Product SKU management involves the meticulous organisation of related specifications for individual items within your product inventory.
By implementing robust specification management practices, businesses can optimise their ways of working, streamline supply chain interactions, and ultimately enhance their overall success.
4Pack Specification+ is part of the powerful 4Pack software solution, designed to help food,beverage and CPG brands and businesses with an evolving array of SKUs to streamline and simplify how they launch, manage, and package their products.
Specification management has a critical role in these end-to-end processes. Because
4Pack is uniquely configured and shaped for each customer it is often implemented first as
Specification+ to help centralise, connect, control and harmonise specifications.
Specifications+ increases the control you have over process governance and reduces the likelihood of expensive product recalls – all the while accelerating the time-to-market for your products. Our platform prioritises ease of use via clearer task management, reducing the burden of email traffic and manual spreadsheets, and facilitating collaboration of input across teams and external suppliers.
In essence, specification management digitises the creation, completion and approval of product and packaging information related to a SKU, including linked suppliers and manufacturers. It entails establishing a structured system that enables businesses to effectively keep track of their vast array of products.
With version comparison, you can view a full history of inputs and changes that have been made in relation to a particular SKU, and configure access and security to your own requirements. Ultimately, Specifications+ will optimise your operational efficiency by easing the collaborative process, reducing duplicate work and facilitating a much swifter review and audit process.
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With Specifications+, you can conveniently access and manage your specifications online. This feature enables easy collaboration among team members and allows for real-time updates, ensuring everyone stays on the same page.
Maintaining comprehensive and accurate product specifications is essential for efficient SKU management. With Specifications+, you can easily create and manage detailed specifications for your products, including essential details such as dimensions, materials, and packaging requirements. This feature ensures that your products are properly documented and helps streamline inventory processes.
Consistency and compliance in packaging copy are vital for branding and regulatory purposes. Specifications+ enables you to manage and maintain specifications for packaging copy, ensuring uniformity across your product range and adherence to industry standards. Keeping track of version changes in specifications can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Specifications + simplifies this process by automatically tracking and managing version changes. With this feature, you can effortlessly identify and compare specification revisions, ensuring that you have the most up-to-date information.
These comprehensive features empower you to streamline your product SKU management, improve accuracy and compliance, and boost overall operational efficiency. With Specifications+, you can bid farewell to manual processes and disjointed systems and take full control of your SKU management.
Curious about our Specifications+ product? Find answers to common questions here.
Learn how Specifications+ streamlines product and packaging specification, optimises workflows, and enhances communication with suppliers. Discover how it can help reduce time-to-market and ensure accuracy throughout the supply chain. Explore its integration capabilities and how it addresses compliance and regulatory concerns.
Suppliers have permission-controlled access to 4Pack, using a web browser. Notifications will be issued when a supplier has a task to do, this could be completing or checking a specification, there is a link in the email taking the supplier directly to the current version of the specification. The specification is simply submitted when completed from within 4Pack.
Yes, any documents can be attached, and expiration dates can be set. When the document is due to expire, a notification is issued to advise that it needs review.
It is very simple, the critical benefit of digitising specifications is then having the ability to conduct the most simple or comprehensive searches, all of which can be saved and are updated in real time. 4Pack provides dashboard and BI reporting capability.
This is clearly communicated via the email notifications and within their own 4Pack dashboard. A hyperlink takes suppliers directly to the task, they are presented with the current version to complete their task on. Once completed, the specification automatically moves to the next task in the workflow.
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