Recipe Management Systems & Software

The primary way a recipe management system controls costs is by giving you the visibility of ingredients and production processes.
With complete visibility of which ingredients are added and when, you can understand where to control costs. For example, you might see that adding individual ingredients to make a portion of your product could be swapped for something pre-made saving you the cost of buying each individual ingredient and the time it takes to mix them.

Recipe management systems help you control ingredients by tracking all ingredients used in pre-automated recipes. You can see how much of a certain ingredient is inputted and when. With this information, you can view where ingredients are accounted for and manage and adjust specific ingredients to improve product quality and/or efficiency.

The time it takes to set up varies from business to business. This is because it’s dependent on your needs and your existing set-up. While we can’t give you a standard time frame for setting up a recipe management system, we would be happy to discuss your requirements and the setup and facilities you already have. From there, we can provide you with an accurate timeframe, outline what you can expect, and explain the next steps from both your side and ours.

There are numerous benefits to having a recipe management system:

• Compliance – Store allergen and nutrition information in one place and comply with any requirements and obligations you may have.
• Food safety risk management – With a digital recipe management system like what’s used in the Stevens Traceability System, you’ll mitigate any food safety risks such as allergens or food contamination.
• Improved production capacity – A recipe management system gives you visibility into production blockers like bottlenecks, allowing you to get products off the line quicker, improving production capacity.
• Standardising output quality – Ensure the best quality of your food products every time with a recipe management system. By reducing any variability in quality, product recall is also minimised, saving you costs and promoting viability.
• Reduces your business’s environmental impact – Integrating a recipe management system will ensure the exact amounts of ingredients are added at the right time, product defects are minimised, and ingredient waste is reduced. What’s more, transitioning from paper documents to a paperless Traceability System considerably reduces your business’s environmental impact, improving its sustainable credentials.
• Higher customer satisfaction—Customer satisfaction is greatly improved due to quality reassurance, which increases their trust. In turn, this results in customer loyalty, as customers refer your product to their friends and family, who will also continue to return to your brand time after time.
• Improved margins—With a recipe management system like what’s used in the Stevens Traceability System, you’ll have visibility of all your ingredients and when and where they’re added. You can also see the cost and time it takes to add them, which allows you to know where you can decrease costs and improve efficiency, which in turn improves your profit margins.
• Increased business-wide performance – A Traceability System saves time on stock checks by digitally tracking what’s already in stock, freeing employees from manual audits and labour-intensive tasks. This allows them to focus on more productive activities, enhancing performance management, employee engagement, and productivity.

A recipe management system is integrated software that gives you complete visibility over ingredients and allergens, ensuring food quality and safety and minimising product recalls.

Recipe formulation is the production of a food product that is achieved by combining ingredients in the correct quantities in accordance with a specific recipe.

Installing food formulation software allows you to create and modify recipes efficiently. It also gives you access to recipe data and uses your current recipes as templates for creating variations, saving you time meticulously starting from scratch.

Food formulation software will alert you when stock is approaching its expiration date and has a low quantity level, allowing you to take action before it’s too late.

There are other benefits, too, like optimising costs, helping you comply with regulatory standards like the BRC Standard, quality control and assurance, and the ability to easily scale quantities to effortlessly increase output and meet demand.