Overview
RubyFood is a powerful suite of (web
based) software tools which empower food and beverage manufacturers
to streamline planning, increase productivity, control quality
maintain consistency, and reduce a whole range of overheads.
For the R&D team:
- Easy to use advanced Formula manager with support for multi
level formulations
- Compare one or more formulation at the same time as you develop
a new version, expand sub products inline, etc
- Specification management with different levels of approvals.
Tracking properties of product and raw materials used in
development (e.g. pH, nutrition data, allergen information, etc).
- Tracking and management of R&D projects from brief to
Win/loss
- Collaboration with Marketing team and sharing of status and test
results
- Tracking of iterative development (i.e. different versions of a
formulation)
- Tracking results of consumer product trials
- Checking of development products with respect to regulatory
requirements (e.g. Ingredient declaration, FDA/FSANZ, Food
allergen including trace allergen calculations, Nutrition
calculator, Kosher, Halal, Country of origin, GMO and Vegan
Certification, etc).
- Generation of compliance documents and labels in PDF format to
enable easy portability and printing.
- Support for beverage applications including sugar tables, brix
calculations, etc.
For
the
Supply chain and production team:
- Generation of batch sheets and tracking of product batches
- Detailed Lot tracking, online manufacturing
- Sales Order processing: Sales order, Production scheduling,
Material Planning, Manufacturing, Invoicing, Shipping
- Purchasing processing: Material planning, Purchase Orders,
Purchase batch tracking
- Stock based on customer projections/past data
- Easy product recall report
- Collaborative environment between supply chain, production,
quality control and logistics with Integrated Email Notification
For
the
QA and QC team:
- Recording and tracking Quality Control data for purchased and
manufactured batches against specification.
- Generation of Product documents, such as labeling, COA,
nutrition statements, allergen declarations etc.
- Document manager with control to assign and track status
- NCR tracking
- Expiry warning for raw material certificates such as Halal,
Kosher, etc..
- Integrated Email Notification
For
the
Marketing and Management:
- Manage customer relationships via the Projects module (CRM)
- Reporting tools to provide feedback to facilitate improvements
The features and benefits of each
module are described below.
Formulation/Recipe
Manager
At the core of
RubyFood
is the powerful formula management module that facilitates the
tracking of product formulations from R&D, through market
trials, to commercial production. The Formula manager supports the
following requirements:
- Varying units within the formulation (e.g. liquids can be
measured in liters, and powders in Kgs)
- Multi-level formulations (e.g. sub-formulas)
- Multi-stage formulations (i.e. Grouping of ingredients for a
particular process)
- Generation of batch sheets for R&D and production and
batch tracking
- Multiple formulations/BOM's can be created & tracked
against a single product where required (e.g. different
manufacturing locations may use different processes
or ingredients).
Project
RubyFood's Project Management module is a powerful tool for efficient
collaboration, management and tracking of development briefs whether
the R&D projects is for an FMCG launch or for a specific customer.
The secure, web-based system enables marketing people to enter briefs
from anywhere in the world, putting the project on the fast track to
the technical team for R&D work. The Project module enables
Management, Marketing and Technical teams to track the progress from
brief submission, through R&D to sample
submissions, internal testing and consumer/customer feedback,
resubmissions and Wins. Using Projects the Technical team can
systematically:
- Prioritize, manage and track their project tasks and submissions
- Collaborate with other team members involved in any given
project
- Track product properties and record test results
- Generate required documents (shipping documents, Product
specs, etc).
This tool is role orientated so that each team member sees only the
projects and tasks he or she needs to edit or view. For instance
technical team members use the "My Tasks" menu to see only the
incomplete tasks that have been assigned to them across
projects, hence providing a personalized and efficient work view.
Raw
Material
Database
This database is for storing all
required information about your ingredients including supplier
information. Examples of properties or specifications you can
define for the database include:
-
Physical properties such as Bulk Density, appearance etc.
-
Chemical properties could include solubility, pH, etc
-
Other Properties such as shelf life, country of origin,
Kosher status, Halal status, Genetically modified status,
Storage conditions, etc
The raw material database also integrates with the USDA database
of 6000+ ingredient and nutrient database and the JECFA food
additive database.
Products
The products module
facilitates efficient recording and sharing of all your product
specifications and other data required by the Marketing and
Production teams. This module also facilitates the generation of
product documents such as specification, nutrition statement,
allergen declaration etc.
RubyFood also allows you to track product formulations/recipe's,
product properties or specifications you define, internal profiling
and test results, market trials & feedback against your product.
Applications
The applications module is a powerful tool for companies who are
developing, testing and producing intermediary products for industrial
or domestic application. When such products are tested in end
application/s (e.g. cake premix), the Application module facilitates
the creation of application recipes using your product at variable
levels, the creation of batch sheets and tracking of test results
including market trial. R&D teams are thus able to build a wealth
of application test data for fine tuning products, producing
'recommended usage' information, and producing application samples for
Marketing the product.
Manufacturing
RubyFood supports FIFO based
manufacturing, Lot/Batch tracking, Multi BOM support to track batch
variations, Multi Location/Store, Yield management and detailed
manufacturing
instructions.
Integrated inventory tracking within the Order processing process -
When a purchase batch is created the stock is added. When a Product
Batch is created the product is manufactured and input material
stock is subtracted. When the product is shipped its stock is
subtracted.
Flexible Manufacture/Unmanufacture/Re-manufacture options. Detailed
history tracking and support for Material Requirement Planning for one
more products in one go.
Option to reserve stock
but differ manufacturing so that it is possible to re-allocate
materials to a higher priority order if required
Quality
Control
The Batch module provides
complete traceability of every raw material lot thereby
enabling
targeted
product recall if required.
For every batch of raw material purchased the system allows you
to track the supplier details of that batch, QC data and
generate relevant labels and documents.
For each product batch manufactured, the system facilitates the
tracking of Quality control data, and generation of certificate
of analysis and other regulatory documents for the batch.
Control process with checklists and audit findings. Track,
assign and Approve documents.
Customization
RubyFood
is a highly flexible suite of tools that can be customized to
your needs. RubyFood includes an easy to use 'Global Options' module
for customizing and configuring RubyFood for your organization. In
addition, we can integrate RubyFood with your existing systems (Eg.
inventory management etc.) so you can use RubyFood seamlessly
alongside your current systems. We also offer to integrate and
migrate your existing data to RubyFood via import. Please
contact
us to discuss your specific needs.
Evaluate the FREE Online version
The RubyFood version we host is
production grade with the complete feature set. This enables you to
trial the software before you decide to buy licenses for your
organization.
The RubyFood development team is committed to continuous improvement
by responding to feedback from existing customers, and also those
evaluating the free online version.
By registering for using RubyFood, you acknowledge that In no event
shall RubyFood be liable for any incidental or consequential damages
resulting from its use. Please
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here to obtain your login.