Quality Analysis & Compliance For Milk Management

The SoftTrace Quality Analysis & Compliance Management software system is a fully scalable, flexible laboratory and quality process data milk management system.

Today’s Dairy industry is committed to achieving best practice standards of quality and compliance in response to growing customer specification, accredited standards, and regulatory requirements.

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Complete Quality Data Milk Management Solution

SoftTrace provides a secure, configurable data milk management solution that offers full transparent monitoring of production analysis data. Presenting the user with a comprehensive quality & compliance profile of all finished products. The seamless integration with existing systems ensures that there is minimum disruption to work practices and lab process flow during installation.

  • Raw material, in process & finished goods quality analysis data
  • Automatic in line & at line test/sample creation & frequency control
  • User defined database of test methods, specifications, sample stages and work sheets
  • Instrument calibration, usage, and performance.
  • Assign maintenance alerts and calibration certification reminders for internal and external audits.
Complete Quality Milk Management Solution
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Security & Traceability

SoftTrace understands the emphasis on, and importance of, regulatory compliance. We support our customers in maximising efficiencies by maintaining full data and instrument traceability. The SoftTrace commitment to the highest standard of data quality and integrity has been built into our software.
Providing secure access, logging operator and instrument usage, and providing the user with a complete audit trail of the sample chain of custody for excellence in milk management.

  • Precise capture of data calculations
  • Reporting of all critical data to one central secure login accessed location
  • Full microbiological, chemical, and environmental profile data at your fingertips for accurate milk management
  • Increased security with usage and results audit trail down to individual lab technician and instrument used
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Laboratory Instrument Interface for precise milk management data capture

SoftTrace software has been developed to contain the critical precision functionality that lab analysis demands. Enabling the user to capture test analysis data and sample results in real time directly from the analysis instrument. Mitigating the risk of human manual data entry error and spoiled sample due to chain of custody omissions and errors.
SoftTrace have built a suit of interfaces to the leading raw materials, in process and finished product instrument manufactures for accurate and secure milk management.

  • Easy to configure interface with matching tests results on instrument to analysis results.
  • Alerts for out of specification results to designated personnel within the system, SMS or email
  • Real time automated capture of data allowing accurate milk management
  • Graphing result trends to highlight specification deviations and repeat non- conformances for corrective action.
  • Maintain specifications within the SoftTrace system
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Integrated Sample Barcode Functionality

Laboratories are extremely busy, and seasonal variances in milk intake volumes can result in heavy workloads. SoftTrace recognises that turnaround times for analysis are critical and has developed milk management software to integrate with barcode scanners and label printers, enhancing efficiencies and creating full visibility of the sample as it passes through each step in the analysis process.

  • Barcode management for supplier, tanker, and intake samples
  • Full visible chain of custody on samples from intake to analysis completion
  • Automated sample data capture and assignment to testing schedules
  • Increase lab productivity efficiencies, minimise manual data entry errors.
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Regulations, Accredited Standards & Compliance

SoftTrace supports its Laboratory Users in meeting the strict compliance requirements of their customers, standard accreditation bodies and legislation. The software has been designed and developed to meet GLP and cGMP for laboratory procedures and testing. Conforming with INAB, ISO 17025, NSAI and CFR 21 part 11

  • Data access security
  • Audit trail compliance
  • Conforms to accredited standards and legislative requirements
  • Adaptable to evolving laboratory practices, analysis, business needs and customer specifications

Our Software Features

We Do Dairy

  • Process Optimisation
  • Dairy Focused
  • Real Time Data Acquisition
  • Smart Data Mining
  • Instrument Interface
  • Configurable
  • Process Transparency
  • Fully Traceable in minutes
  • Risk Reduction
  • Integrated
  • Multi Site
  • Regulatory & Accredited Standards Audit compliance
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Bulk Liquids Intake

Intake management of bulk liquids in dairy is both specific and complex. Capturing critical relevant data from multiple sources, such as variable composition, volume measurement, silo and process allocation, load traceability and quality analysis can be challenging.

The SoftTrace Intake Management system is a configurable and unique software for milk dairy management that brings with it the exact precision required to measure, calculate and manage bulk liquids of variable composition.

Process Manufacturing

SoftTrace has collaborated with globally recognised dairy manufacturers to create production process management dairy software that delivers industry-specific functionality.

SoftTrace In Process functionality was developed to fully Integrate with the manufacturing process to monitor & control detailed information on the make up of any batch of bulk finished product to packed finished product units.

Finished Goods, Inventory & Dispatch

SoftTrace Inventory Management optimises your stock movements by accessing critical data in real-time, offering full visibility of stock and stock movements in minutes.

Access to a full range of reports on stock grades, locations, shelf life, transfer, and movement, including purchase order, sales order, truck manifest, dispatch summaries and invoicing

What our clients say...

"We chose SoftTrace because of the systems focus on the dairy industry. As the implementation progressed we became increasingly impressed with the systems flexibility and customizability. We have been..."

Matt Mullins Plant Manager, Mullins Whey

"We selected SoftTrace because of its focus on traceability and quality control, its modularity, its configurability, and the SoftTrace team’s experience in providing software to the food industry."

Andrew Wafer Account Manager, Tipperary Co-op

"We invested in SoftTrace because of its ability to improve plant efficiencies. Automating data recording, and improved performance analysis capabilities have allowed us to manage the plant more cost..."

Daniela Collins Quality Manager, Arrabawn Co-op

"SoftTrace works for IFF because it has been designed specifically to enforce GMP compliance and it integrates easily wit our ERP, laboratory, process automation and barcoding systems. "

Eileen Dennehy Quality Manager, IFF

"Using SoftTrace MilkData we have achieved significant improvements in the general running of the laboratory. We have increased control over sample test scheduling and achieved a rapid turnaround of..."

Siobhan Troy Central Laboratory Manager, Glanbia

"Today the emphasis is on verification and speed. Being able to quickly demonstrate full traceability as well as rapid response capabilities is the key to gaining a competitive advantage...."

Jeoffrey Collins Quality Manager, Kerry Group, Newmarket Dairy Processing Plant

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