PathTracer® Applications for Feed Mills, Feed Lots, Feed Dealers, and
Farms Engaging in Feed Manufacturing
Who needs to establish and maintain records???
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Establish and Maintain Records
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Operation Type
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YES
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NO
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Feed
Lot
that blends / processes feed for only their location
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X
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Feed Mill attached to feed lot
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X
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Feed Mill attached to Egg Layer House under same personhood
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X
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Feed Mill attached to feed lot sending feed to other
farms under same personhood
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X
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Feed Mill sending majority of feed to attached feed
lot, but sends or sells feed to another feedlot not under the same personhood
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X
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Feed Mill selling to contract layer or broiler houses
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X
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Farm that blends feed for his neighbor
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X
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Feed Mill is stand alone facility, not attached to
the "farm" even if under the same personhood
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X
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Farm that blends feed, has a little left over and sells
it to another farm
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X
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PathTracer® helps you manage your facility!
- Inventory
- Unloads
- Load Outs
- Blends
- Links ingredient
lot codes to specific feed batches
- Tracks trace elements
- Ties in specific
lots of food contact packaging
Specifically designed to provide the FDA only the information that they are seeking,
NOTHING MORE.
Affordable and works with ALL existing accounting systems!
Provides the ability to upload and download scale ticket information reducing data
entry!
How PathTracer® compares to typical accounting programs
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Activity
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PathTracer®
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Typical Accounting Programs
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Captures specific lot code of animal food packaging by individual production batches
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Yes
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No
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Provides forward trace –
trace what specific lot codes were produced from individual lot codes of ingredients
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Yes
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No
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Captures formula / recipe variances
that occur on production floor
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Yes
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No
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Purge
information – automatically drops information from system when FDA time guidelines
for record maintenance expire
(1 year some ingredients, 2 years others)
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Yes
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No
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Links elevator to elevator or elevator
to mill (intra-company transfers) enabling
vertically intergraded companies to
meet FDA 24 hour response limit
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Yes
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No
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Ability
to link information to feed mill information to
feed dealers
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Yes
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No
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Alerts
when a bulk bin or container goes empty
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Yes
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No
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Captures returned feed ingredient information
when added back into other production batches
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Yes
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No
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Captures
UPC / item code of production batches
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Yes
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No
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Ties specific lot codes of
ingredients to production batches to reduce
lot size and recall risk
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Yes
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Yes
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PathTracer® is the ONLY SYSTEM that provides the ability to capture the
“missing middle part” of the equation – the specificity of linking the inbound ingredients,
through processing BY LOT CODE including packaging, to a specific batch of the finished
product.
PathTracer® provides you the ability to measure actual product usage,
not formula specifications.
PathTracer® WILL LIMIT your liability risk by helping you manage your
recall to ONLY WHAT YOU NEED TO RECALL.
Only PathTracer® can tie together your accounting software and your logistical
recall software. WE GET THE MIDDLE RIGHT! PathTracer® fills the void
of information that typically exists on the production floor!
PathTracer® is a proven, internet-based, proprietary
food safety program, that when integrated with your systems, will provide fork to
farm ingredient tracing that cannot be matched in speed, accuracy or simplicity.
Reducing the cost of food safety and FDA compliance
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Limiting recall size by controlling lot size – the larger the lot, the larger the
recall
- AIB recommends 2 mock recalls per year and 4 back and forward
traces per year
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Mock recalls take an estimated 32 total man hours to pull records identifying where
all of a typical lot was sent. Cost
= $1,280 (32 hours X $20/ hour X 2
times per year)
- Mock back traces take an estimated 200 man hours to manually
pull scale tickets and records linking inbound receipts to outbound shipments. Cost = $16,000
(200 hours X $20 / hour X 4 times per year)
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Who will set the industry standard, and how high will your customers set the bar?
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Liability insurance may not pay claims if company’s ability to recall and trace
do not meet FDA compliance standards.
- Insurability will be affected by
the ability to comply with speed and accuracy to the Federally mandated laws.
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Cost of keeping
FDA out of your facility – PRICELESS!
Making lemonade out of lemons – PathTracer® is your solution!
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Capture information to meet
FDA requirements – why not use it for NO INCREMENTAL COST!
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Daily activity report by
facility – see what is unloaded and loaded out
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Linking daily internal activities – see all blends, all batches, and co-mingling
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Daily inventory – see inventory
levels by lot code of specific products - finished goods, packaging and ingredients.
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View inventory variances
based on formula variations during production.
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Provide document proof for
liability insurance carrier that you are compliant with the law and in control of
your facility
- Use
as a sales tool with customers to demonstrate to them that you can identify only
the potential sources that need be, thus keeping them out of harms way with the
FDA
- Limit
your lot sizes, thus limiting your risk.
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Improved overall inventory visibility in your facility
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Aids in improved purchasing
decisions – get the right product to the right location at the right time
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Traces inventory by bin
– quickly identify where “missing loads” should be – speeds the time for reconciliation
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Speeds audit
process from internal accounting aspects – “keeps
the bean counters out of the beans”
Speed. Accuracy. Simplicity. PathTracer®.
No accounting program or bin history informational system has the capability to
capture the required specificity surrounding the required linking information –
capturing the information in the middle – blends, co-mingles, etc.
With PathTracer®, affordable solutions are available. We can provide
you with a solution that will quickly and accurately enable
your company to both comply with the law AND help meet your liability
insurance requirements.
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