Backward Traceability Report
SG Systems is proud to announce the Backward Traceability Report, enabling 100% electronic traceback with complete confidence, now including submix components. As a major food manufacturer, handling a fussy auditor is one thing, but taking a recall from a major customer is another. It can be a deal-breaker if you cannot produce accurate traceability within hours. The longer the recall takes, the less confidence your customer will have in your product and recall systems. Four hours has recently become the ‘time to beat’ but this can be a daunting task for anybody relying on a manual paperbased system (more if you have submix components within your manufacturing process). If you have ERP it shouldn’t be too tricky. Still, it’s reliant on manually keystroking data into the system, which is problematic and comes at a high labor cost, and delivers no return on investment. Customer-led recalls, often termed ‘Backwards Traceability’ can put companies into huge loss-making propositions. Producing and distributing fresh products – ‘pull everything’ may be a solution. However, pulling everything from the shelves is costly, time-consuming for the distributor and expensive for everybody. Companies producing frozen products cannot simply ‘pull everything.’ Withdrawing six months of production because a recall cannot be completed quickly and surgically can be catastrophic and sometimes lead to the end of the business. Backward Traceability Report For this reason, SG Systems has developed the ‘Backward Traceability Report’. This report takes ingredient usage information from the receiving, batch / submix production, and shipping departments and links the data together in a user-friendly format. The traceback report allows the user to enter the finished goods batch/lot number, and the data will show all the manufacturing steps for the recipe with the ingredients used in the batch.