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Digital Transformation of Quality, Compliance, and Automation With Plant Management Software

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Quality and compliance issues are quite common when manual processes and activities are employed. With manual data entry into spreadsheets, it is estimated that the probability of a human error is between 18% and 40%. Food safety compliance software can turn these numbers around fairly quickly and streamline your processes at the same time.

The Need For Plant Management Software:
Challenges Faced by The Meat Industry

Quality deviations and compliance violations that have been recorded manually take time to understand. This time lag can lead to a further reduction in quality and even non-compliance. The time lost between identifying non-compliance incidents and reporting them is often so much that it gets too late to assign appropriate corrective action to be taken.
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It’s cumbersome and extremely time-consuming to sift through mountains of paperwork to be able to compile relevant documents to submit for essential audits. This also always keeps the management on edge about any IIC or audit visit because they know they will have to spend a considerable amount of time simply preparing for the audit, and it will be even worse if some documents are lost.
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It’s difficult to control hazard management processes and compliance procedures because of a lack of communication because of manual processes. It’s also difficult to keep up with evolving USDA regulations and protocols, which leads to further gaps in hazard management. It is difficult to take decisions on time because the management is not aware of any accidents that occur until it is already too late.
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Manually updating processes and forms can take up a lot of time and may even lead to a reduction in quality and even compliance issues because compliance has a time frame. Delays like these can lead to non-compliance. With paper-based processes, the forms have to be manually updated and then re-printed before being sent out to various locations and facilities physically, which takes time and effort.
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Digitize Your Quality & Compliance Processes With a Plant Management Software

Automate your quality and compliance processes by digitizing quality control forms and compliance checklists with the help of food safety compliance software. Our digital solution helps you ensure that you stay updated with the latest compliance protocols with the tap of a button. Going digital minimizes the time lag you face in identifying quality deviations, reporting them, and taking action. They automate incident escalation and reporting for you so that you are able to take corrective action in real-time and even before time with preventive and predictive maintenance.

Food quality management software also ensures that you can capture and store all your data in one place so that when you have a compliance audit, you are able to access all the relevant information with just a few taps from wherever you may be. This way, you can focus on your business and not worry about the next IIC visit all the time.

How Does Plant Management Software Benefit You?

Compliance and quality are critical elements when it comes to the meat industry. Needless to say, contaminated meat or meat from a diseased animal can result in serious consequences for someone who has consumed it. This is why it is important for meat production to follow certain standards and abide by the necessary regulations for the final product to be safe and fit for consumption. Most food and beverage production companies have to follow HACCP protocols and get certified to be able to market and sell their final product. Food safety compliance software comes to the rescue here because it helps solve the many compliance challenges faced by the meat production and packing industry. Here are some ways that food quality management software can benefit you:
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Case Studies

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  • About Customer

    Progressive Beef is the most comprehensive farm-to-fork quality assurance program that has certified nearly 6 million cattle to ensure food safety and sustainability in the industry.

  • The Challenge

    Progressive Beef was using manual and paper-based processes of performing audits, tracking field workers’ performance and following SOPs, which were reactive in nature and time-consuming.

  • The Need

    Progressive Beef wanted to digitize their operations such as helping workers, program managers, and auditors to track feedlots’ productivity in real time and make day-to-day tasks paperless.

  • The Solution

    A cross-platform mobile app, desktop browser, and an admin web app were developed to automate data entry processes and perform compliance audits smoothly. The solution supported corrective action notifications and offline support, reducing human error and time to perform tasks.

  • Results

    The solution helped feedlot managers to take timely and accurate actions by going paperless. The overall increased efficiency helped them increase no of feed yards to 83.

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  • About Customer 

    Vytelle performs in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures and provides individual animal data capturing systems to feedlots and seedstocks having revenue of $19 million.

  • The Challenge

    Vytelle customers had a legacy desktop-based app that was complex and resulted in low adoption rates. The customers were providing trial specific data and other information via alternative mediums taking up to 30 days, making procedures slow and cumbersome.

  • The Need

    As a leading data provider in the industry, vytelle was looking to move its data-interaction with its customers to a responsive web app that helps them share reports and trial data by increasing system adoption rate and eliminating manual procedures.

