From request to a correctly set-up ERP record in a fraction of the time. Anyone in the company can start a request; Zeak compiles what every area must contribute, learns from the products you have already built, and keeps one audit-ready record from the first request to the finished product.
Each new product, pack size and variant has to exist correctly in your ERP before it can be bought, made, priced or sold. The expensive part is not the idea; it is the setup, and the errors that slip through it into costing, inventory and revenue.
new global product launches captured each month by one consumer packaged goods launch database. In other industries the volume shows up as part catalogs, configurations and market variants.
of revenue is the estimated cost of bad data for most companies, as people correct errors and chase confirmation. The same research says two-thirds of that cost can be removed by fixing root causes.
Tufts CSDD, 2024 · McKinsey analysis cited in Eisenhardt and Tabrizi, 1995 · McKinsey Global Institute, 2012 · Harvard Business Review, 2017
External research describes results reported by other organizations. They are not results of New Product Creation and not a forecast for any customer.
For each problem, here is what changes, and the measure that proves it on your own requests. Nothing here depends on trusting us: every measure comes from your data.
A new item passes through sales, finance, procurement, engineering, product information, quality and supply chain, one handoff at a time, often by email.
With Zeak: One request, every area working in parallel on the part it owns, with tasks, due dates and reminders.
Weeks pass between the request and a product that can be bought, made, priced and sold.
With Zeak: Values pre-filled from your sources, similar products as the starting point, setup proposed and validated.
Wrong units, costs or settings reach orders, invoices and inventory before anyone notices.
With Zeak: Validation before approval, and a read-back that checks the ERP item against what was approved.
Item master data drives valuation, cost of goods sold, pricing and revenue, but approvals live in email.
With Zeak: Authorization, segregation of duties, an append-only record and ERP reconciliation, built into the process.
Specifications, artwork, certificates, approvals and comments sit in inboxes, folders and spreadsheets.
With Zeak: Every request, asset and artifact captured on one record, from the first request to approval and creation.
No single view of new products, packages, pack sizes and variants in flight, or of what was launched.
With Zeak: A live tracker of every item, package, pack size, variant and offering, by stage, owner and age.
A new product touches sales, finance, engineering, procurement, product information, quality, supply chain, compliance and IT.
Start a request from any department with the files that support it, and see where it is without asking anyone.
Item master data drives valuation, cost of goods sold, pricing and revenue. See how item creation is controlled and evidenced.
Values compiled from your sources and similar products, setup proposed with reasons, and a person deciding every value.
Specifications, drawings and formulas are attached once to the request and travel with the product.
Supplier, planning and handling settings are ready when the product launches, not chased afterwards.
Approvals, electronic signatures where required, and validation documentation for regulated environments.
One append-only record from request to created product, with segregation of duties and ERP reconciliation.
Where it runs, how it connects, whether it writes to the ERP, and who can do what.
Twelve topics share one product record, one body of evidence and one approval trail, from the first request to a verified ERP product.
New Product Creation is being built now on the Zeak platform. Features are delivered in releases, starting with the read-only foundation, in the order agreed in your proposal; the pilot uses the first release.
Every step is recorded in one place, and every suggestion is decided by a person. The steps are the same whether you finish by creating the product yourself or by letting Zeak write it.
Not every problem needs AI: most of this process is connected records, validated values and clear approvals. Where AI is used, suggestions are labeled, explained and logged; AI never approves, signs or commits, and can be switched off per capability.
Product master data drives inventory valuation, cost of goods sold, pricing and revenue. That’s why auditors look at who can create items, and how each one is approved. Zeak builds the controls into the process and keeps the evidence.
If we were in your seat, we would worry about four things: disruption to a process that works, control over the ERP, validation effort and data leaving your environment. Here is how each is handled.
Some industries create new items constantly: new products, new pack sizes, new formulations, new markets. That’s where manual setup takes the most time, and where New Product Creation helps most. Most real companies don’t fit one box. That’s normal.
Pack sizes, flavors, shades, seasonal editions and private-label versions arrive faster than the team can set them up.
Listing data, UDI and hazard data, signatures and validation, without bypassing Quality.
Large part catalogs, configurations, revisions and export controls, set up consistently.
