ERP

Food ERP – Part 2

If you’re in the food industry, you know how difficult it is to keep track of federal and state regulations, keep track and trace your lots, manage shelf life, and manage recalls.  Thanks to the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, “all companies who manufacture, distribute, import, pack, process, receive, or hold products that may pose a threat to human or animal safety, such as foods or legal drugs, must be able to track their products and readily submit reports to the FDA at the FDA's request”. Wow, that was a mouthful!  But, it’s best to keep track of your products not only for the FDA, but for your own interests as well.

So, what’s the best way to comply with the Bioterrorism Act?  Consider a food Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.  Food ERP solutions have extensive food related functionality.  For example, you can trace lots, track lot numbers of raw ingredients received into inventory, track the date these ingredients were received, track the day these raw ingredients used to manufacture your food product, track the lot numbers of the raw ingredients that you used to make your product, track the lot numbers of all your completed products, track the date that your product was manufactured, and track the date the customer received your product.  If you can’t track this information then you are not in compliance with the federal or state government.  If you’re not in compliance, you can be put out of business and that would be a real bummer!

Another way to be sure you comply with federal and state requirements is to implement a quality control system.  Food ERP solutions offer automated quality control functionality.  Let’s get real, human error is likely and why rely on paper files stored in those dusty file cabinets when you can have a food ERP solution?  Think about having to retrieve some vital documentation because the feds are knocking at your door.  How long are you going to spend looking through your file cabinets to retrieve that document?  What a waste of valuable time and money. Food Enterprise Resource Planning solutions can provide you with built-in quality control processes.  You can setup your food ERP solution to send you tests results, analysis’s of ingredients, inspection information, and flag unsafe ingredients.  You can also toss your dusty old file cabinets because you can quickly and easily retrieve information with your food Enterprise Resource Planning solution.

Written by :

kristine H