TraceGains

TraceGains provides supplier compliance, quality and product development software for the food and beverage industry, built around a shared supplier network the vendor calls Gather. Rather than each manufacturer collecting documents from its suppliers independently, suppliers maintain their documentation once on the network and every customer connected to them draws from the same source.

That network model is the distinguishing idea and it attacks the most tedious problem in supplier compliance. A specification sheet, allergen statement or certificate of analysis is requested by every customer a supplier serves, and each request is chased by email and stored in a different folder. Holding the document once, current, where all connected customers can see it removes the duplicated chasing on both sides of the relationship.

Product development sits alongside compliance because the two are the same work viewed differently. Reformulating a product means knowing which ingredients are available, what they contain and whether their documentation supports the claims the finished product will make, so having supplier data and formulation in one system shortens the path from idea to launch.

The platform spans sourcing, compliance, quality and innovation, with an AI layer aimed at helping teams find answers in supplier documentation and automate routine work. The vendor publishes network scale figures covering supplier locations, items and ingredients, countries and supplier documents held.