White Papers
Digital Auditing – Remote Food Safety Audits
COVID-19 has forced the world to be more open minded to remote demonstrations, video calls and on-line collaboration. One positive thing about this new norm is the willingness for companies to look at what can and cannot be done remotely. If we said that Food …
Production – the Achilles Heel of ERP
More and more of today’s manufacturing companies are becoming reliant on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems to coordinate and control their operational activities. On the face of it there are very attractive reasons for going down the ERP route. Benefits include a single system to …
Creating a Single Source of Truth for Process Manufacturers
Automating Formula Control and Lot Traceability with Integration to ERP systems. The need for consistent, dependable information across the enterprise is the driving force that resulted in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. ERP systems take what were formerly disparate, back-office applications and databases and consolidate …
Food Traceability: One Ingredient in a Safe and Efficient Food Supply
Traceability is not only newsworthy, but investment worthy. Food producers have purchased and installed traceability systems to track the grain in a cereal box to the farm and the apples in vat of apple juice to the orchard. However, traceability is just one element of any …
SPC – Better quality product = happy customers
With a climate of ever influential social media, unhappy clients are able to instantly share their displeasure around the globe with a simple mouse click. Ensuring every product that you release into the market place is the very best you can achieve is becoming more …
Traceability – The Rising Challenge for Bakers
The history of bread baking can be traced back to the stone age period at least 30,000 years ago. The Roman Empire is credited with creating the earliest known commercial baking processes in 300 BC. To be a baker was an important job and a highly …
Surgical Traceability for Sausage Manufacturers
Traceability is critical in the global sausage manufacturing marketplace. Retailers expect accurate, less paper based traceability and consumers have matured to expect robust systems for tracking and tracing ingredients throughout the manufacturing and rework process. Auditing bodies such as GFSI, BRC, SQF, USDA and AIB …
Dealing with Difficult Traceability? ‘Invest or Spend’ Analysis
In modern times, it’s difficult to find a bakery or food production facility which hasn’t already invested financially in some kind of traceability process (to enable the tracking and tracing of ingredients used within their processes). However, do any methods provide a return on investment …
ERP – Unlock it’s true traceability potential
More and more of today’s manufacturing companies are becoming reliant on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems to coordinate and control their operational activities. On the face of it there are very attractive reasons for going down the ERP route. Benefits include a single system to …
