Bakery Traceability System
Bakery Traceability System
Looking for the best in Factory Traceability? Read about the Bakery Traceability System at 5 Generation Bakery – truly a full traceability system! The Baker family has been in the baking business for over 135 years. Their experience spans five generations and two continents from Germany to the United States. Family owned and operated since 1875 on the west side of Pittsburgh, 5 Generation Bakers uses the same traditional German methods to bake the best cinnamon bread in Pittsburgh. Although they’ve updated their delivery vehicles from horse drawn carriages, each cinnamon swirl loaf is still baked in old fashioned crimp style pans and hand rolled, a delicate process that technology just is not able to replicate.
To compliment their newly built factory, and introduce full traceability and material control, 5 Generation Bakers made contact with SG Systems at the IBIE Baking Show in Las Vegas. They made a wise choice and purchased the V5 Formula System from SG Systems Global (Bakery Traceability System).
Bakery Traceability System
With recent food traceability scares affecting thousands of food companies (all food processing facilities) – food companies like 5 Generation Bakers are faced with a choice as to how to address the full traceability legislation from the incoming raw ingredients of products to their mixing, batching & blending process, through to the labeling of finished and repackaged goods. This can be an expensive and brand damaging problem to address if companies take the traditional and inadequate paper-trail route.
The Full Traceability System is a combination of hardware and software designed to bridge the gap between the production floor weighing and labeling processes and the management team. All incoming raw materials are booked in at Goods Inwards onto the Inventory Control module and allocated to precise locations within the site giving real time inventory levels which highlights shortages before commencing production.
When the daily production requirements have been established, the pick list for daily inventory is generated and communicated with V5 Bakery Traceability System Terminals (designed and built by SG Systems global). This schedule provides the V5 Formula System Terminals with information relating to production orders, items ordered and inventory lot numbers to deduct from.
Ingredient Batch Weighing
When the operator selects the relevant production order from the industrial touch screen display, the system details how many batches of a particular product have been scheduled. Each formula is then weighed to a target weight (forcing the Operator to weigh accurately and work to weight tolerances set by management). Only when each element of the formula is exactly within the management set weighing tolerances will the system allow the operator to progress to the next ingredient ensuring product consistency is always maintained.
The bakery traceability system requires all ingredient lot codes to be validated and recorded to meet FSMA legislative requirements for full traceability. As many of the formulations have ‘blends within blends’ the system is configured to allow for a multi-level recipe structure providing traceability across the liquid yeast formulations which are combined to form the finished product.
After the mixing, batching and baking process the product is either frozen or sold fresh. 5 Generation Bakers has dozens of finished product SKU’s each with specific label formats descriptions, the latest GS128 Barcode Symbology, Ingredient Declaration and a Finished Batch Number which is fully traceable.
Scott Baker, President & CEO Comments “With the SG Bakery Traceability System we can track the path of our product through all inventory, production, processing and distribution stages right to the end consumer. It has helped our business grow and they have supported us all the way”
Finished products are scanned at the shipping dock using wireless tablet PC’s (Running SG Systems WMS Software) which allow the picking and shipping process to take place in a very efficient manner. FEFO is imposed to create automatic inventory rotation, ensuring scanned products transfer the order correctly while depleting inventory accurately.
Ingredient Lot Traceability
Being based on the well proven V5 Full Traceability System , the reporting package has the ability to pinpoint which Lot Numbers have been delivered to which customers and when – all in real time. Simply enter the Lot Number into the PC and it will generate an Ingredient Traceability Report providing shipping details in the event of a product recall.
The factory traceability reports package also enables visibility of operator performance, production throughput, and production yield while generating no additional workload for the site staff. The Bakery Traceability System provides traceability to comply with the most stringent food safety legislation and enables our process to score highly with the retailers requiring traceability.
For more information on V5 Factory Traceability, visit www.sgsystemsglobal.com For more information on 5 Generation Bakers visit www.jennyleeswirlbread.com
