Customer Story | GoodLife Foods B.V.

How GoodLife Foods B.V. Reduced PDF Software Costs and Enabled Wider Deployment with PDFelement

GoodLife Foods B.V. replaced an expensive PDF editor with PDFelement, enabling wider deployment, smoother editing and signing, and easier adoption within the company.

Company Background

Company Snapshot

Industry: Food Industry
Business Challenge: Replacing an expensive PDF editor that prevented widespread adoption and forced some procedures to be escalated to higher levels
Primary Documents: PDF files used in quality control, shipping, and authorization workflows
Primary Workflows: Editing, signing, and file management

Source notes: GoodLife Foods B.V. Adopts PDFelement

GoodLife Foods B.V. is a European company in the food service and snack industry, with 15 factories and offices across the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal and more than 2,000 employees. Its teams use PDF files in many parts of the business, especially in quality control, shipping, and authorization.

Before switching, the company's PDF editor was so expensive that widespread adoption was limited, forcing many procedures to be escalated and creating wasted manpower and room for human error. After the IT department saw that one subsidiary was operating with significantly lower software costs using PDFelement, the company expanded its use because the pricing allowed installation in far greater numbers and the transition remained easy for both less trained and senior staff.

Lower

PDF Software Cost

The switch slashed software expenses, with almost all features available at a significantly lower price than Adobe.

Wider

Deployment Scale

Competitive pricing allowed PDFelement to be installed in far greater numbers across the company.

Seamless

Employee Adoption

The transition was seamless, less trained employees started smoothly with minimal external help, and senior staff found the advanced feature set familiar.

How PDFelement Solved GoodLife Foods B.V.'s Workflow Challenges

01

High Software Costs Blocked Wider Access

Challenge

Cost Blocking Adoption

The PDF editor GoodLife Foods was using was outrageously expensive, which prevented widespread adoption within the company.

Solution

Lower-Cost Broader Access

PDFelement offered highly competitive pricing that was significantly lower than similar solutions.

Results

Wider Internal Deployment

Software expenses were cut and the tool could be installed in far greater numbers across the business.

02

Escalated Procedures Wasted Time and Manpower

Challenge

Escalated Manual Procedures

Because employees still needed to edit and sign PDF files in quality control, shipping, and authorization workflows, many procedures had to be escalated to higher levels, wasting manpower and creating room for human error.

Solution

Editing and Signing Access

PDFelement gave employees a suitable tool for editing, signing, and file management across those document steps.

Results

Higher Individual Productivity

Every individual became more productive, helping turn a persistent operational bottleneck into a more streamlined, cost-effective workflow.

03

Different Skill Levels Needed Easy Adoption

Challenge

Mixed User Skill Levels

The company needed a PDF solution that less trained employees could use smoothly while senior staff still had access to advanced features.

Solution

Easy-to-Adopt Workflow

PDFelement provided a seamless transition, with features ranging from basic editing and file management to more advanced capabilities.

Results

Less Help Needed

Less trained employees worked with minimal external help, while senior staff found familiarity in the richer feature set.

answer

Compared to Adobe, almost all features are available for a significant lower price.

——Louk V.

IT Infrastructure Manager

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