Release Notes December 2025: New features, attributes, validations and system fixes to Erudus

New Features

Wholesaler users

Adding products to Product Lists via the admin dashboard

When reviewing products in their product catalogue, Wholesaler users can now add products to Product Lists via the admin dashboard - this is instead of only being able to add products to lists using the product search tools.

Replacement product by Manufacturer filter in Product catalogue

A new filter has been added to the Wholesaler product catalogue, and the Wholesaler product catalogue via the Wholesaler Dashboard, in which users can now apply the filter to display products in their catalogue that have been replaced by the Manufacturer using the “Replacement Product” feature.

Manufacturer Users

Introduction of HFSS calculator

The Erudus HFSS calculator has been launched for Manufacturers. This new tool can be used to calculate the HFSS score of a product in line with the Food Standards Agency’s Nutrient Profiling Model. You can find out more about the HFSS Calculator and how to use it and access it via the news article here or the Knowledge Base article here.

Access to Gross Profit Margin Calculator

Manufacturer users now have access to the Erudus Gross Profit Margin Calculator, via the Manufacturer Dashboard. You can find out more about this feature and how it works here.

Populating product lists using the Manufacturer Product Codes

Manufacturer users can now populate product lists using the Manufacturer Product Codes of the published products in their product catalogue.

Declaring a reason for archiving a product

When archiving a product, Manufacturer users can now declare a reason as to why the product is being archived. They can select from the following options:

• Error on Specification
• Product Delisted/Discontinued
• Product Replacement
• Seasonal/Promotional Product

Additional contact details on Manufacturer profiles

When adding additional addresses to a Manufacturer profile via the Manufacturer Dashboard, it is now possible for users to add contact details for the below.

• Technical Contact
• Complaints Contact
• Commercial Contact

These details will display on product specifications along with the address selected for the product in the Product Editor.

Fixes

All users

Filter data not appearing on CSV downloads

Users reported that when applying filters to lists in Erudus and then downloading the list as a CSV, the filter was not being applied to the download and therefore they did not receive the correct data. This issue has been resolved and all CSV downloads are successfully downloading the data with any filters applied.

Manufacturer Users

Time out when viewing brands

Some Manufacturers were getting time out errors when trying to view their brands list via the Manufacturer Dashboard. This has been fixed and Manufacturers will no longer receive time out errors when viewing brands.

Incorrect negligible amounts of nutrients on product specifications

When declaring negligible amounts of nutrients per serving in the Product Editor, incorrect negligible values were being displayed on the finished product specification. This has been amended and now if negligible amounts have been declared they will be shown correctly on the product specification.

Wholesaler users

500 errors on product updates with special characters in product code

Wholesalers were receiving a 500 error when actioning product updates where the Wholesaler product code had special characters in it. This has been resolved and Wholesalers will no longer receive errors when actioning product updates where codes contain special characters.

Accreditations without expiry dates not being displayed in Manufacturer Management table

When reviewing Manufacturer accreditations using the Manufacturer Management options via the Wholesaler Dashboard, accreditations that did not have an expiry date were not being displayed in the table. We have fixed this issue and now all active accreditations will show in the accreditations table.

Validations

Inner pack layers with no inner component present

A validation has been added that prevents Manufacturer users completing the data for the inner pack layer of a product if they have declared there is no inner component present for the product.

Kcal and kj values being within a tolerance of one another

The validation for kcal and kj values being within a tolerance of one another has been amended to allow for correct entry of energy values at very low levels.