4Pack’s specification management software helps you simplify, standardise, and control product data and packaging specifications across your organisation.
Designed with a user-centric interface, our solution enables rapid onboarding, reduces errors, and ensures full traceability throughout your specification lifecycle.
Our solutions have been implemented across a range of multinational brands, manufacturers and retailers:
4Pack Specifications+ is part of our powerful 4Pack software suite. It enables packaging and NPD teams to store, manage and approve specifications in one secure location, replacing manual spreadsheets and disconnected workflows.
With Specifications+, you can:
Specification management refers to the structured process of defining and controlling all the information that makes up a product – from its ingredients and materials to its packaging dimensions and artwork details.
Without clear management, even small inconsistencies can lead to costly production errors, non-compliance and wasted time. A digital specification management system ensures everyone works from accurate, approved data, maintaining consistency across products and regions.
For growing organisations, the volume of data across packaging, ingredients, allergens and sustainability metrics continues to expand. Manual systems simply cannot keep up. By digitising your specification management process, you can:
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By offering a streamlined platform that seamlessly integrates data, we eliminate manual errors and accelerate time-to-market, saving valuable resources. Our advanced tools enable businesses to efficiently manage artwork revisions, facilitating brand consistency and regulatory adherence. 4Pack provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that empower businesses to optimise their processes.
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4Pack provides one of the most comprehensive, scalable and configurable specification management solutions available today.
Unlike generic data management tools, 4Pack has been built specifically for the packaging and consumer goods industries. It understands your workflows, from artwork approval to product compliance.
4Pack connects marketing, technical, design and regulatory departments in one shared workspace. Everyone works with the same data set, ensuring consistency and transparency across the organisation.
With 4Pack, your business achieves a single source of truth for all product data, driving faster launches and more sustainable operations.
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Discover answers to the most frequently asked questions about specification management.
Learn how to streamline and optimise your product and packaging processes efficiently. Find out about the benefits of adopting specification management solutions and how they enhance collaboration and communication across teams. Explore the features that ensure compliance and accuracy, saving time and valuable resources.
Specifications are configured to meet each Client requirement, this includes setting parameters to fields and defining drop downs, this provides control when the specification is being completed. Workflow and status triggers will drive the specification validation and sign off.
Specifications and artworks are linked together, and rules can be set that if there is a change in the specification that creates an artwork change impact, the team are notified, the change actioned and the spec and artwork are synchronised.
4Pack is a cloud-based solution, is accessed via a web browser with a username and password. The access rights and visibility are defined by user type, this enables the most comprehensive specification to be worked on by internal teams and supply chain partners with robust security measures in place. A user only sees and can do what their permission allows and notified when their contribution is required.
4Pack is very simple for suppliers to use, they receive a notification when they need to complete or check a specification, the current version is always automatically presented, and fields can be set to mandatory to ensure the quality of completion prior to submission.
Any information that is captured directly in a 4Pack specification is available for search and reporting. It is quick and simple to create searches personal to each user and these can be saved with real time data updates
Managing specifications manually often means endless email chains, uncontrolled spreadsheets and duplicated data. This approach increases the risk of errors and compliance gaps.
4Pack automates your specification management lifecycle, providing clear approval routes and instant visibility into progress. Version control ensures everyone is always working on the latest data.
Cross-functional teams can work together in real time within 4Pack. Whether your technical, marketing or regulatory colleagues are in the same building or on different continents, they can review and approve specifications in a shared digital environment.
This connectivity shortens approval cycles, improves communication and ensures all packaging and product information remains accurate from concept to consumer.
4Pack was developed specifically for industries where speed, accuracy and compliance are critical. We help brands address common challenges such as:
By adopting 4Pack’s specification management solution, businesses reduce complexity and gain peace of mind knowing their product information is accurate, current and compliant.
Audits can be time-consuming if your data is stored across multiple files. 4Pack simplifies the process by keeping every document, version and approval trail in one place. Retrieve audit-ready reports in seconds and demonstrate compliance with confidence.
Artwork and packaging changes can easily cause confusion between teams. 4Pack ensures full version control, so your designers, printers and marketing teams always reference the latest approved specification, reducing costly reprints and delays.
