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Danish Patisserie
Perth-based ‘Danish
Patisserie’ invests in the
latest Version 7 ‘Vantage’
ingredient traceability &
product recall system
Read on to find out why Stevens
is leading the way with their food
traceability, formulation control and
product recall solutions...
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Application Report
Danish Patisserie
Perth based ‘Danish Patisserie’
invests in the latest Version 7
‘Vantage’ ingredient traceability and
product recall system.
Danish Patisserie is a family owned and
operated wholesale bakery, located in Perth,
Western Australia. From humble beginnings
in 1987, Danish Patisserie has grown into a
large-scale 24x7 business, supplying some of
Australia’s biggest names in food retail and
manufacturing over 450 unique ‘small batch’
recipes.
Their current purpose-built premises, established
in 1995, has the production and logistics capacity
to meet every need. They are conveniently located
adjacent to major transport routes and just
minutes from Perth Airport. Danish Patisserie
pride themselves with the quality of their products
and hold HACCP and Halal accreditations. Their
product range is designed to meet all common
catering needs and also bake to order for contract
clients. With recent food traceability scares
affecting thousands of Australian food companies
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Product consistency, food
quality and ingredient recall
traceability is paramount to us
all at Danish Patisserie and our
customers...
Ben Allen, Managing Director, Danish Patisserie
(all food processing facilities) - food companies
like Danish Patisserie are faced with a choice as
to how to address the traceability legislation from
the incoming raw ingredients of products to their
mixing, batching & blending process, through to
the labeling of finished and repackaged goods. This
can be an expensive and brand damaging problem
to address if companies take the traditional and
inadequate “paper-trail” route.
Danish Patisserie’s Management Team looked at
traceability in a positive light and the company’s
Managing Director, Ben Allen comments on his
approach to the problem “product consistency,
food quality and ingredient recall traceability
is paramount to us all at Danish Patisserie and
our customers. We are always exploring new
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techniques and systems available to ensure
that not only are we leading the industry in this
area but we are delivering the safest and most
consistent products available.”
Danish Patisserie decided to partner up
with Stevens Group Ltd and their Australian
representatives, Wedderburn Scales. Stevens
Group pride themselves on their flexible approach
to food traceability solutions and select only
practical and well proven software and hardware
to generate an ROI for their customers.
This combination of experience from Stevens
Group Ltd combined with the drive and enthusiasm
for production efficiency from Danish Patisserie,
has produced a remarkable traceability system
which complies with even the most stringent
legislations while delivering an ROI through
improved yield at the Quality Control Points such
as recipe weighing and finished product portion
control.
The “Vantage” Traceability Solution is a
combination of hardware and software modules
providing seamless control to the production
floor where ingredients are weighed (to form
their finished product range of, Cakes, Morning
Goods, Savory products and also Bread (to name a
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We are always exploring
new techniques and systems
available to ensure that not only are
we leading the industry in this area
but we are delivering the safest and
most consistent products available...
Ben Allen, Managing Director, Danish Patisserie
few!), which are then shipped to customers with
fully traceable batch numbers. All incoming raw
materials are booked in at Goods Inwards onto the
Stevens Stock Control module and allocated to
precise locations within the site giving “real time”
stock levels preventing stock shortages before
commencing production.
When the daily production requirements have
been established, the pick list for daily inventory
can be generated and then 2 x Vantage Terminals
with wireless barcode readers which have been
installed to issue inventory into the two distinct
areas production facilities ensuring accuracy
of ingredient traceability. The daily production
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requirements are entered into the Vantage
management software. This schedule provides the
4 x “Vantage MonoScale” shop floor adjustable
height workstations with information relating to
production orders, delivery dates; items ordered
and pulled inventory lot numbers to deduct from.
The workstations take the form of touch screen
“Vantage” production line Terminals connected to
heavy duty platform scales.
When the operator selects the relevant production
order from the “Vantage” touch screen display,
it details how many batches of a particular
product have been scheduled. Each formula
is then weighed to a target weight (forcing the
Operator to weigh accurately and work to weight
tolerances set by management). Only when
each element of the formula is exactly within
the management set weighing tolerances will
the system allow the operator to progress to the
next ingredient ensuring product consistency is
always maintained. All ingredient lot codes are
recorded at this point for full traceability. As
many of the formulations have “blends within
blends” the system is configured to allow for a
multi level recipe structure providing traceability
across the “submixes” which are combined to
form the finished product. Being based on the
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The reporting package has
the ability to pinpoint which
Lot Numbers have been delivered
to which customers and when - all in
real time...
well proven “Vantage” traceability system, the
reporting package has the ability to pinpoint
which Lot Numbers have been delivered to which
customers and when - all in real time. Simply enter
the Lot Number into the PC and it will generate
an “ingredient dispatch” report giving emergency
contact details in the event of a product recall.
The reports package also enables visibility of
operator performance, production throughput,
and production yield while generating no additional
workload for the site staff.
Ben Allen comments on the “Vantage” System
“We needed a traceability system which collected
its data from real events on the production floor.
Stevens Group have provided us with a product
which we have taken from an initial discussion to a
working solution within a rapid timeframe by using
proven ‘building blocks’ of traceability.
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The combination of
experience from Stevens
Group combined with the drive
and enthusiasm for production
efficiency from Danish Patisserie,
has produced a remarkable
traceability system which complies
with even the most stringent
legislations while delivering an ROI
through improved yield...
The system went live in August 2009 and it is well
on its way to delivering maximum value to our
company as the implementation moves forward.
Above all, the system is simple to use, easy to
modify and generally popular with my team.
The system provides traceability to comply with
the most stringent food safety legislation and
enables our process to score highly with the
retailers requiring traceability.”
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To find out how Contact Stevens Group - Leaders
in Weighing & Traceability Solutions - can help
you and your business, please contact us for a no
obligation consultation:
Stevens Group Ltd
Greenbank Technology Park, Challenge Way,
Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 5QB
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+44 (0) 1254 685200
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