MASTERING THE FT
For food suppliers
May 2026
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SUMMARY
CONTEXT
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PROCESS RESPONSE TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
RQ
Supplier
Complete the technical datasheet response
Sending the Technical Data Sheet
To rule
Complete the Review
FT approved
FT closed
A Technical Sheet (TS) corresponds to a recipe and a format . Your TS response can have 4 different statuses during the process : In Progress, Frozen, Approved and Closed.
The completed FT is sent to RQ - your response can no longer be modified
FT approved by the RQ
FT definitively rejected by the RQ
Status that allows you to modify the FT
Request for revision
CONTEXT
List of specific screens :
Food : Characteristics - Food, Nutritional Information
DPH : Characteristics - Drugstore, Hygiene or Cosmetic, Characteristics - Organoleptic and Composition
Pet Supplies : Characteristics - Pet Food, Composition - Pet Food
There are 2 types of screens listed in the technical specifications:
General screens
All sectors
(DPH, Grocery, PLS)
Specific screens
sector-specific
List of general screens :
General Information, Act For Food, Physicochemical Characteristics, Microbiological Characteristics, Packaging Composition, Packaging Characteristics
FT Status
Screen types
ACCESS THE FT
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Access the Technical Specifications
You will receive an email inviting you to complete the technical form (TF).
Option 1: From the email
Click on the link
Two options to access the Technical Specifications:
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Option 2 : From PLM
technical datasheet answer ” tab
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Access the FT
Responding to the FT
Your sales contact will receive the email; they will need to forward it to the quality department.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Respond to the Technical Specifications
You are the current supplier of the product :
Access the FT
Responding to the FT
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There are 2 ways to respond to a FT:
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For a new product :
If it's the same recipe with a different format, you can copy the information from the existing FT to the new one , to complete and update it more easily.
Follow the process from slide 10 .
Complete the technical data sheet in its entirety.
Follow the process from slide 15 .
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RESPOND TO THE FT AS
WHICH CURRENT SUPPLIER
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RESPONDING AS A CURRENT SUPPLIER - Context
If you are a current supplier of the product , you can copy the elements from your current FT and paste them into a new FT, to complete it more easily.
Upon opening PLM Vision, a data migration was performed for the following fields:
Context
Copy the answer
Results
Eating
Nutritional characteristics
Nutritional information
DPH
Features
Drugstore - Hygiene, Cosmetics
Pet Shop
Petfood Features
Analytical constituents
Properties
Supplier sites
Claims
The current FTs have been copied in the format: year - Empty - FOR BL only
REPLY AS CURRENT SUPPLIER - Copy the FT
Step 2:
In the properties section, click on Actions and then “copy FT response information”.
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Step 1: On the FT to be copied
Go to the FT response from which you want to copy the information.
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Context
Copy the answer
Results
REPLY AS CURRENT SUPPLIER - Copy the FT
Step 3:
Select the FT answer where to paste the information
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After loading, a window will open confirming that the data copy has been successfully completed.
Context
Copy the answer
Results
For the same recipe with different formats, you can select multiple FTs for copying.
RESPOND AS A CURRENT SUPPLIER - Results
Step 4: On the New FT
Go to the new FT (as in step 1 ). Check the copied items and modify them if necessary.
All information is copied except : supplier websites, claims, responses to desired claims, net UVC content, UVC unit of measurement, net weight, AFF table, detailed composition
Context
Copy the answer
Results
FT Current
FT News
COMPLETE THE FT
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COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Context
Specification element: Required element
Description: Explanation of what is expected
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Joint comment: RQ request to suppliers
Spec Value: corresponds to the value expected by the RQ
Value: your answer to the required element
Supplier Comment: Option to add comments to the RQ
RQ CRF Comment: RQ comment specifically addressed to you.
You will find the same columns in each section:
The list of ingredients must be entered exactly as it will appear on the product packaging.
Food allergens should be highlighted .
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Properties
Properties : You must provide the supplier websites .
The target product is indicated by the Product Marketing Manager in the following format:
'product name brand'
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Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
You can find the revision number of your FT response, as well as its status.
