Quicker to market:

• Streamline the NPD process, from recipe design through the production flow to product launch employing your preferred management & stage gate procedures.
• Collaborative raw material specifications management with supplier portal and email driven sign off.
• Nutritional break down with optional links a number of nutritional databases including McCance & Widdowson.
• Full costing.
• Finished goods specification management & sign off.
• Direct links to your core business systems (ERP) available as well as the capability to link directly to Retailer applications.

     Safer to make:

• Helps the HACCP team to demonstrate full compliance & strive towards optimal food safety.
• Rapid creation and control of HACCP studies with full CCP/QCP/CP monitoring & analysis.
• Full risk assessment in line with BRCV5.
• Dramatically shorten the time spent preparing for audit.
• Hold all relevant team records, food safety pre-requisites and associated documents in the same database.
• Built in reports provide in depth analysis & immediate responses to audit queries without paper vaults.
• Every transaction and change is systematically audited – automatically for full traceability.

     Easier to control:

• Paperless shop floor data collection at control points including links with automated monitoring systems: scales, chillers, metal detectors etc.
• Generate all control point tests automatically from production plans via spreadsheets or your ERP system.
• Instant verdicts as the software compares each test result against the critical limit.
• Automatic alerts to management via email or SMS messaging.
• Corrective actions instantly presented to the operator.
• Multiple language capability.
• Ad-hoc monitoring & SPC function.
• Ability to dramatically impact adverse variances
• Instant & full batch traceability.

New Product Development — Quicker to Market

In pursuit of market share there has been an increasing demand for variety, diversity, healthier options and the exotic to present before today’s food aware consumers. Development departments are under continuous pressure to formulate new products and the majority of their work never gets as far as production. Vision For Food manages your NPD process from concept to production process with everything in one place and, using IT helps to shorten timescales bringing products to market more rapidly.

Food Safety Compliance — Safer to Make

All manufacturers understand that few issues are more important than food safety and it is certain that future management of this function can only become even more rigorous. No one wants to make the headlines that non-compliance can bring or adversely draw the attention of the legislature, customers or investors. Once again with a single repository for everything from your pre-requisites to training records Vision For Food uses IT to guide you through the application of HACCP principles. Paperless data collection for all your control points, automatic monitoring of control systems such as chillers, weighscales, metal detectors etc and full traceability helps to ensure fully comprehensive food safety compliance and quality assurance.

Improve Margins— Easy with the right controls

All food manufacturers would like to increase margins and it is a neat trick if you can do that at the same time as improving quality and customer service. Vision For Food offers paperless control with true flexibility and delivers the opportunity to remove cost throughout the NPD, Safety, QA and Production processes. The ROI could be dramatic with savings estimated at between 0.5% and 1% of annual turnover because Vision For Food need not cost anywhere near as much as that.

Vision For Food: An Overview of a Modular Solution