Regulated or not: New Product Creation is configured to the rules you follow. Regulated workflows require use-case-specific design and validation.
Finance, Quality, Audit and IT need the same confidence: clear access, explainable values, a record of what happened and releases that never surprise production.
Read or download the studies we cite, and take them to Finance and your audit team.
External research describes results reported by other organizations; it is not a result of New Product Creation and not a forecast. Some publishers require a free account or subscription to download.
One product family, one owner, one baseline Finance agrees. Payback is measured in weeks, on your own data, against your own baseline.
Yes—we personalize New Product Creation to match your strategic initiatives, processes and organization. Choose the path that fits where you are.
One product family, one owner, measurable value. Scope, timing and pilot terms are agreed in your proposal.
The questions we hear, answered plainly, with the limitations stated up front.
See all Zeak FAQsIt’s a Zeak solution that takes a new product request from anyone in your company and carries it, with the right approvals and a full audit trail, to a correctly set-up product in your ERP, much faster than the manual process.
Anyone you allow: sales, finance, engineering, or any other department. Supporting documents, specifications and artwork can be attached to the request.
Your data warehouse, your documents, and any platform you use today to track product creation, such as SharePoint, forms, spreadsheets, email, or ticketing and product tools. It builds the final record from all of them.
Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Oracle and NetSuite, among others. We’ll confirm the details of your setup in the first conversation.
Zeak compares the new request with the products you’ve already created, using their attributes, descriptions and documents, and shows the closest matches along with how they were set up.
Yes. Start from the closest existing product, review what carries over, change what doesn’t, and approve. The related documentation comes with it.
No. You can have Zeak build the finished product record and audit trail, and create the product in your ERP yourself. Writing to the ERP is a choice, never a requirement.
Yes, and many teams will. Zeak reads from your sources and builds the record. Nothing is written to your ERP until you decide it should be.
Yes. As your confidence grows, you can choose what to automate, by product type, field group, or step, and keep the rest with your team. You can move back toward less automation at any time.
Every suggestion shows its reasoning and its source, and a person accepts, changes or rejects it before anything is final. Low-confidence suggestions are marked, and where there is no basis for a suggestion, Zeak says so instead of guessing.
Zeak reads the created product back from the ERP and compares it with the approved record. Any difference is flagged and logged, so a mismatch doesn’t go unnoticed.
Compliance is an obligation of your organization, not of software. Zeak is built to support SOX and J-SOX controls (approvals, segregation of duties, access control, an audit trail, and reconciliation) and to produce the evidence your auditors ask for.
You set the roles. Zeak prevents one person from holding more than one of them on the same request (for example, requester and approver), and logs any attempt.
The record is append-only: changes are added, not overwritten, so history stays intact. Retention periods are configurable.
Teams in regulated industries often start with Zeak reading and advising, with a person approving each step. Signature and record controls, and validation documentation, can be configured to support your regulations; starting read-only can reduce validation scope.
Keep it. Zeak can sit alongside your current workflow and add what it doesn’t do: similar-product reuse, suggested ERP setup values, and one audit record.
Zeak can complement it. It focuses on the path from request to a correct ERP product and on reusing your past products, and it doesn’t replace your master record.
That’s common. Cleaning and reconciling the data for the products you start with is part of the work, and we’ll show you what we found.
It’s designed to remove retyping and chasing, not people. Your team reviews, decides and approves, and spends its time on the judgment calls.
Zeak connects to several systems at once, so one request process can serve more than one ERP or entity.
No. New Product Creation is being built now, on the Zeak platform. Features are delivered in releases, starting with the read-only foundation, and the order is agreed in your proposal. The pilot uses the first release.
How much depends on your process, so we don’t promise a figure up front. We measure your current cycle time and effort first, and show you the difference against that baseline.
Weeks, not months. We’ll give you a specific plan before we start.
Time: an owner, a few hours a week from the people who run the process, IT access and a Finance contact. We tell you up front, and the pilot plan shows it week by week.
We usually start with one product family and agree the approach with you first. Enhancements are delivered as approved time and materials; new solutions can be time and materials, fixed cost, or a hybrid with outcome-based pricing. Selected opportunities can be co-invested with Zeak.
Your process keeps running, because it never stopped. Your records export in open formats and stay yours.