An effective tracking and tracing system helps food manufacturers mitigate risks, ensure food safety, and maintain and enhance transparency, leading to safer and more reliable food supplies. This process involves monitoring food products from their origin through raw material procurement, production, and storage in the warehouse. This blog post explores tracking and traceability in the meat industry, detailing its core concepts, how the system functions, and the specific benefits it brings to the meat industry.

Tracking & Traceability

Tracking refers to locating a specific material at any point in the supply chain. Tracing involves seeing the entire history of a food product, including procurement and production. Change ID Control functionality is used to achieve tracking and traceability in the SAP Meat and Fish solution.

Process

The origin class is an alphanumeric code and is the key information for tracking product origin. It contains rules, characteristics, and possible values used to verify the product's origin. An origin class is defined for each process and linked to the relevant material. In the product’s record, it’s essential to maintain the origin class and enable the tracking option, which activates the traceability feature. The characteristics associated with a product are based on the specific business requirements and stored within the origin class. These can include details such as the country where the animal was born, raised, slaughtered, processed, and more.

At the company, livestock is received in batches. During the receiving process, key details about the livestock are recorded and linked to the batch. This information is then stored along with the batch in the system. The characteristics of the batch are evaluated based on the recorded details, allowing for efficient tracking of product origin through the company's traceability system.

Benefits

• Integrating Origin Tracking into production prevents loss of productivity.
• It is easy to determine the batch at any point in production.
• Mitigate risks associated with product safety by ensuring accurate tracking and tracing.

Conclusion

msg global solutions offers comprehensive service expertise for the SAP Meat and Fish solution, helping you optimize your meat production processes. SAP Meat and Fish's tracking and tracing functionality powerfully automates production workflows, leading to increased efficiency, reduced errors, and improved traceability. By leveraging this functionality, you can enhance your production processes and gain a competitive edge in the industry.