  • The Solution

    A responsive web app developed seamless data sharing and communication network among vytelle and its customers. Digitizing and automating feedlot activities like pen management, animal flagging, animal management made vytelle customers more aware and responsive.

  • Results

    The web app adoption reduced customer response time by improving the UI/UX and other features. It helped vytelle customers produce more efficient, high performing, and low-RFI seedstock.

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  • About Customer

    Superior Farms, founded in 1964 and made up of more than 1,000 American family ranchers, is North America’s top lamb processing plant.

  • Challenge

    With ever-growing business, scalability with siloed data could no longer contribute to operational efficiency for the firm. Conventional ways of keeping records across the business cycle were cumbersome and unconsolidated, hampering day-to-day activities.

  • The Need

    They needed a complete solution that automates, streamlines, and provides an up-to-date and integrated view of the business processes starting from breeding to distribution management.

  • The Solution

    AgriERP powered with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain improved business process from master planning to dispatch & shipments. The solution-eliminated paper based siloed data and provided a consolidated vie

  • Results

    AgriERP enabled managers to have instant access to information to track inventory,  sales, field attendance, production orders, in’s and out’s from multiple warehouses anywhere, anytime.

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  • About Customer

    Vytelle is a provider of biotechnology services to cattle producers in more than 20 countries in the world. It is a Wheatsheaf company that raised a total of $13 million in funding over 1 round.

  • The Challenge

    Vytelle was using systems that required manual data entry at the time of Ovum Pick Up (OPU) and at the labs for inventory management, mating, semen sorting & grading. Getting embryo production and transfer reports required more human efforts.

  • The Need

    They needed an automated solution that simplifies data capturing and maintaining to make OPU more quick and reliable. They wanted to digitize donor forms that could reduce manual efforts to perform IVF.

  • The Solution

    A React JS web app enabled QC techs & vets to perform timely OPUs, update inventory, and allocate labs as per the activity type.  OPU event management, Prefilling donor forms, advance analytics reports, and offline support got the client covered throughout the process.

  • Results

    A custom-built app helped them to onboard new satellites and enabled them to perform more OPUs in less time. Process automation brought clients, satellite owners and vytelle on single platform, increasing process visibility.

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  • About the customer

    Cactus Feeders, Inc., a producer of commercial fed cattle and market hogs, produces a million fed cattle and 700,000 market hogs annually with gross revenues of over $1 Billion.

  • The Challenge

    Cactus Feeders’ existing solution, based on KENDO, was very slow and complex in managing operational procedures that affected productivity and caused delays in performing tasks.

  • The Need

    Cactus Feeders wanted to speed up operational processes such as entering and managing data to reduce time to perform tasks and enhance user experience by using updated set of technologies.

  • The Solution

    Folio3 revamped and upgraded the existing systems to boost up productivity and to enhance user experience across the value chain. The stack of .NET and ReactJs made it possible to perform tasks in a matter of seconds.

  • Results

    The updated set of technologies reduced 80% of delayed time on some specific screens while making users more efficient in managing data. The overall productivity has improved throughout the processes.

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  • About the customer

    Superior Farms is the leader in the retail and food service market. They operate lamb processing plants in the US and 10 more countries, having revenue of around $280 million.

  • The Challenge

    Superior Farms wanted to improve operational efficiencies by eliminating paper-based forms as it was time-consuming, not actionable and delayed incident reporting that risked compliance deviations. Managing paper was a hassle while dealing with the USDA compliance officer.

  • The Need

    They needed a digital solution that could help them acquire, organize, monitor and use day-to-day records to ensure USDA standards compliance from their desks & smart devices.

  • The Solution

    A web and iPad application was developed to automate & digitize paper-based forms to save time and take preventive measures to violations. All 5 departments and 4 locations were configured to have consolidated view of tasks and performance in real time.

  • Results

    Early results show a quick adoption of the digital platform, with over 19,000 forms filled digitally in a span of three months only, helping management to track and benchmark productivity across their four locations.

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  • About the customer

    American Angus Association is the largest beef registry association with more than 30,000 members. It aims to maximize the production of high-quality beef through a sales and marketing solutions to ranchers.

