FOOD TRACEABILITYLEDGER

Follow the food. Preserve the record.

Coverage desk

Supplier & Specification Systems

Source-backed reporting and analysis connected to the companies, capabilities, authorities, and operating domains it affects.

CSB plant-to-group integration needs lot-identity receipts

CSB-System describes a beverage ERP spanning procurement, recipe-based production, quality, traceability, logistics, and a factory-to-parent ERP model. Group reporting is dependable only when each plant's ingredient, tank, batch, packaging, and shipment identities cross that boundary with versioned mappings and acceptance receipts.

A Qadex supplier approval record is not lot-level receiving evidence

Qadex presents food-safety and supplier-quality software covering approval, specifications, complaints, audits, incidents, and traceability-related records. An approved supplier and current document set can govern who may supply a product, but each received lot still needs identity, source, date, quantity, condition, specification, and disposition evidence tied to the actual shipment.

SYSPRO recipe management and batch genealogy answer different questions

SYSPRO's food-manufacturing page places recipe management beside lot and batch traceability. A recipe record defines what production should use; genealogy records what a batch actually consumed and produced. A defensible trace depends on keeping both records—and their differences—visible.

Wherefour lot history is not trading-partner exchange proof

Wherefour documents lot tracking across receiving, inventory, production, packaging, and shipment inside a food-manufacturing ERP. That internal genealogy can be valuable without establishing that every supplier or customer event, identifier, required data element, correction, and response format can be exchanged outside the system.

Codex treats traceability as a prerequisite programme—not a HACCP critical control point

The Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene include traceability among prerequisite practices that establish the operating foundation for HACCP. Traceability can support recall and investigation, but its records do not replace hazard analysis, significant-hazard decisions, or control at a critical control point.

FDA's FSVP keeps importer verification separate from traceability records

The Foreign Supplier Verification Programs rule assigns covered importers risk-based supplier-evaluation, verification, approval, corrective-action, and record duties. Lot genealogy can support that work, but it does not prove those duties were performed.