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Mike Cook, Founder,  QTRACA

QTRACA - Unifying Inventory, Food Safety, Quality, and Compliance Management

Mike Cook, Founder , QTRACA

As costs increase businesses need to be more productive by trying to eliminate costly mistakes. They can’t afford to spend countless hours chasing issues that failed to be picked up at the required time. They can’t afford to have inadequate traceability because their systems are manual and too slow to identify compromised batches, and where these batches have been dispatched to.

One of the main goals of QTRACA is to help food manufacturers transition away from paper-based systems and spreadsheets and realize the benefits of running in a fully digital environment.

This empowers manufacturers to be proactive instead of reactive by enabling real time monitoring and alerting. As soon as data is entered into the system limits can be applied, and users can be notified immediately of any issues.

Think of being able to alert engineers automatically if an operator identifies an issue with a machine, or alerting the quality manager if a batch did not reach the required temperature during cooking, or maybe even sending an alert to operations if raw materials are about to expire. This is all easily achieved with QTRACA.

QTRACA is a cloud-based inventory and food safety software system, and although it has a core focus on small to medium sized food manufacturers QTRACA is perfect for any business requiring a comprehensive food safety management system. With its multi-site capability and advanced features, QTRACA is well equipped to meet the most complex business requirements, and empower businesses to thrive in a digital world.

What makes QTRACA unique is that it offers inventory management and food safety management all in one single integrated platform. Having inventory and food safety in one system not only means a substantial cost saving in software licences, but the two functions are deeply integrated, for example forms are linked straight to batches, non-conformances can be raised directly against inwards goods, and quality compliance can be recorded straight on dispatch records.

Some of the key highlights of QTRACA are as follows:

Inventory, Recipe Management, and Production

Gain visibility of finished goods inventory down to location and pack size. Control usage of raw materials by supplier. Handle multiple iterations of work in progress when producing finished goods. Link forms directly to production batches giving you a complete picture of each batch.

Process Builder

Build a flow chart of your processes by product, identify hazards and controls at each step. Mark steps as critical control points, and link to standard operating procedures, equipment, and other items within QTRACA.

Form Builder

Build forms with QTRACA’s powerful form builder. Link a form to a Thermopen to record temperatures, record data from an IoT sensor on to a form, perform scoring for audits, calculate differences between date and times, add tabular data. Or if you already have a PDF form, use it as a base and overlay text, checkboxes, and selection lists on it. The choice is yours.

QTRACA is unique because it offers inventory management and food safety management in one single integrated platform.

IoT Temperature Monitoring

Tired of manually recording temperatures? Link IoT sensors into QTRACA and let QTRACA monitor temperatures and alert you if anything is out of range.

Non Conformance & Complaints Management

Integrate complaints and non-conformances into forms, inwards goods, or production batches, and if required raise corrective and preventative actions.

Alerting

Easily alert users when events happen. QTRACA’s powerful alert manager will scan forms and temperature readings for values outside of specification. When detected, will alert the specified user(s) of the issue so they can take action.

When all these features are combined QTRACA truly offers a comprehensive package to meet all your compliance requirements. So why wait? Book your QTRACA demo or trial today.

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