  • The Challenge

    Angus Media was using paper-based processes to produce Angus Sale Books. User role synchronization and publishing books with updated EPD numbers were difficult as manual processes were causing inefficiencies.

  • The Need

    Angus Media wanted to digitize and automate their sale book operations such as filling animal related information, designing book layouts, & communicating with multiple users via a single platform.

  • The Solution

    Our web app automated the life cycle of sale book creation and publishing from start to end. The portal supports various roles that participate in creating the sale book and automates their work flows that drove efficiency and accuracy in the processes.

  • Results

    They can now produce more books and are now able to generate more business in less time. More than 1100 books have been published by automating and goig paperless.

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  • About the customer

    Galvmed is a project funded by DFID as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and they work towards making veterinary diagnostics accessible and affordable for developing countries around the world.

  • The Challenge

    Galvmed was finding it difficult to manually store data and calculate the market potential for veterinarian pharmaceutical vaccines and drugs for various different regions in developing countries.

  • The Need

    Galvmed felt the need to digitize operations to make it easier and more convenient for research organizations and pharmaceutical companies to calculate market potential and subsequently introduce relevant drugs and vaccines.

  • The Solution

    The solution is easily accessible and scalable and supports all species of livestock. It helps users perform advanced condition-based calculations using default market numbers provided or even after editing any assumptions.

  • Results

    The solution helped different users calculate the market potential accurately for specific drugs catering to specific livestock animals. It also helped them make decisions based on the resulting numbers and predictions.

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A Premium Quality Meat Producer

  • About the customer

    Agribeef products are available at America’s best restaurants and retailers. Being involved in every step of the beef cattle lifecycle, the company also exports to more than 30 countries across the world.

  • The Challenge

    It was getting more and more difficult to rely on spreadsheets and manual processes. Paper-based processes made it hard to capture and manage the activities, as well as the movement of the cattle.

  • The Need

    They needed to digitize to remain competitive and manage data optimally across the value chain. A digital transformation allowed them to streamline their processes and make data-driven decisions.

  • The Solution

    The web application facilitated the client in gaining total visibility over the cattle in the fields and helped manage traceability over all the processes from “ranch to table”.

  • Results

    The solution helped the client maximize business effectiveness and productivity for every location and ranch. It also saved time by speeding up the process and facilitated the client in taking timely action.

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  • About the customer

    With more than 650 employees spread across 7 states, Hanor farms is one of the leading hog manufacturers in the United States, marketing and selling nearly 1.5 million market hogs each year.

  • The Challenge

    Hanor was using manual paper-based processes and spreadsheets to organize and manage tasks, which meant they found it difficult to track missed tasks and violations, and even took long in updating the task status.

  • The Need

    Manual processes were slowing them down and also demotivating the workers. They needed a digital solution to be able to streamline their processes and maximize productivity as well as efficiency.

  • The Solution

    The solution helped the client digitize their workflows and automate task scheduling and management. This helped reduce the burden on the management and workers, who no longer had to take care of paper-based work orders.

  • Results

    The automation helped save time and helped maximize visibility and accountability, which resulted in fewer missed tasks and fewer violations. It helped them streamline daily tracking of tasks and helped improve productivity.

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A Leading Processing Plant in Washington

  • About the customer

    The client is a well-known modern beef processing plant in Washinton and has a reputation for prioritizing cattle welfare. With numerous food safety interventions, they take significant measures to ensure food safety and quality.

  • The Challenge

    The existing solution was outdated and basically used paper-based forms and later spreadsheets to enter data for inspections. These manual compliance processes made audits difficult and caused quality deviations and delays.

  • The Need

    The client needed an automated quality and compliance solution to save time, improve food safety and quality, minimize errors and reduce the workload. Manual processes were slowing down the processes.

  • The Solution

    The solution helped automate audits and inspections and facilitated the client in tracking the processes and activities. It helped the management get total visibility over the processes in the fields so that they could take faster data-driven decisions.

  • Results

    The solution helped streamline food quality and safety management for the client and helped them improve overall business effectiveness. It made audits faster and easier, and also resulted in fewer delays.

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A Leading Farmer Services Provider

  • About the customer

    One of the oldest and largest corporations in the world, the client has offices spread over 70 countries with over 155,000 professionals. They help farmers and ranchers scale and connect with wider markets.

