TraceGains

TraceGains is cloud software for food and beverage manufacturers and brands. It manages suppliers, ingredient documents, audits, corrective actions, quality records, specifications and formulas, and connects to a shared supplier network called Gather. It is sold to quality, regulatory, procurement and product-development teams at brands, co-manufacturers, retailers and private-label companies, not to restaurants.

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Food and beverage manufacturers, Brands working with co-manufacturers
Pricing
From USD 20000 per year
Runs on
Web

Who it is for

  • Food and beverage manufacturers

    Supplier documents, certificates of analysis, audits and corrective actions sit in one system that supports FSMA and GFSI audits.

  • Brands working with co-manufacturers

    Networked Finished Goods gives brands and their contract manufacturers a shared place for materials, documents and finished-product requirements.

  • R&D and product-development teams

    Formulas, specifications, packaging specs, nutrition calculation and label artwork are linked to the same ingredient and supplier data.

  • Quality and regulatory teams managing many suppliers

    Supplier approval, expiring certificates, risk alerts and regulatory monitoring are handled in one place instead of email and spreadsheets.

Less suited to: Restaurants and other food service operators without a manufacturing or supplier-document workflow. TraceGains describes its customers as brands, manufacturers and co-manufacturers, retailers, private labels and emerging brands, and its lowest published price is around $20,000 a year.

What it does

  • Supplier Management

    Central supplier and ingredient records with document collection, approval workflows, expiry alerts and dashboards.

  • Supplier Compliance and COA review

    Reads certificates of analysis, flags out-of-spec results, tracks supplier scorecards and keeps receiving logs and inspection records.

  • CAPA Management

    Tracks complaints, corrective action requests and nonconformances, with root cause analysis and cost tracking tied to suppliers, items and locations.

  • Quality Management

    Digital quality records for plants with standard forms for FSMA and GFSI, workflows and notifications for HACCP, audits and CARs.

  • Audit Management

    Checklists and templates for internal and supplier audits, with audit records that can be analysed by supplier, item and geography.

  • Horizon Scanning Global

    Maps incident alerts from thousands of data sources to a customer's own ingredients and suppliers, in partnership with SGS Digicomply.

  • Gather supplier network and Intelligent Sourcing

    A shared network of supplier locations and ingredients where buyers find and qualify suppliers and suppliers share documents once with many customers.

  • Specification Management

    Configurable templates, version history and effective-date workflows for ingredient, packaging and finished-goods specs.

  • Formula Management

    Connects recipes to specs, ingredients and claims data so R&D can develop and reformulate products.

  • Packaging Specification Management

    Links ingredient and packaging specs, finished-good specs and artwork approvals, with workflows for changes such as allergens or claims.

  • Artwork management (WebCenter Go)

    Artwork approval tool for food and beverage packaging, offered together with Esko.

  • NutriCalc

    Nutrition and allergen calculation for recipes, including sub-recipes, with compliant label formats.

  • Regulatory Global

    Regulatory research and monitoring data from SGS Digicomply covering hundreds of jurisdictions.

  • Finished Goods for co-manufacturing

    Shared view of materials, documentation and finished products between a brand and its contract manufacturers.

  • Carbon Insights and ESG data

    Carbon and climate ratings for suppliers, ingredients and products to support sustainability and regulatory reporting.

  • AI and document processing

    Extracts and structures data from supplier documents and industry forms into digital records.

Pricing

Starting price
From USD 20000 per year
Pricing model
Quote only

TraceGains says prices start around $20,000 (about 17,000 euros) per year, with contracts that rise or fall with usage and the solutions chosen. Solutions are sold as modules. No plan list, per-user price or free trial is published. Suppliers can join the Gather network for free.

How it compares

Compared with the 5 products in Supplier Compliance & Quality Management that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

  • Lists Web only. Among the 4 products in this category that state their platforms, 0 list an iOS app and 0 list an Android app.
  • The category's 6 most-named integration partners are DitchCarbon, Esko, Global Forest Watch Pro, HowGood, Sedex, SGS Digicomply. This product names all 6.

Works with

Other
SGS DigicomplyEskoSedexHowGoodDitchCarbonGlobal Forest Watch Pro

TraceGains says it integrates with major ERP and PLM systems to sync supplier, specification and compliance data, but does not name them. The partners listed are data and artwork partners named on its site.

Where and how it runs

Customers in
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Platforms
Web
Hardware
None stated. TraceGains is sold as cloud software.

TraceGains does not publish a list of countries. The vendor says it has centers of excellence in the US, UK and the DACH region, data infrastructure in North America and Europe, and dedicated support for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Its network covers suppliers in more countries.

