Traceability for manufacturing compliance and quality

Traceability Systems

The Stevens Traceability System supports manufacturers with all stages of the production process, enabling paperless traceability and improving efficiencies to help you pass BRC, SALSA and supermarket audits with ease.

The Stevens Traceability System supports manufacturers with all stages of the production process, enabling paperless traceability and improving efficiencies to help you pass BRC, SALSA and supermarket audits with ease.

Traceability system for food manufacturers

What Does Our System Give Your Business?

Digital transformation and improvements across all stages of your production process

Recipe Formulation

  • Setup recipes in the digital management suite.

  • Step-by-step setup process.

  • Target weights are assigned to each step or ingredient.

  • Set upper and lower tolerances for quality assurance.

Stock Control

  • Book ingredients in from goods in.

  • Automatically allocates a unique lot number for traceability.

  • Allocate and record stock location.

  • Use-by date is logged against lot for FEFO/FIFO stock usage.

Process Weighing

  • Schedule recipes for weighing.

  • Individual mixes or entire sales order weighing.

  • Operators guided by on-screen prompts.
  • Tolerance based weighing for quality control.

  • Real-time stock feedback.

  • QA controls and tools.

Complete Traceability

  • Lot numbers tracked through processes.

  • Digital reporting for quick and easy evidencing.

  • Mass balance reports ready in seconds.

  • Meet auditory and regulatory requirements.

Recipe Formulation

Recipe management from office to factory floor

The Stevens Management suite sits at the heart of our systems and gives you complete control over your production process with controls over your recipes from back-office to factory floor.

Using your PC, you can build and manage your recipes step by step, assigning any necessary weighing tolerances and quality controls to individual steps. Once scheduled for production, these recipes are then carried over to your weighing terminals on your production line.

Operators will follow the on-screen steps you have set and will be guided through the weighing and production process – with alerts and controls in place to ensure quality assurance.

Recipe management for your PC and factory

Key Features:

  • Setup recipes in the digital management suite.

  • Step-by-step setup process.

  • Target weights are assigned to each step or ingredient.

  • Set upper and lower tolerances for quality assurance.

Key Features:

  • Book ingredients in from goods in.

  • Automatically allocates a unique lot number for traceability.

  • Allocate and record stock location.

  • Use-by date is logged against lot for FEFO/FIFO stock usage.

Key Features:

  • Book ingredients in from goods in.

  • Automatically allocates a unique lot number for traceability.

  • Allocate and record stock location.

  • Use-by date is logged against lot for FEFO/FIFO stock usage.

Stock Control

Stock management and paperless control from goods-in

Better manage your incoming goods and materials using our stock control module. Use scanners to electronically book stock into your site with real-time data over the location, quantity, and priority of stock usage.

FIFO/FEFO stock rules mean you can make sure the correct lots of stock are used depending on your first-in-first out or first-expired-first-out requirements.

Real-time stock levels give you and your team up-to-date information at all times on your usage of stock. This allows you to make better informed purchasing decisions to save on wasted stock and ingredient costs.

Stock control from goods-in using scanners

“Without the Stevens Traceability System we wouldn’t be exporting, and we certainly wouldn’t be supplying many of the brands we now work with.”

G. Shewan, Maclean’s Highland Bakery

Maclean's Highland Bakery logo

Process Weighing

Recipe weigh-up through to finished product and packing

Control your weighing processes with added efficiency and improved accuracies. Our systems utilise our Vantage 3 weighing terminals to enable precise weighing within allocated tolerances for every batch and mix size.

Once a recipe is scheduled for weighing, our terminals will walk operators through each step with on-screen instructions and lot number entry for verification of materials.

This includes quality assurance tools like questions and answers for PPE or washdown procedures, as well as on-screen prompts for allergens and contagions. Digital reports provide evidence of every single batch or mix that is weighed. This demonstrates due-diligence of your procedures and provides greater insight for yourself and regulators.

Ensure accurate weighing for your bakery and food production

Key Features:

  • Schedule recipes for weighing.

  • Individual mixes or entire sales order weighing.

  • Operators guided by on-screen prompts.
  • Tolerance based weighing for quality control.

  • Real-time stock feedback.

  • QA controls and tools.

Key Features:

  • Lot numbers tracked through processes.

  • Digital reporting for quick and easy evidencing.

  • Mass balance reports ready in seconds.

  • Meet auditory and regulatory requirements.

Key Features:

  • Lot numbers tracked through processes.

  • Digital reporting for quick and easy evidencing.

  • Mass balance reports ready in seconds.

  • Meet auditory and regulatory requirements.

Complete Traceability

Lot tracking and batch reports available throughout

Add comprehensive, paperless traceability to your production process. From the moment goods are booked in they are assigned a unique lot number that is used to track and reference their movement throughout your business.

You can see where ingredients are kept, where they have been weighed, mixed or packaged and when. All this information is stored digitally with electronic reports on your production processes available at the click of a button.

There is a massive range of reports available to make record keeping easier, as well as producing evidence for audits – saving your team the headache when it counts.

Digital production reports in seconds

Huge Long-Term Savings

Save on ingredients, administration and more

You can expect huge savings throughout your business by using the Stevens Traceability System. Consistent, accurate weighing alone can save your business thousands of pounds each year on ingredient spend! Optimised administration processes thanks to the digitisation of your production data can also save you huge amounts of money.

Try our free ROI calculator to see how much you can expect to save by using our electronic traceability system…

A leading meat-free manufacturer saved over £50,000 on ingredient spend alone using our system!

“We now have absolute confidence in the accuracy of our data and can perform massive balances in seconds as opposed to the hours it used to take.”

Sean Austin, Paterson Arran

Traceability Case Study

See how it was implemented at a leading bakery

We provided Paterson Arran with a traceability system to support their production line, from goods-in to despatch. It has given them complete confidence in the weighing data and accuracy, with traceability throughout via container referencing and more.

Watch the video to see what Sean Austin, Managing Director had to say about the system.

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Businesses can implement projects for up to half the cost with a 50% match-funding scheme.

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Traceability System Assessment Tool

This diagnostic tool will help determine your requirements and provide you with a report on what you need now from your traceability system, and what you might want to incorporate in the future.