Lot traceability software for manufacturing: track every ingredient, every batch, every step — from supplier to shelf.
NutraSoft's traceability module is purpose-built for small to large food and beverage manufacturers that need real-time visibility, compliance-ready audit trails, and recall preparedness. NutraSoft scales with your business, so you won't need a new system as you grow.
Bottled water, tortilla chips, sauces, frozen meals. Every food category has the same baseline requirement: when something goes wrong, you need to know which lots, which suppliers, and which customers were touched. That's what food traceability software is for — lot traceability software built for manufacturers, from receiving to shipping, with automated food safety traceability on every lot.
NutraSoft makes it effortless by automating your lot tracking, linking it to your production, inventory, sales, and quality control workflows.
Track every ingredient from supplier to shelf with complete visibility and control.
Meet HACCP, SQF, GMP, and FSMA requirements with automated documentation.
Gain real-time visibility across your entire production and supply chain.
Record the supplier's lot number on every receipt, and production lots, including WIP (Work in Progress) sub-recipe batches and finished goods, are numbered automatically. Maintain a digital chain of custody that connects suppliers, ingredients, production runs, packaging, and outbound shipments.
View exactly which raw materials were used in which products, batches, or customer orders. Eliminate the guesswork with multi-level recipe tracing, even in nested or by-product-based formulations.
Generate a full end-to-end lot traceability report in seconds, forward or backward, as a PDF or Excel file. Find the lot by product, lot number, location or date, so auditors get the trail they ask for without you spending the night in a binder room.
On the Enterprise plan, QC checkpoints, HACCP deviations and corrective actions link directly to the affected lots. Identify affected inventory instantly in a mock or real recall, and a real recall freezes it.
On the Enterprise plan, run mock recalls on live data without freezing stock. Each drill produces a timed evidence package for regulators, auditors, or internal stakeholders.
Print GS1-128 lot labels at receiving, with the lot and expiry in the barcode, on your Zebra label printer or preferred device. Supports GS1-standard barcoding and lot-sensitive expiry tracking.
NutraSoft's traceability runs on the tools your plant already uses: desktops in the office, tablets at the line, phones in the warehouse. The platform connects with:
Every step in your production process is tracked and linked, creating an unbreakable chain of traceability:
Lot numbers assigned and supplier information captured
Recipes linked to specific ingredient lots
Production runs tracked with real-time lot consumption
QC checkpoints linked to specific lots and batches
Finished goods tagged with traceable lot information
Customer orders linked to specific product lots
NutraSoft helps you stay ahead of audits and certifications:
Traceability software earns its keep on the worst day, not the average one. These are the questions a withdrawal, a customer complaint or an FDA request puts to your records, and how NutraSoft answers them.
In the Enterprise recall console, name the trigger and the suspect lot, and the affected set assembles from forward genealogy instead of a spreadsheet reconstruction. Because a lot moves through transfers as well as transformations, a trace on lot id alone loses the transfer siblings; NutraSoft follows both paths, so the scope you get is the real one.
Every finished lot carries its shipping history, so the list of affected customers, orders and quantities falls out of the same query that established scope. There is no second reconciliation against the sales system, because it is the same system.
FSMA 204 gives you 24 hours to hand the FDA a sortable electronic spreadsheet. NutraSoft records the lot, quantity, date and supplier or customer on every receipt, batch and shipment as it happens, and the trace exports to Excel, so that file starts from records you already have.
On the Enterprise plan, mock recalls run against live data on a measured clock, and the result is retained as audit evidence. A drill never freezes stock; a real recall does. Auditors ask for the drill records, and they are already there.
Most regulations ask you to know your immediate supplier and your immediate customer. That is the legal minimum, and it is not what saves you during an incident. If a raw material lot turns out to be contaminated, one-up-one-back tells you who sold it to you. It does not tell you which of last month's production runs used it, what those runs became after blending and repacking, or which of the resulting finished lots are still sitting in a distributor's warehouse.
Answering that takes lot genealogy: a record of every transformation, where inputs became outputs and quantities were split, merged or reworked. NutraSoft builds that genealogy as production happens rather than as a reporting layer bolted on afterwards, so a backward trace from a finished lot reaches every ingredient lot that contributed to it, and a forward trace from an ingredient reaches every finished lot and shipment it touched.
The practical test is simple. Pick a raw material lot you received three months ago and ask where it ended up. If the answer takes a day of spreadsheet work, your traceability is a filing system. If it takes a query, it is a control.
Instant access to complete traceability data when you need it most
Maintain audit-ready documentation at all times
Real-time insights into your entire production process
Demonstrate your commitment to food safety and quality
Preparing for SQF certification, refining your recall procedure, or just wanting clearer visibility into what's moving through the plant: NutraSoft brings the food traceability software enterprise systems offer to small to large food manufacturers, and it scales as you grow.
Direct answers to what food and beverage manufacturers ask about lot traceability, recalls, and FSMA 204.
Food traceability software records the movement of every lot through your plant — from the ingredient you receive, through the batch it becomes, to the customer who receives it. Instead of reconstructing that chain from paper logs and spreadsheets, NutraSoft builds the audit trail automatically as your team receives, produces, and ships, so a forward or backward trace is a report you run rather than a week of detective work.
Farm-to-shelf traceability means every link in the chain is connected: the supplier and farm lot, the receiving record, the production batch, the finished-goods lot, and the customer shipment. NutraSoft links these steps on a single lot record, so you can answer where an ingredient came from and where it ended up — in both directions, without leaving the platform.
Look at three things: whether traceability is captured automatically or depends on staff remembering to log it; whether it connects to production, inventory, and sales rather than sitting in a silo; and how fast it produces a recall report under audit pressure. NutraSoft is built for small to large food and beverage manufacturers on all three — traceability is a by-product of normal work, not an extra data-entry job.
At receiving, you record the supplier's lot number and expiry date against the purchase order, and NutraSoft prints a GS1-128 label for the lot. When that lot enters production, it records the quantity consumed, the recipe, and the finished-goods lot it created. Every shipment then links that finished lot to a customer order, giving you complete batch and lot tracking across the plant — for Canadian CFIA and US FDA operations alike.
It is automated. Traceability is captured from the receipts, production steps and shipments your team already records, so there is no parallel logbook to maintain. Automated food traceability matters because manual records are where traces break — the one lot nobody wrote down is the one the auditor asks about.
It covers the traceability core. NutraSoft records the lot code, quantity, date and supplier or customer, core Key Data Elements (KDEs), at receiving, transforming and shipping, the Critical Tracking Events (CTEs) FSMA 204 names, and holds the one-step-forward, one-step-back trace CFIA expects from Canadian manufacturers. The trace exports to PDF or Excel, so an FDA or CFIA request becomes a report you run, not a fire drill.
Yes. The same lot engine runs bakery traceability, beverage traceability, meat and seafood processing, and spice or ingredient blending — what changes is the recipe and the units, not the traceability model. Catch-weight, product allergens, and shelf-life tracking are handled natively, so category-specific rules do not require workarounds.
Seconds, not days. Select the affected lot and NutraSoft resolves every upstream ingredient lot and every downstream invoice and customer, then prints the trace as a PDF or Excel file and exports the affected-customer list. On the Enterprise plan, mock recalls for SQF and BRC drills run the same trace without freezing stock.
NutraSoft brings the kind of traceability enterprise systems offer to small to large food manufacturers, without the complexity or cost. Preparing for SQF certification, refining your recall procedure, or just wanting clearer visibility into operations: it is the same platform.
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