Labor Benefits Achieved Through Traceability Profiled in Automation(dot)com

labor benefits from traceability are significant accordingto manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in the current issue of Automation.com. Many food companies use piece rate systems to pay employees. Most of the systemsare manual - both for collecting information and calculating the payroll. Oftenthese manual systems require that the employees self-report the number of cartonspacked via a form they provide to a supervisor. The supervisor visually reviews theform and then files it with the payroll department, which has a clerk enter the datainto a computer system. The key disadvantage of this type of system the self-reported production is oftenmore than the enterprise's total production, meaning that some employees are beingoverpaid for their true production and there is no precise way to know who is nottelling the truth. This inefficient process also requires the employee to take timekeeping track of his or her production, for the supervisor to review the reportedpiece rate, and for the payroll clerk to key-in the report. Transcription data-entryerrors are common. Traceability provides production and plant managers a new toolset for realizingvalue and boosting profits as well as addressing labor issues - cost, productivity,and labor-related quality. Nowhere is the impact of traceability more apparent thanin the food industry; hiring and keeping trained labor remains an ongoing managementchallenge. According to William R. Pape, Founder and Executive Vice President ofSaaS (Software-as-a-Service) traceability technology TraceGains, "Managers want toknow how they can effectively reward the best employees, improve labor productivity,and provide focused training for employees who need it. Well-designed traceabilitysystems can generate both the raw information and the visualized on-line reportingtools that can help any management team get the most out of its labor pool." An effective traceability system preserves identity across product transformations,building the pedigree of a finished product shipped to the customer. By identifyingthe employees who worked on each piece and part, we know who had some part inproducing a single item. TraceGains, Inc. (www.TraceGains.com) was founded in 1998 with a 100% focus onPositively Assured Traceability(tm). The company has a patented delivery system-14patents granted and growing-and also is an authorized Issuer of United StatesDepartment of Agriculture Process Verification Program (PVP) Label.By providing real-time, bi-directional Positively Assured Traceability for food,beverage, and CPG supply chains, TraceGains reduces risks to the corporation and itsexecutives, who may become personally liable in case of a recall, if unable tocomply with the FDA's 24-hour traceability requirement. Positively Assured Traceability provides protection to subscribing companies bydelivering:# Continuous attribute visibility for each incoming ingredient receipt.# Identity preservation of each received material across commingling, batching,blending, transformation, co-pack, and re-work.# Creation of a secure Private TraceStream Data Repository which can be used forcontinuous compliance monitoring, constantly comparing on-floor activities withbusiness rules and compliancy requirements.TraceGains is not just about reducing risk; these unique technology solutions helpcompanies turn disparate data into actionable business and value chain intelligence;it turns traceability from a cost center into a profit center. TraceGains customerstypically experience a better than 300% return on investment (ROI), and an averageprofitability increase between 3-5%. Independent, peer-reviewed university studiesconfirm these findings.Only TraceGains provides bi-directional unit-level (item, carton, pallet) PositivelyAssured Traceability to consolidate multiple legacy data sources and reducecorporate recall risk, while simultaneously providing the tools to boostprofitability and cost-effectively improve operational excellence.TraceGains Inc.www.tracegains.comMarc Simony, Director of Marketingtraceability@tracegai ns.com(303)682-9898

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