In food and beverage the recall question is the one that matters: which finished lots contain this ingredient lot, and how fast can you answer. Everything else in the production record is in service of being able to answer it without a weekend of spreadsheet work.
FactoryBridge records component issue with lot and bin at the point of consumption: the operator picks a lot, the bin list narrows to bins holding that lot, and the inventory status resolves from the combination. Available quantity is displayed rather than typed. That is what makes lot traceability a query instead of an investigation.
CatchIQ handles catch weight across sales, purchasing and production with dual UOM tracking and automatic weight capture, so a variable-weight item is one item with two quantities rather than two items.
BatchWizard creates and sequences batch work orders from formula masters. CoYield records secondary outputs — including rework and trim — against the completion that produced them, with their own lot, bin, status and expiry date. YieldCraft reconciles planned against actual consumption and Repack Orders covers splitting, combining and relabelling lots with the chain intact.
Run order in a food plant is not a preference, it is a control. Allergen-containing product runs after everything it would contaminate, and the sanitation between them is real time on a real line. BatchWizard plans the campaign in that sequence, and because FactoryBridge times setup separately from run, the sanitation window between products becomes a measured number instead of an allowance. Coded pause reasons mean an unplanned stoppage during a changeover is recorded as what it was.
FactorySync provides visual scheduling and alerts for overdue, blocked and at-risk work, which is what keeps short-shelf-life production sequenced against the dates that matter.
Related reading: batch manufacturing and NetSuite MES.
See lot traceabilityBackward tracing reads the component issue records against each operation of the work order — component line, quantity, lot, bin and status. Because those records are created at the moment of consumption, the trace is a query rather than a reconstruction.
CatchIQ covers variable-weight items across sales, purchasing and production with dual UOM tracking and automatic weight capture.
Yes. Co-products and by-products are recorded against a specific completion with their own lot, bin, inventory status and expiry date.
They are recorded as outputs against the completion that produced them, so they enter inventory as traceable lots rather than as an adjustment.