The company

Company
TraceGains, Inc.
Registration
Delaware corporation
Founded
2008
Headquarters
Broomfield, United States
Founders
William Pape, Gary Nowacki, A.J. Dolan
Customers named by the vendor
Hudsonville Ice Cream, HelloFresh, Baker & Baker, Wellington Foods, Smart & Final, J.M. Smucker, Clif Bar, Ocean Spray, Tate & Lyle, Bunge, Oatly, King Arthur Baking, Tillamook, Lamb Weston, Campbell's, Bimbo, Sensient, Upside Foods, Jiffy, Basic America Foods, T. Marzetti

Security and support

Security and compliance
SOC 2 (the vendor says it achieved certification in 2021 and that TraceGains AI runs in a SOC 2-compliant environment)
Support
Customer success managers, professional services for data migration and integrations, and a self-service TraceGains Academy with training material. Hours and response times are not published.

Listing details

Built for
Food manufacturing
Focus
Food-specific
Status
Active
Website
tracegains.com
Also listed in
Batch & Lot TrackingQuality Management System (food QMS)Recipe Formulation & Product Development (PLM)Traceability & Recall Management

Alternatives to TraceGains

See all 16 in Supplier Compliance & Quality Management

  • Foods Connected

    Foods Connected is cloud software for managing a food supply chain.

    Listed as best for: Retailers and food service providers; Large food manufacturers.

  • AgNext

    AgNext is an Indian agri-tech company that sells food quality testing and inspection, using computer vision and portable spectroscopy to check grains, pulses, spices and other commodities, plus digital quality certificates tied to lots.

    Listed as best for: Bulk food buyers and procurement teams; Banks and lenders financing food commodities.

  • Share-ify

    Share-ify is a cloud platform for supply chain compliance and collaboration in food and other regulated goods.

    Listed as best for: Food manufacturers and brand owners with many suppliers; Distributors and retailers.

  • Azzule Systems

    Azzule is a web platform for supply chain and compliance data.

    Listed as best for: Food importers needing FSVP support; Retailers and food service buyers with many suppliers.

Compare TraceGains

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What we could not confirm

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

  • Plan tiers, per-module prices and contract length (only a "from about $20,000 per year" figure is published)
  • Which ERP and PLM systems are supported
  • Employee count
  • Interface languages (the site has a German page; the product languages are not stated)
  • Whether any part of the product suits restaurants or food service
  • Current customer count, supplier-location count and country count
  • Funding history (the company was acquired by Veralto; no rounds are published)

Sources

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

  1. Homepage: positioning, customer logos, testimonialshttps://tracegains.com
  2. Pricing FAQ, integrations FAQ, ecosystem overviewhttps://tracegains.com/capabilities/
  3. Company history, founders, Veralto, SOC 2, DACH expansionhttps://tracegains.com/about/
  4. Supplier Managementhttps://tracegains.com/compliance/supplier-management/
  5. Supplier Compliancehttps://tracegains.com/compliance/supplier-compliance/
  6. CAPA Managementhttps://tracegains.com/compliance/corrective-and-preventive-action-management/
  7. Quality Managementhttps://tracegains.com/compliance/quality-management/
  8. Audit Managementhttps://tracegains.com/compliance/audit-management/
  9. Horizon Scanning Globalhttps://tracegains.com/compliance/horizon-scanning-global/
  10. Carbon Insightshttps://tracegains.com/compliance/carbon-insights/
  11. Gather supplier networkhttps://tracegains.com/capabilities/tracegains-gather/
  12. AI and SOC 2 statementhttps://tracegains.com/capabilities/intelligence/
  13. ESG datahttps://tracegains.com/capabilities/esg/
  14. Specification Managementhttps://tracegains.com/product-development/specification-management/
  15. Formula Managementhttps://tracegains.com/product-development/formula-management/
  16. Regulatory Globalhttps://tracegains.com/product-development/regulatory-global/
  17. NutriCalchttps://tracegains.com/product-development/nutricalc/
  18. Finished Goods and co-manufacturershttps://tracegains.com/product-development/finished-goods/
  19. Packaging specificationshttps://tracegains.com/product-development/packaging-specification-management/
  20. Artwork management with Eskohttps://tracegains.com/product-development/webcenter-go/
  21. Support and ERP/PLM FAQhttps://tracegains.com/support/
  22. Compliance overview and ERP/PLM FAQhttps://tracegains.com/compliance/
  23. Legal entity and office addresshttps://tracegains.com/legal/privacy/
  24. Page discoveryhttps://tracegains.com/sitemap_index.xml