  • The Challenge

    The UI and UX for the client’s existing solution had usability issues and made navigation difficult for less tech-savvy users. There was a constant risk of losing data and the application crashed frequently.

  • The Need

    They needed to revamp the UI/UX for the application so the farmers found it easier to streamline their daily operations and manage long-term planning without being in constant fear of data loss. 

  • The Solution

    The new and improved solution was powerful yet had a user-friendly and intuitive interface, so even the users with a lack of technical knowledge found it easy to use. 

  • Results

    The improved solution increased the user base as more users leveraged the convenience the app provided. The intuitive interface helped the user capture data in one attempt and also gave the user more control. 

Our Process

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Discover

A series of brain storming sessions where we assess business needs, discuss potential solution concepts that can fulfill wire-framing and prototyping needs.

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Design

This phase mainly comprises of clickable mock-ups of the proposed digital solution ideas that simulate the actual solution’s user experience.

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Deploy

The final clickable prototype of the digital solution (whether web or mobile), along with a proposal and architecture for the actual solution’s build out.

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Who We Have Worked With

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Boehringer Ingelheim
Agri Beef
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Cargill
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What Our Customers Say

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Folio3 has a very good understanding of animal production business and is an expert in software design and development industry. The level of detail given to the project build strong trust with the team. The volume and quality of work that has been accomplished in a short amount of time is truly amazing. There are an endless supply of ideas on how technology can help drive our business, and I know that Folio3 can help make it happen

Corey White

Director of Technology

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The team has done a tremendous job from testing and deploying our DAX applications to go live. They have also helped develop a reusable pattern for scheduling processes used by multiple workers. We will definitely continue to lean on folio3 for future support of these applications.

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The inefficiency of paper based animal records was taking time to perform audits and demonstrate compliance. Foilo3 built a solution for us to streamline records that allow us manage specific areas of the Progressive Beef program to demonstrate good animal welfare. As Progressive Beef continues on the journey of verifying food safety, and animal welfare technology is key for continuous improvement and Folio3 is a great partner for it.

Heather Donley

VP of Operations

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Cactus is very happy with the progress that has been made on the projects: Handheld application and Market Utility for PorkView and now starting CattleView. Folio3 has also addressed and corrected issues with the current software that allows Cactus to provide continued support for the business operations. There is a free and easy exchange of ideas to help push the projects forward.

John Studebaker

Application Lead Developer

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Folio3 helped us create pasture to publish which allowed us the ability to push sale books quicker and easier and allowed ranch owners to get done a portion of the book to save them cost. Our process have streamlined and speed up. We are able to have more business now. We have been more than pleased about our experience with folio3.

Gail Lombardino

Print Services Team Lead

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We are very excited to see the new PigWise app rolling out to production. When we had discussed the initial idea with Folio3 we had no idea that the final build would look this good. You guys rock!.

Matthew Helpern

Division Owner

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We are beyond impressed with the solution Folio3 created. Having seen the solution evolve from the initial idea to wireframes, to a fully functioning app in such a short time is simply amazing. I’m grateful to the Folio3 team for all the effort they’ve put in, it truly shows in the end product’s function and creativity.

Ginette Gottswiller

Director of Commercial Programs & Angus Source

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Folio3 has done a fantastic job! Thanks to their efforts, we were not only able to bring our idea for the Petzam app to life, but have also managed to get it approved for usage by two leading multi-national animal health companies.

Eric Shank

Founder

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The Folio3 team did an amazing job. They really look out for the customer and try and do the best for them. Very impressed with the final product they delivered. I really enjoyed working with their team and would highly recommend them.

Sarah Schumacher

Progressive Beef Program Manager

Frequently Asked Questions

A food safety and quality management system is a software system that uses advanced quality control and compliance tools and features to identify deviations in food quality and schedule automated corrective actions. It also forecasts what may go wrong and schedules preventive processes to prevent that from happening. It basically helps you maintain food quality and adhere to HACCP requirements and any other regulations that apply to your organization.
HACCP software is a set of tools used by companies in the food and beverage industry to help them implement preventive as well as corrective controls to protect food and food-related products from any safety hazards. HACCP software is basically food safety compliance software that helps organizations adhere to HACCP guidelines and compliance.

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