PLM strategy
Define what PLM needs to do for your business and the roadmap to get there — before anyone signs a license.
Product lifecycle management
PLM Consulting for Food & Beverage
Most PLM advice comes from someone selling the software. Cristian ran product lifecycle management globally at The Coca-Cola Company — so his only agenda is what actually works for you.
Product lifecycle management is how a food or beverage company manages formulas, specifications, packaging, suppliers, and compliance across a product's whole life. Done well, it cuts time-to-market, reduces errors, and makes audits and reformulation far easier. Done badly — or bought from whoever sold the hardest — it becomes expensive shelfware.
Cristian led PLM operations and the digital bill of materials for The Coca-Cola Company. He has run these platforms at global scale, which means he can help you choose, design, and roll out PLM without bias toward any one vendor — and without the painful mistakes that sink most implementations.
How Cristian helps
Strategy first, software second — so the platform serves the process, not the other way around.
Vendor-neutral selection
Evaluate platforms against your real requirements, run the vendors, and avoid the costly wrong fit.
Digital bill of materials
Connect formulas, specs, packaging, and suppliers into a governed, reconcilable source of truth.
Rollout & adoption
Own the process design and change management that make PLM actually get used — not shelved.
The payoff
- Faster product development and reformulation, with fewer errors.
- Compliance and audits backed by trustworthy, connected data.
- A platform choice you won't regret in two years.
- PLM your team adopts, instead of works around.
The vendor-neutral advantage
Software vendors and their resellers have a clear incentive: sell their platform. An independent advisor who has actually operated PLM at global scale has a different one — your success. That's the perspective Stelytics brings.
Cristian's background in chemical engineering and three decades in food & beverage means he understands both the technology and the formulas, specs, and compliance it has to manage.
Book a free consultationFrequently asked questions
What is PLM in the food and beverage industry?
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the system and process for managing a product's information — formulas, recipes, specifications, packaging, suppliers, and compliance — across its entire life, from concept to retirement. In food & beverage it's central to speed-to-market, reformulation, quality, and regulatory readiness.
Do you sell or implement a specific PLM platform?
No — and that's the point. Stelytics is vendor-neutral. Cristian helps you decide whether you need PLM, what it must do, and which platform fits, then guides the rollout. Because he isn't tied to any vendor, the advice serves your business, not a software sales quota.
We already bought a PLM tool but it's not working. Can you help?
Often yes. Stalled or underused PLM is usually a process, data, and change-management problem more than a software one. Cristian can assess where it broke down and help you get value from the investment you've already made.
What's a digital bill of materials?
A digital bill of materials connects a product's formula, specifications, packaging, and supplier data into a single governed structure — instead of living in scattered spreadsheets. It's foundational to reliable PLM, quality, and compliance.
Let's talk about your supply chain.
The first 30 minutes are free — bring your hardest problem and get a clear-eyed read from someone who has solved it at global scale.
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