PathTracer^® Applications for Bulk Commodity Handling Country / Terminal Elevators and Brokers

PathTracer^® helps you manage your facility!

Inventory
Unloads
Load Outs
Blends

Affordable and works with ALL existing accounting systems!

Provides the ability to upload and download scale ticket information!

How PathTracer^® compares to typical accounting programs

Activity	PathTracer®	Typical Accounting Programs
Captures all blends, co-mingles and turns	Yes	No
Identify inventory levels by all location’s – corporate / trader visibility of specific inventory positions, i.e., 25,870 bushels of #2 yellow corn in bin 103 with 3.5% dockage and 14.3% moisture	Yes	No
Provides forward trace – trace of which bins comprised which shipments	Yes	No
Links elevator to elevator or elevator to mill (intra-company transfers) enabling vertically integrated companies to meet FDA 24 hour response limit	Yes	No
Purge information – automatically drops information from system when FDA time guidelines for record maintenance expire	Yes	No
Alerts when a bulk bin or container goes empty	Yes	No
Captures rework (dust) that is added back into shipments	Yes	No
Ties specific shipments from shipment bin back to origin bin	Yes	No
Captures Scale Ticket (other identifier) on outbound shipments	Yes	Yes

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 co-mingles, blends, coring or bin turning, 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. Not a single case more!

Only PathTracer^® can tie together your accounting software and your logistical recall software. WE GET THE MIDDLE RIGHT! PathTracer^®can fill 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

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

Mock recalls take an estimated 32 total man hours to pull records identifying where all of a typical shipment 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)

Who will set the industry standard, and how high will your customers set the bar?
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 your ability to comply with the speed and accuracy requirements of the Federally mandated laws.
Cost of keeping FDA out of your facility – PRICELESS!

PathTracer^®is your solution!

Capture information to meet FDA requirements – why not use it for NO INCREMENTAL COST!

Daily activity report by facility – see what is unloaded and loaded out
Linking daily internal activities – see all blends, all batches, and co-mingling
Daily inventory – see inventory levels by specific products – i.e., moisture content, last fumigated, and last turned.

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.
Improved overall inventory visibility in your facility

Aids in improved purchasing decisions – get the right product to the right location at the right time
Traces inventory by bin – quickly identify where “missing loads” should be – speeds the time for reconciliation
Speeds audit process from internal accounting aspects – “keeps the bean counters out of the beans”

Large companies must be compliant by December 9, 2005 with the Bioterrorism Act of 2005. Smaller companies, those with greater than 11 employees, must be compliant by June 6, 2006!

Records must be produced “as soon as possible, but no more than 24 hours” from time they were requested. Vertically integrated companies have one 24 hour period to produce records. Example: Country elevator transfers product to the terminal elevator that transfers product to the feed mill. If all three are under the same personhood (legal entity), the records from the first delivery, linked through all blends, co-mingles, transportation aspects, added ingredients, to the final feed batch, must be produced in one 24 hour period.

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.

PathTracer’s linking capabilities allows you to tie multiple facilities together eliminating unnecessary data entry and speeding the process of trace back!

PathTracer® Applications for Bulk Commodity Handling Country / Terminal Elevators and Brokers

How PathTracer® compares to typical accounting programs

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.