Madeleines MDD A
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Properties
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Click on the link to download the document
Access guides, quality policy rules and CRF commitments by visiting the AO
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Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
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COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Properties
Return all the documents requested by Carrefour via the Technical Sheet
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You need to create a ZIP file to attach multiple documents.
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - General information
General information: Enter the information in the value column .
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
The Documents column is completed by the Carrefour RQ and not by the supplier.
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Act for Food
Act for Food Attributes: You must answer “ Yes ” or “ No ” for each item in the Value column .
The criteria checked " AFF Attribute Group " are general criteria containing several sub-criteria.
If AFF Group attribute is checked: select the corresponding sub-criteria in the precision column.
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Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Features
Fields highlighted in red are required.
Features : In the Values column
Required information must be provided:
For the products in question , the following information is mandatory:
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Features
To complete the desired claims response, go back to the properties section, then copy the claims you can make (CTRL + C) .
In the Characteristics section , return to the Desired Claims Response line in the Value field , click Edit . Paste the claims , modify according to your proposal and record
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Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Features
When you see this specification, it means you have the option to add your own criteria.
Add your own specifications in the “Value” field.
Characteristics - Physico-Chemical: You can fill in the unit values according to your proposal and add additional criteria if needed
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Features
Characteristics - Microbiological: If your product falls within the categories listed in the FCD criteria, please check the "Compliance with FCD microbiological criteria" box and do not complete the detailed criteria section.
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Detailed composition
Initially, the detailed composition table is empty. The goal is to enter your recipe and the ingredients it contains.
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
To add an ingredient, click on “New ingredient”.
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Detailed composition
You must enter the recipe composition, detailing the intermediate recipes that make up your recipe, and add components of components if possible (see example below).
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
You can move a line by dragging and dropping it.
Delete the line
Duplicate the line
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Detailed composition
Step 1: Add the intermediate recipes :
Click the “new ingredient” button, name the ingredient and enter the percentage in the recipe only .
The total of the “percentages in revenue” column for intermediate revenues must equal 100%.
Here, the recipe consists of 60% dough and 40% filling.
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
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COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Detailed composition
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
Step 2: For the components of the intermediate recipe 'synthetic ingredient'
To add a component , click on the arrow to the left of the intermediate recipe.
Then click on the small + at the bottom of the table and name it as in step 1.
Next, select the ingredient type and component state from the drop-down menus.
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COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Detailed composition
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
Step 2: For the components of the intermediate recipe
The sum of the percentages in the component recipe must represent 100% of the intermediate recipe .
The stuffing (intermediate recipe) is composed of 75% ricotta, 10% smoked salmon and 15% spinach.
75% ricotta is present in the filling, which itself makes up 40% of the finished product = 30% ricotta in the finished product
100% of the joke
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COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Detailed composition
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
Step 2: For the components of the intermediate recipe
If you select the primary ingredient option , enter the following information in the drop-down menus: place of manufacture, agricultural raw material, origin of the agricultural raw material, and associated allergen risk
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Detailed composition
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
Step 2: For the components of the intermediate recipe
In the Supplier Comments column, please specify:
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Nutritional information
Nutritional information:
Select the nutritional profile . Then, depending on the profile, enter the relevant values.
The Nutri-Score is calculated automatically from the values entered when the FT is frozen .
The calculation rules were defined according to the rules of Public Health France
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Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Packaging
Packaging - Characteristics: Select the packaging characteristics in the value column.
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Packaging
Packaging - Composition : Please provide the following information
Properties
General Information
Act for Food
Features
Detailed composition
Nutritional information
Packaging
COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - Leave comments
BEST PRACTICES
When you leave a comment for RQ Carrefour, highlight your comment using a color.
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SEND THE REPLY
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SEND RESPONSE - Freeze Technical Data Sheet
After entering your answers and adding comments if necessary, you must freeze the record .
Freeze your technical specifications
Inform the RQ
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SEND THE REPLY - Inform the RQ
Currently, the Quality Manager is not automatically notified when you respond to the Technical Specification. It is therefore very important to inform them!
Regarding your supplier response, send an email to the RQ to inform them of your response.
Change the email subject line to: RI - product - FT frozen
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Freeze your technical specifications
Inform the RQ
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