Increase the visibility of ingredients and minimise risks to your business with Essentials, a stock management system designed as a robust solution for small and medium sized food producers. Traceability starts as soon as the product arrives on site.
- Day-to-day stock management
- Stock tracked with full visibility
- Update stock levels with QA data
- Record PO, supplier, expiry date, location
- Add quality, conformance, and allergen control questions
- Eradicate paperwork, double-entry, and operator errors
- Validate stock so expired stock is not consumed
Essentials Traceability System is the ideal entry point for smaller businesses that want to start putting the mechanisms of growth into place. Crucially, our system can grow with your business – you can add software modules and additional hardware to your system as and when you’re ready.

Paperless Stock Management
The stock module in the Stevens software can handle your day-to-day stock management with complete ease. At goods in, stock is receipted into your system and tracked as it moves from one location to another. You have full visibility across the system over which stock is available and where it’s being stored.
You can adjust stock levels with Quality Assurance (QA) data. As goods are received, lot or batch information such as Purchase Order (PO) number, supplier, expiry date, location and much more can be recorded, allowing product traceability right from the start.
Quality, conformance, and allergen control questions can also be recorded at this stage – eradicating paperwork, double-entry of data, and the potential for operator errors.

The Essentials Traceability System is the ideal, paperless food traceability system, allowing smaller scale food producers to incorporate traceability and control into their production process.
CASE STUDY – BOWEN PIES
Bowen Pies wanted a system that would complement their processes, and would automate and give traceability for ingredients used in pie production. Essentials was an excellent choice for them and they began to see results immediately.
Accurate weighing reduced ingredient waste. In addition, the reports package and automated process gives better visibility and traceability of ingredients, including LOT control and stock levels.
Reports also showed any suspended or aborted batches so Bowen can investigate any patterns and change processes if required
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