For producers who have to say where a lot came from and where it went. The records an audit asks for, written as the work happens.
Traceability is a chain of records written while the work is being done. Everything below is about the links that usually go missing.
A finished pallet knows which batch it came from, and that batch knows which supplier lots went into it. One step back to the raw material and one step forward to the customer, without anyone reconstructing it later.
Which customers received this lot, how much of it is still in your warehouse and what else was made from the same raw material. Those three answers are the whole of a recall, and they should take minutes.
The system hands the picker the oldest usable stock rather than the nearest pallet. Stock that reaches its date on your own shelf is the quietest loss in this business.
Temperatures recorded at goods-in, in the chamber and on the vehicle are attached to the lot they belong to. When a customer questions a delivery, the answer is a record rather than a recollection.
The ingredient declaration and the allergen list come from the recipe held in the system. A recipe that changes moves its own label, which is where most allergen errors begin.
The checks a shift is required to make, with who made them and at what time, entered where they can be found again. A control that exists only on paper is a control nobody can produce in an audit.
Both situations are routine for us. Tell us which one applies and we will shape the first call around it.
The process runs in five steps, in the same order on every project. You can stop after any of them.
You tell us what you produce, who you supply and which standard you are audited against. We ask a few questions and say whether this is a job worth doing. If a ready-made product already covers it, you hear that on the same call.
We go through the detail together. How lots are numbered today, where the records are written, what your labels have to carry, which accounting program you use, which standard sets your record keeping and who logs in.
You receive a document that states what will be built, in what order, on what timeline, and at what cost. You read it before anyone signs anything.
The agreed scope becomes a signed contract. The confidentiality and intellectual property terms are set out in the same document, rather than in a separate one or at a later stage.
Work starts and we deliver at regular intervals. A preview environment goes up within the first week, so you follow progress in the application itself rather than in a status report.
You do not need the technical side to judge this. Here is what changes on the business side.
What the auditor asks for is what the system already holds, in the order they ask for it. The week that used to go into assembling folders goes back into production.
Where the records are complete you withdraw the affected lot. Where they are not, you withdraw everything made that month, and the difference between those two numbers is usually larger than the system.
When picking follows expiry and near-date stock is visible before it becomes urgent, fewer pallets reach their date in your own warehouse.
Retailers and distributors audit their suppliers, and they ask for specifications, certificates and lot records. Producing those on request is a different experience from building them each time.
A new ingredient reaches the declaration through one record instead of three documents and someone's memory. The label is the part of this business where a mistake is a legal problem.
Which supplier lot went into which batch, and who signed off what, is in the system rather than in a binder one person maintains. That person can then be away for a week.
The questions to put to anyone who offers this work, and the commitments we make on each of them.
Before we draw a screen we trace a single lot from goods-in to the customer, on paper, with your people. That walk is where the gaps in the records show up, and it decides what the system has to cover.
With one product, one supplier and a book that works, a system costs more than it returns. We would rather say that on the first call than sell it.
Invoices and stock live in the program you already run. We connect to it rather than asking you to move, and we check during the review that the connection is possible.
You know the scope, the timeline and the price before you commit. We would rather lose the project at the scoping stage than argue about what was included halfway through it.
Who owns the code, and whether we may name the work as a reference, are both settled in the contract before the first line is written.
The server, the domain and the data stay in your name. We work with access you grant and can withdraw, so leaving us never means losing your traceability records.
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Traceability is only tested on the worst day. A customer complaint, a positive result, a letter from an authority, and suddenly the question is which lot, who got it and what else was made from the same raw material. Every day before that one, the records look like paperwork. The system is worth what it saves on the day the question is actually asked, and the records have to have been complete long before anyone knew which day that would be.
Where the boundary falls depends on what is already working. Where the measurements, inspection plans and nonconformity records are the gap, that is quality control software and it is not specific to food. Where the problem is locations, picking and what is physically on which pallet, that belongs with warehouse management instead. Which of those your project really is becomes clear on the first call.
Tell us what you produce and which standard you are audited against. If a ready-made product already covers it, you will hear that on the first call.
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