Food Traceability Software for Compliance: How Three Manufacturers Solved Audit & Inventory Issues

How Three Manufacturers Solved Audit & Inventory Issues

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Dana Baranovsky
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US Food manufacturers face growing pressure to meet strict regulatory standards. The 2025 Manufacturing Outlook Survey found that 58% of food manufacturers cite regulatory compliance as their top challenge, especially as food safety and sustainability regulations become more stringent.

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When the React library was introduced into the community some years back, it was accepted and soon gained lots of popularity as the choice for building out user interfaces in a composable way. The major idea was that each UI interface can be split into multiple different small components and at the end of the day, these components can be combined or composed to form the whole larger UI as intended.

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      <SampleComponent /> 
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    ); 
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As a background to what we are trying to present, if we were building multiple UI components for example, we indeed have a component tree which includes the parent component, which becomes the source of truth for our data, and due to the interrelation dependence on the parent components and those underneath it known as the children or descendant descendant descendant descendant descendant component to share data, it comes a point where this becomes an issue.

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As we stated earlier, for small to medium apps, sharing data across many different components could be easy, since all we need to do is pass this data or props across or down from the parent to every child that needs it. Now this is fine. What if we have a hugely nested or a large component tree and we intend to pass the data or prop down this tree?

React context, a core React API provides an easier interface for developers to share data or pass props down multiple levels deep in our React applications. From the React docs, with react context, we can easily pass data down to the very component that needs it at any level in the component tree, without having to explicitly pass this data down each component level in the tree. This is all there is to React context.

To drive this definition further for more clarity, say you have a particular theme color set at the parent component level of the app, and you only intend to pass it down to the thirtieth component down the tree, without having to pass it down every level until you get to that thirtieth level, but just pass it down to only the thirtiet

Why Traceability
is Important  for Compliance

US Food manufacturers face growing pressure to meet strict regulatory standards. The 2025  Manufacturing Outlook Survey found that 58% of food manufacturers cite regulatory compliance as their top challenge, especially as food safety and sustainability regulations become more stringent.

  • Quality teams lacking confidence that they could respond within 24 hours in the event of a recall
  • Uncertainty in audit readiness, with key production data scattered across multiple systems
  • Limited Inventory oversight, making it difficult to connect raw materials to finished products for full traceability

How Food Traceability Software Solves These Compliance Challenges

Instant Lot Traceability for FDA, HACCP, USDA Organic & GMP Compliance

With a digital traceability system, every ingredient’s movement, from supplier to production to final product, to shipment, is automatically logged and instantly accessible. 
No more chasing your team for missing data or sifting through spreadsheets.

Real-Time Inventory & Batch Tracking for Faster Audits:

Gaps in batch tracking are a major compliance risk. With real-time inventory updates, every batch is recorded as it moves through production, ensuring audit readiness and faster recall response times.

How Three Manufacturers Solved Compliance & Audit Challenges

How Honest PP&D Improved Audit Readiness & Gained Confidence to Pursue GMP Certification

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Honest PP&D was growing fast, but its existing tracking tools—Fishbowl and spreadsheets—weren’t keeping up.

The final straw came during an unplanned FDA audit, where traceability gaps became impossible to ignore. The team knew that to hit their ambitious growth targets, they needed a system that would ensure compliance while scaling with them.

That’s when they turned to Elevated Signals. By implementing a fully digital traceability system, they connected raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods in one platform. With real-time data they could trust, they also eliminated manual spreadsheet processes that slowed them down.

With compliance no longer a barrier, new business opportunities opened up. Now, Honest PP&D is pursuing GMP certification to expand into supplement manufacturing—a move they wouldn’t have had the confidence to make before.

For the full story, check out this post:  Honest PP&D’s Journey to Reliable Inventory and Audit-Ready Processes

How Rocket Factory Streamlined Regulatory Compliance & Freed Up  Time for Growth

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The inefficiency was costing them. The Director of Quality Assurance (QA), Michael Inman, saw that growth and innovation projects were being sidelined because compliance tasks took so much time.

After implementing Elevated Signals, Rocket Factory digitized inventory management and batch recordkeeping, eliminating paper from its operations. What once took days, now takes minutes.

With its quality and compliance processes streamlined, the team can finally focus on growth initiatives. On top of that, they’re saving thousands of dollars per week in labour costs.

For the full story, check out this post: Unlocking Rocket Factory's capacity to drive corporate growth

How Rubicon Organics Strengthened Traceability & Compliance While Releasing Batches 600% Faster

For the full story, check out this post: Helping Rubicon Organics save over $500k in 1 year with a digital QA program

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Rubicon Organics has high regulatory and QA standards, but as the company expanded, so did the resources required to maintain paper-based compliance records.

It got to the point where they were considering hiring a QA compliance liaison—someone solely responsible for moving paper documents between departments. The additional overhead was becoming a major operating cost.

By switching to Elevated Signals’ digital recordkeeping, they eliminated manual tracking inefficiencies and saved over $500,000 in QA personnel costs in the first year alone.

Beyond cost savings, digitization sped up batch release by 600%, getting products to market faster than ever before while ensuring full traceability and compliance.

Software for Compliance & Lot Traceability

Manufacturers want to stay compliant and ensure product quality, but they need to do it efficiently—so they can focus on growth, new certifications, and market expansion.

Lot traceability and compliance software like Elevated Signals helps by centralizing inventory management and digitizing records, ensuring:

  • Full production traceability from raw materials to finished goods.
  • Seamless, audit-ready compliance reporting.
  • The elimination of costly, paper-based recordkeeping.

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Elevated Signals, founded in Vancouver in 2016, offers a GMP‑validated SaaS that unifies real‑time inventory, quality and environmental data, replacing paper systems.

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