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Certificates
About certificates There are several systems of certifications within the food industry. Certificates are authenticated documents proving the quality or status of a company or goods. A certificate is issued by a control body or certification body after inspection of a company. Depending on the ...
Stock Keeping Units (SKU)
To see and create your Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), click Warehouse in the top menu and select Stock Keeping Units in the drop-down menu. You have several options for adding data to SKUs. You can read our tutorial for creating SKUs with a simple setup below. This way you will only fill out the ma...
Partners
Partners are all types of contacts - customers, suppliers, forwarders, certification bodies, etc. Your own profile is also added as a partner and marked as My profile in the partner overview. To go to your partners, click Partners in the top menu. You can search for a specific partner using the ...
Tags
You can use tags to organize and structure your data in tracezilla. Tags are for internal use and will not appear on documents. Tags have many uses in tracezilla. Tags can be used to filter and search for data in overviews and reports. You can also use tags to build rules for VAT, automation or ...
Recipes
Introduction to recipes in tracezilla When manufacturing food products, a recipe is used. It can be compared to a Bill of Material (BOM), which is used in the production of products other than food. In a recipe, you can put together the ingredients that go into the production of a given product...
Price lists
In tracezilla, the prices of the goods are entered into price lists. You can create price lists for sales (to customers) and for purchases (from suppliers). Usually a price list is created per supplier under Purchase. A standard price list is typically created for Sales and in addition some cus...
Partner Relations, Stock Keeping Units
When you create a SKU, you can add Partner Relations. You can link a supplier, a customer or a producer to a specific SKU and thereby set up rules for which functionalities are to be triggered when the partner is selected, for example in the order header or in the forecasting feature. The funct...
Traceability
Why traceability? Traceability of food is tracing a product’s ingredients all the way back to its original producers and keeping track of all its elements from purchase till it’s transformed into a new lot through production. In case of problems with a given lot (bacteria, shards of glass e.g...
Retail prices
You can set up retail prices for your SKUS so that retailers know the suggested retail price. The price will appear on invoices. You specify which customers receive the information. The following instructions are divided into two general steps: 1) Select customers and currency and 2) Enter the p...
Nutritional values for stock keeping units
Prepackaged foods must be labelled with specific information. Among others, the nutritional content of the food must be disclosed. It is mandatory to state the energy content both in kilojoules (kJ) and kilocalories (kcal) as well as the content of fats, saturated fatty acids, carbohydrates, suga...
CRM overview
In tracezilla you can find several functions for CRM (Customer Relationship Management). One of the functions is found under Partners in the top menu named CRM. The functions can be used to keep track of the company’s interaction with customers. The CRM menu item is an overview of current custom...
Best practices for creating SKU codes in tracezilla
When you start implementing tracezilla, you will need to create some Stock Keeping Units (SKUs). SKUs are used in ERP systems to keep track of stock levels internally in the company (inventory management). A SKU contains a lot of information about a specific product and has a unique SKU code (ite...
Food labelling
Prepackaged foods intended for the final consumer or commercial kitchens must be labelled with information about the food in accordance with current Danish and EU legislation. Read more about the general labeling requirements in the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration’s instruction or in th...
Ingredient List with Allergens and QUID
Prepackaged foods must be labeled with a range of information. Among others, prepackaged foods must contain an ingredient list with information on allergenic ingredients and indication of quantities for certain ingredients, also called quantitative ingredient declaration (QUID). In tracezilla, y...