Guides for batch manufacturers
Practical writing on traceability, compliance, inventory and cost - useful whether or not you ever buy anything from us.
Traceability & compliance
What the rules ask for, and how to find out whether you can answer.
What the FDA Food Traceability Rule actually asks for
FSMA 204 without the acronyms: the four questions it asks about every lot, and where operations usually fall short.
Read the guide →How to run a mock recall that actually tells you something
Designing the exercise so it finds the break instead of confirming the paperwork. Includes the failure patterns worth looking for.
Read the guide →Lot genealogy explained: forward and backward tracing
Parents, children, and the five events - blending, splitting, rework, partial consumption, repacking - that break the chain.
Read the guide →Inventory & cost
Where batch manufacturers quietly lose margin.
FEFO vs FIFO: choosing a stock rotation policy
Why the two are not the same, when each is right, and the exceptions any real policy has to express.
Read the guide →Batch costing: why standard cost misleads
Separating price, quantity, and yield variance - and why costing per lot tells you things an item average cannot.
Read the guide →Understanding yield variance in batch production
The least visible cost in most operations, why the pattern matters more than the average, and the stale-benchmark trap.
Read the guide →Implementation
Getting from what you run today to something better.
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