Navigating Cosmetics Regulations with PLM for Seamless Compliance

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Regulations on cosmetics are more demanding than ever. From product concept to shelf, you must ensure total and complete compliance: analyzing ingredients, testing, storage, labeling, packaging, and product safety claims. A global marketplace creates an extra layer of complications, as regulations differ whether you’re based in Europe, the United States, or Asia. The risks are huge for the beauty industry. Any misstep can be harmful to consumers and damaging to your company’s reputation and bottom line.

Discover how innovative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies can help your organization keep up the pace.

Streamlining Compliance: Overcoming Cosmetics Regulation Challenges with PLM

Meeting cosmetic regulations in the beauty industry is far from easy. You’re constantly trying to stay up to date and adapt to changing EU cosmetic regulations. And that means regionalizing compliance—packaging and labeling, ingredient restrictions, formula management, and reporting—across all global markets, including product and safety testing certifications.

Managing compliance data tracking is another major challenge for the cosmetics industry. From traceability and documentation to proof of compliance and packaging and labeling, it’s crucial to keep all your product regulatory information in one place. The extensive data and reporting of all this information goes beyond your internal operations. Your team must work to communicate with your external suppliers and monitor compliance across the supply chain.

PLM helps tackle regulatory and general compliance so you can develop high-quality products that meet consumer expectations. Centric PLM™ gives you the tools to track and trace product information and effectively maintain compliance documentation in a single up-to-date digital location, from raw material origins to sustainability and cosmetic product safety.

How to Effectively Manage Complex Compliance and Regulatory Processes

Global regulations are challenging organizational processes all over the world. In Europe in particular, the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan has big impacts on the cosmetics and personal care industry. But there are tech-forward solutions. Whether it’s the Cosmetics Regulations (CE 1223/2009), the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), or the Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR), Centric’s PLM helps meet even the biggest European Union cosmetic regulation challenges.

With PLM you can:

Keep all the product information in one place, from product cosmetic formulation analysis to ingredient lists from suppliers and test reports
Generate compliant data and information like Ingredient Statements or Product Information File (PIF) and ensure compliance of pack copy
Tackle regulatory requirements and backlists with ingredient screening and cosmetic formulation
Efficiently manage finished product specifications, from raw materials to packaging
Avoid rework and recalls by building compliance screening into NPD
Ensure labeling information accuracy
Assess raw material and formulation compliance
Communicate with external suppliers to monitor compliance, from internal and external audits to documentation updates and testing management
Master supply chain visibility
Enhance collaboration between teams

Key Major Benefits of PLM for Cosmetics Compliance

An effective PLM changes the game. Centric’s PLM enables you to simplify regulatory compliance assessment and approval from the beginning. You can get instantaneous regulatory analysis of product formulas based on blacklists, along with automated printing of ingredient lists to ensure products are safe and ready for market.

Claims and the Product Information File (PIF)

Tackle claims management from briefs to testing to approval and substantiation, along with all associated digital assets. PLM allows you to effectively create and manage the Cosmetic Dossier, where a centralized cloud-based PIF eliminates transcription errors. The results? Reduced compliance risk and improved labor: and you’ll free up your teams from manual data entry and the endless search for product information.

Corrective & Preventative Action Plans for EU

Centric’s PLM allows you to configure your corrective and preventive action plans activities supporting compliance with European and global regulatory standards:

Manage tolerance
Get a handle on stability and compatibility
Challenge testing
Create effective CPAs to combat issues as they arise
Take charge of the Cosmetovigilance system without worry

Supply Chain Visibility

With PLM’s supplier portal you can manage and connect manufacturers and their brand or retail customers directly to PLM information. You can also conduct supplier self-assessments and other third-party assessments using audit templates. Additionally, product brief and packaging templates empower quick and easy RFP creation and supplier responses—ideation and annotation in one digital space.

Reduce Cosmetic Product Safety Risks Faster

PLM helps reduce the countless risks associated with non-compliance and cosmetic product safety by quickly adapting to regulatory changes across all markets. With PLM, the regulatory process becomes more efficient. It accelerates PIF generation and improves productivity across all departments. Innovative tools help streamline your quality control processes to reduce cost quality issues when your products hit retail shelves.

We can manage cosmetic claims, set ingredient or claim restrictions by-country and create a full library of internationally recognized ingredients. We can also quickly identify if products contain ingredients that aren’t compliant with the markets we sell in which is extremely useful and important.”

– David Cumberland, MECCA.

Future-Proof Your Business with Centric PLM

Ready to streamline your Cosmetics & Personal Care compliance processes and stay ahead of changing cosmetic industry regulations? Become a leader in the marketplace and ensure supply chain visibility at every step.

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