpecGPT for real-time insights, and Agents to streamline actions and improve decision-making.
- SpecGPT: Prompt-based interface to facilitate insights and streamline the Specright user experience.
- Product Data Management: Centralize all product data in one place to eliminate rework, move faster from idea to launch, enable real-time collaboration across teams and partners, and reduce errors with version control and data integrity checks.
- Formula & Recipe Management: Dynamic batch calculations, ingredient-level traceability, and claims validation.
- Supplier Collaboration: Real-time collaboration and spec-sharing with suppliers, ensuring data accuracy, compliance and speed to market.
- New Product Development: Structured workflows, automated approvals, and spec-to-product connections that shorten innovation cycles.
Coming Soon
- Nutrition and Labeling will streamline compliant label creation across regions with AI-powered setup, real-time claims validation, multi-level formula rollups, regulatory alerts, and more.
- AI Agents for admin tasks, workflow automation, integrations, and additional packaging and consumer goods workbenches.
- Formulation Batch Calculator enhancements will support multi-level formula calculations and mass-to-volume conversions for more accurate, real-world batch scenarios.
- Manufacturing Instructions visual process steps and dynamic attributes will enable teams to easily navigate instructions and capture precise process parameters.
Proven Results for Leading Brands
F&B leaders from Fortune 100 companies to challenger brands, are already leveraging Specright’s PLM solution to replace or augment legacy systems, achieving faster new product introductions, reduced duplicate specs, and improved traceability.
Expanding our partnership with Specright to manage specification data across the entire product life cycle sets us up for success in enhancing and developing innovative products, while also ensuring our workforce is more efficient,” said Andy Norman, CIO of Bob Evans Farms.
To learn more about Specright’s PLM solution for Food & Beverage, request a demo.
