PathTracer^® Applications for Bakeries and Food Processing / Manufacturing

Bakeries and food production facilities face significant challenges, not with recall, but with back trace information and forward trace information. Accuracy is key to limiting recall lot size.

How PathTracer^® compares to typical accounting programs

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 exist 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 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)
• 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 the ability to comply with speed and accuracy to the Federally mandated laws.
• Cost of keeping FDA out of your facility – PRICELESS!

Making lemonade out of lemons – 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 lot code of specific products - finished goods, packaging and ingredients.
• View inventory variances based on formula variations during production.
• 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.
• Improve 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”