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The Color Glass Condensate (CGC) is the effective theory for dense gluonic matter in the small-x regime of QCD, with forward-rapidity particle production in p+A collisions offering a sensitive testing ground. In this presentation, we introduce MC-CGC v3.0, a CGC-based Monte Carlo model upgraded to handle heavy-ion systems. This numerical approach extends previous analytic studies by incorporating non-perturbative contributions that were largely neglected before. We then apply the model to forward hadron production in p+p, p+Pb, and d+Au collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. Our results show the model maintains a reasonable agreement with measurements across different rapidity windows, suggesting the robustness of the CGC framework when these contributions are consistently treated.