Food Traceability
Trace every ingredient from supplier to finished product — forward and backward — in seconds.
When a supplier issues a recall, you need to know quickly: which lots are affected, which products they went into, and where those products are now. Doing that with paper records or spreadsheets can take hours. With Recipe Cost Calculator, it takes seconds.
Every raw material lot you receive is tracked from the moment it enters your facility. When that lot is used in production, Recipe Cost Calculator records exactly which finished goods it went into. Forward trace (supplier lot → finished products) and reverse trace (finished product → supplier lots) are both available instantly.
Traceability is increasingly required by retailers, co-packers, and regulatory bodies. Having a digital system that produces clean trace reports makes audits straightforward and keeps you ahead of compliance requirements.
Lot tracking works with the automated FIFO inventory system — as you use raw materials in production, the system assigns lot numbers on a first-in-first-out basis automatically. You get accurate traceability without manual lot picking during production.
All trace reports export to PDF and Excel for sharing with inspectors, retailers, or your own quality team. The lot list gives you a bird's-eye view of all active lots with supplier, receipt date, and current status.
Why this matters
Audit-ready traceability without the paperwork.
A full forward or reverse trace that used to take hours of digging through paper records now takes seconds. When a recall hits or an auditor walks in, you pull the report immediately — every lot, every product, every date. That kind of speed matters when it counts.