Food and Beverage Track and Trace

Food & Beverage Distribution

Get a better understanding of your costs while streamlining tracking in a single system.

Regulations and Requirements for Food & Beverage

Recent regulations for food processors coupled with the need to manage and increase warehouse velocity and throughput is driving food and beverage companies to implement warehouse management systems.

The FDA has rolled out the Preventative Controls rule, part of the larger Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) legislation. The proposed regulation will affect food facilities that manufacture, process, pack and/or hold food products. Product traceability and responsiveness to product recalls are essentials for every food manufacturer.

Challenges for Food & Beverage

Traceability: looking for ways to keep track of the freshness of their products from a food safety perspective and an efficiency perspective.
Accuracy and Visibility: better visibility into the warehouse with a boost in order and shipment accuracy. Purchasing Assistant keeps stock as demand shifts.
Management: track warehouse workers’ day-to-day activities, including the work they complete, and workforce’s performance.
Modernization: Food and Beverage companies are hindered by manual and paper based processes.
Inventory Control: Accurate inventory to reduce the need for full inventory counts, and allowing cycle counts without stopping fulfillment.

Key Benefits of QStock Inventory for Omni-Channel

Access Anywhere

Your key data in sync, across systems and on any device.

Barcode Scanning

Record the work real-time as its being done, barcode scanned, for speed & accuracy.

Shared Information

Effortless information sharing between the finance and operations teams.

Planning

Shift from scrambling to get orders out to data driven inventory planning.

How Does QStock Inventory Help?

Lot numbers enable the manufacturer to trace a product back through the production process to the source of the raw materials used in the finished product. In our example of tomato sauce, the lot number on the cases allow the manufacturer to determine which tomatoes where used and from which supplier. So in the case where a certain batch of tomatoes may have been contaminated, the manufacturer can recall only the lot numbers affected instead of a total recall.

Lot number is assigned when the food products are received in the warehouse. The lot number is being followed through the entire food process until the product is produced and sold.

In case of a recall, the contaminated ingredient is tracked through what finished food products it was used in, where it’s located in the warehouse, and to who finally purchased the finished good.

From Our Biggest Fans...

Since our switch over to QStock in 2016, our inventory and order tracking has never been easier. We love the ability to see in real time how our inventory is being managed, and the ability to tie QStock to our mobile handhelds has helped us shave hours off our inventory counts and order pulling. We’re appreciative of all the assistance we have received from customer support to answer any questions and resolve any issues in a very timely manner.

Since we started using QStock in July 2015, the accuracy and ease of our inventory management has greatly improved. Having one accurate system that manages every aspect of our inventory control (purchasing/receiving, customer orders, etc.) is very reassuring to our company. QStock was easily integrated with our accounting system. QStock support is very thorough and quick to respond with solutions. The customer support representatives go above and beyond to help us and provide solutions to any issues we may encounter.

QStock was as seamless as could be hoped for. The QStock team, from sales through product support, was a pleasure to work with. The functionality and flexibility of the software allows it to be configured to our business practices, rather than the other way around.

As person who has been involved with inventory from a manufacturing aspect for over a decade, it has always been difficult to move items in and out of stock with any assurance of accuracy. Especially when the demand requires a fast pace to support large install/sales opportunities. The ability that QStock has provided in their barcode system has not only sped up the whole process, it has also given us such a high accuracy level we only require minimal updates during reconciliation. For the first time ever, I anticipate a short year-end inventory.

With QStock we’ve improved our outbound order output by 66% and decreased our order to ship time from 5 days to as fast as same day now without adding headcount.

With QStock, we’ve been able to decrease paperwork and increase counting speed and accuracy from 7-9 hours per truck location to more like 2.5 hours and overall accuracy and controls have decreased valuation variance from more than $1000 per location to often times less than $120. We’ve also been able to have more people trained on how to do the work so I’m not doing it all myself anymore. We couldn’t have done it without QStock.

Schedule a Demo

Let us know what your biggest challenges are managing multiple sales channels today, and where you want to take your business. We will show you exactly how to bring everything into a single fulfillment and keep all of your systems on the same page.

Food & Beverage Features

Track & Trace

Lot, Exp Date, Mfg Date, Serial tracking and search.

Work Order

Choose between Discrete or Batch to match processes.

FDA Auditing

Pull up Lot audit reports in seconds.

eCommerce

Integrations to the most robust eCommerce platforms

Transfers

Seamlessly handle Inter- and Intra- Company Transfers.

Adjustments

Control how adjustments hit your inventory journals.

Co-Packer Visibility

Visibility and traceability through co-packer activities.

Kit in Distribution

Kit on the fly or build to stock based on your needs.

Auto-Expiry

Automatically assign expiry date from components used.

Shipping

Leverage over 65 carriers to get your product delivered.

Point of Sale

Push product to stores based on sales activity.

Moves

Choose the most efficient way to move inventory.

Unit of Measure

Order product and ship in different pack sizes.

Cycle Counting

Count a portion of your inventory daily for accuracy.

Flexible BOMs

Flexible Bill of Materials with Controls for consistency.

PO Reservation

Lock incoming inventory to Sales Order Lines.

Directed Pick

Ensure proper FIFO inventory rotation.

Purchasing Assistant

Know what to order with dynamic recommendations.

Key Integrations

Sage Intacct

Leverage dimensions and multi-entity reporting to bring all of your businesses under a single reporting engine.

Shopify

Auto-Allocate and start picking just moments after customers place their orders to compete with Amazon’s 2-Day Shipping expectation.

Shopify POS

Free your retail stores from ordering and drive replenishment from the distribution center for Just in Time Inventory.

ShipStation

Quickly get shipping information into ShipStation, and the Tracking Numbers pushed to all integrated systems.

How Can QStock Inventory Work In Your Business?

What To Expect on the Call

We know you probably have a number of questions about other integrations and industries that QStock Inventory works with or maybe want to see a demo.

Here are the next steps:

We want to answer your questions and understand your key initiatives.
We will want to get an idea of the number of warehouses, items and entities.
Go through your receiving and picking processes to see how you do things today and where you are trying to go.
Learn about if Work Orders or Kitting is involved and to what degree.
Plan a demonstration agenda together and schedule to show you how QStock Inventory will work in your business.

Would You Like to Learn More?

Lets schedule a time to connect and dive into your business