Food & Beverage
Food & beverage (+ dairy): lot/expiry date, FEFO, HACCP, cold chain, producer procurement.
Challenges
- Lot and expiry tracking is manual; in a recall nobody knows which product went where.
- Allergen data is not held anywhere outside the label itself.
- Production cost is not refreshed when the recipe changes.
- The traceability chain by customer and warehouse is broken.
Workflows
From production to dispatch (traceable)
- Raw materials enter stock with lot and expiry date.
- A production order is opened; recipe consumption is posted by lot.
- The finished product is received into stock with its own lot and expiry date.
- At dispatch the lot is linked to the customer — the recall chain is established.
Quality and allergens
- Allergen fields are filled in on the product record.
- Incoming and in-process quality checks are recorded.
- Non-conformances are raised and closed out.
Documents
- Production order
- Lot / batch record
- Dispatch note
- Quality control form
Reports
- Lot traceability (forward / backward)
- Stock nearing expiry
- Production cost
- Non-conformance (NCR) report
Metrics
- Waste ratio
- Unit production cost
- Losses due to expiry
- First-pass yield
Compliance
- HACCP
- ISO 22000
- Food Codex / labelling rules
- GİB e-Invoice / e-Waybill
Glossary
- Lot / batch
- Stock lot tracking
- Expiry date (SKT)
- Expiry date field
- Product recall
- Lot-based traceability report
- Allergen
- Sector-specific field on the product record
Frequently Asked Questions
In a recall, can I find which customer received it?
Yes. The lot is tracked from production to dispatch, and a forward/backward traceability report is available.
Does it flag products nearing expiry?
Yes — stock nearing expiry is reported from the expiry-date field.
Can I store allergen information?
Yes — sector field rules add allergen fields to the product record.
Does production cost update when the recipe changes?
Yes — raw-material price and recipe changes flow automatically into finished-goods cost.
Can I open a nonconformity record?
Yes — a nonconformity (NCR) is opened in quality control and tracked through to closure.