As product ranges expand and retailer requirements tighten, many mid-sized food manufacturers are finding the same problem: recipes in one place, costs in another, specs somewhere else, leaving plenty of room for mistakes in between. UK food Product Lifecycle Management specialist Point74 is aiming to fix that with the launch of its new platform, Point74 Pro.
Designed as a ready-to-use product development, finance and technical system, Point74 Pro lets manufacturers manage the full lifecycle of a product in one place — from recipe creation and technical data through to costing, compliance and retailer-ready outputs. The focus is practicality, giving businesses a structured system without long implementation timelines or major customisation work.
The timing reflects growing pressure on manufacturers to launch products faster while still meeting increasingly detailed retailer and regulatory expectations. By holding everything in a single dataset, teams can see version changes clearly, understand margin impact earlier and generate consistent documentation without repeating manual work.
The software is also intended to improve day-to-day work across departments. Reducing duplicated data entry helps strengthen compliance and gives NPD, technical and commercial teams clearer shared visibility — meaning fewer last-minute surprises before launch.
Mark Wood, Chief Commercial Officer (pictrued) said: “Point74 Pro is for manufacturers who are growing fast, launching more products, or struggling with their development and are feeling the strain of manual processes.
“When recipes, costs and technical data live in different places, it is too easy for errors to slip in and margins to leak out. Point74 Pro brings everything into one controlled platform so teams can move faster and launch products with confidence.”
“Food manufacturers do not need another generic system; they need a platform that understands the realities of recipe-driven production, change control and compliance,” Will Telford, Chief Technology Officer, added. “Point74 Pro is engineered around clean master data, structured specifications and practical integrations, so teams get immediate insight into what is changing, what it impacts and what it will cost, before it becomes a problem.”
Point74 Pro is available now to UK manufacturers, with onboarding support to help teams migrate data and adopt standard workflows quickly. The platform complements the company’s Enterprise system already used by larger brands including Krispy Kreme, Waitrose and Charlie Bigham’s, bringing the same structured approach to businesses looking to scale without losing control of their product data.
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