Carlisle Technology Solutions

Recently there have been significant product recalls due to outsourced ingredients. Even when a manufacturer’s finished product meets all of the required specifications, a recall may be driven by defective packaging materials. To address this specific food industry challenge it is critical that all ingredients as well as the packaging materials are tracked.

The Symphony “Raw Materials Manager” allows tight tracking of packaging, spices, liquid ingredients, allergenic and medicinal ingredients against the finished goods lot. This ensures instantaneous backward and forward traceability of ingredients and packaging materials, thereby reducing the risk of a food recall. 

Features include:

• Interfaces to ERP Systems for Purchase Order Information
• Receiving of Dry Goods and Ingredients against Purchase Orders
• Formal Truck Approval
• HACCP Data Collection
• Inventory of Dry Goods and other Ingredients/Raw Materials
• WIP Issue towards Production Processes
• Reports
  • Trace Production Lot# Sources
  • Trace Production Lot# Derivatives
  • Trace Vendor Lot# Derivatives
  • Trace Box Sources
  • Trace Box Derivatives
  • Receiving Of Outside Purchases
  • Product Consumption
  • WIP Issue
  • Inventory and Warehousing
  • ERP Export interface

Solutions are available for managing process inputs to outputs, including recipe control, WIP labeling, RFID WIP Labeling, management of plant yields, lot traceability and effective rework management that preserves traceability.

To address Productivity and Traceability Challenges Facing Food Processors – we offer solutions for:

• Ingredient Batching Systems
• WIP Issuances toward Production Processes
• Tracking the consumption of packaging items and other dry/wet goods ingredients by scanning them towards a line number, process number, production lot number or Work Order number, via the Symphony™ Work-in-Process Tracking Module
• Complete traceability and logging of serialized inventory issued to WIP. Who was responsible for the issuance and when the inventory was issued – is always captured
• Product or inventory issued to WIP processes can easily be returned to stock – the system will prompt operator’s for the unused portions – be it a piece count or weight – our systems manage this appropriately in regards to inventory adjustments– at the same time providing the ability to re-print inventory labels for the next time these items are issued to WIP
• Yield Reporting and monitoring of raw material inputs against finished goods by department