Real-time ingredient traceability

Lawson M3 Trace Engine 3.0 is designed to help companies in the food and beverage industries improve product quality and help prevent and manage potential food safety and quality risks. It specifically helps companies strengthen and simplify the process of tracking ingredients and finished products through complex global supply chains.

The M3 Trace Engine is a standalone, web-based traceability system that operates with the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System and many other non-Lawson ERP, farming or food laboratory software systems. It helps food and beverage companies manage risk and protect their brands by allowing them to share trace data, such as product origin, transport data and other attributes online with retailers and regulators. This type of information not only helps build stakeholders’ confidence in a brand, but also helps companies validate their corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives in areas such as product safety, sustainable development and animal welfare.

In addition to automating both internal and global track and trace processes, the Lawson Trace Engine solution helps quality and food safety managers continually improve business processes. For example, the application enables users to visualise internal production processes in real time, identify potential ingredient issues and respond to events or problems before a product leaves the production facility.

Lawson Trace Engine also helps simplify compliance with current US and European Union food safety regulations while providing tools to help users adjust to future requirements. For example, the application can reduce the time needed to prepare for regulatory audits by providing tools to help automate product quality and traceability reporting. It can also help companies quickly provide evidence about product trace lines and history in the event of specific food safety events.