$49.2 billion – Revenue of the cosmetic and beauty industry in the United States in 2020
6.5% – China’s projected CAGR in the cosmetic skincare segment over 2020-2027
$429.8 billion – Estimated worth of the global cosmetic market in 2022
Cosmetic and personal care industry challenges
Are personal care & cosmetic regulations slowing down your product development and market expansion? Does fierce competition put stress on your margin and time-to-market? Is it difficult to keep up with the rapidly changing consumers’ tastes? Does it require you to innovate at a faster rate?
What about your organizational challenges? Are you wondering how to optimize your internal processes? How to facilitate communication and collaboration between the different stakeholders involved in your product development?
Do these challenges sound all too familiar to you? We understand. It is exhausting to always be on top of the game; so many factors put a strain on product development that it can be overwhelming to know where and how to improve your cosmetic product development process. With up to 90% of new products failing, it is important to have the appropriate solutions to ensure that your products are a part of the successful 10%.
Aptean PLM Lascom Edition – Features
of Our Cosmetic Software
Make your new cosmetic product development projects trouble-free and time-efficient
New cosmetic product development
Our features, such as workflows & stage gates management, automated notifications, Gantt chart visualization, milestones, and reporting, enable you to facilitate your NPD process follow-up while considerably reducing your time-to-market and enhancing internal and external collaboration.
Cosmetic product and project portfolio management
Aptean PLM Lascom Edition allows you to easily manage the ever-increasing number of products and volume of documents and data related to your products and projects by centralizing them into a single & structured database. The intelligent search tool simplifies the access to information and the dashboards help you to achieve quick and strategic decision-making.
Cosmetic formulation
Our cosmetic product development software facilitates R&D professionals’ daily tasks by providing features to create new prototypes or modify existing formulas. It also provides calculations such as product cost, ingredients and allergens present in the formula as well as its history and prototype comparison.
Enforce cosmetic product regulatory compliance
Cosmetic regulatory compliance
Lascom from Aptean personal care & cosmetic software facilitates the compliance of your product with the various regulations. It provides essential features such as regulatory analysis, automatic warnings, and real-time display of blacklists and regulatory restrictions linked to raw materials and ingredients. It also allows you to automatically generate and manage the lists and thresholds of ingredients and allergens.
Cosmetic Product Information File (PIF)
The European regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products requires industry professionals to provide a Product Information File (PIF) for each marketed product. Our software dedicated to the personal care & cosmetic industry allows you to automatically gather all the information and documents to automatically generate the different items comprised in the PIF. Aptean PLM Lascom Edition helps you maintaining this complex folder compliant and up-to-date at all times.
Ensure cosmetic product quality throughout the lifecycle
Cosmetic quality testing management
Aptean PLM Lascom Edition includes specific quality features such as test management (e.g.: tolerance, stability, compatibility, challenge test, etc.), customization of test tables and comparison of test results of different formulas. In addition, thanks to its workflow engine, you can automatically schedule and follow up the tests to be carried out by any stakeholder, either internal of external.
Non-conformity management
Lascom from Aptean cosmetic software lets you report, qualify, manage, and close any non-conformity regarding your raw materials, packaging and finished products. This allows you to centralize all information to better analyze the causes and plan corrective actions. You can easily track and ensure the quality of all articles and products all along their life cycles, from purchased raw materials or packaging to the launch of the marketed finished products.
Ease data-based communication with your cosmetic suppliers and external partners
Change management and information traceability
Aptean PLM Lascom Edition for the cosmetic sector allows you to thoroughly examine the impacts that any single modification can have on your product portfolios, such as updated regulations or raw material specifications. These dedicated features allow you to quickly take into account any change and maintain your whole product database healthy.
RFQ and RFP management
Sourcing your products, raw materials, and packaging is a critical step. A considerable amount of information is shared, gathered and checked, which makes it difficult to keep track of all the data and documents, and ensure that every needed information has been received. Aptean PLM Lascom Edition personal care & cosmetic software eases Request for Quotation and for Proposal processes through its secured collaborative platform, optimizing each step of the process.
Supplier relationship management
Lascom from Aptean personal care software enables you to digitalize information and documents and automate workflows and processes. A secured portal provides central access to and control of all relevant information such as supplier’s information, specifications, proposals, etc. Our personal care & cosmetic software allows you to automate the exchange of information, hence facilitating communication and collaboration with your suppliers
