Full genealogy in both directions, produced by doing the job rather than by keeping a separate record.
Early accessBarcode & Traceability Software in Uppingham
Barcode & Traceability Software for businesses in Uppingham. CubeERP covers Uppingham and Oakham, Stamford and Cottesmore, with on-site implementation and support from our Olney office.
- Part of CubeERP
- Uppingham, Rutland
- 01234 672 617
Uppingham is well within our regular travel radius from Olney, which means implementation here is done in person rather than over a screen share.
That matters more than it sounds: most of what a system needs to know is learned by standing in the building.
Traceability tends to be maintained twice: once by the system and once, properly, in a folder somebody keeps for the auditor. CubeERP removes the second one. Batch and serial numbers are captured by scanning at goods-in, carried through every production operation and consumed at despatch, so the genealogy is a by-product of doing the work rather than an administrative task performed afterwards. Ask which customers received material from a suspect supplier batch and the answer takes seconds, in both directions - forward to the customers affected and backward to every component that went into a finished unit.
- Minutes
From recall question to answer
- Both ways
Forward and backward genealogy
- Attached
Certificates travel with the batch
What it does
Inside barcode & traceability software
The parts of CubeERP that make up traceability. Everything here shares one database, so nothing needs re-keying between them.
Capture by scan
Batch, lot and serial numbers scanned at receipt, issue, production, transfer and despatch - captured because the job was done, not because somebody remembered to log it.
Genealogy both ways
Forward from a raw material batch to every customer who received it, and backward from a serial number to every component, operator and operation that made it.
Certificates attached
Mill certificates, test reports, conformity declarations and inspection results held against the batch and reissued with the despatch paperwork automatically.
Shelf life and FEFO
Expiry dates, best-before dates and quarantine periods enforced at picking, with first-expired-first-out picking where shelf life matters.
Quality gates
Goods-in inspection, quarantine locations, concessions and non-conformance reports, so material that has not been passed cannot quietly be picked.
Recall in minutes
A recall simulation you can run at any time as evidence for an audit - and, on the day it matters, an answer produced while the meeting is still happening.
In practice
Problems this actually solves
Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe to us before they change anything.
A recall drill that took two days
The situation
A food manufacturer’s mock recall required cross-referencing paper goods-in records, production sheets and despatch notes. It passed, eventually, but the audit noted the time taken.
What changed
Genealogy is now a query. The next mock recall produced a complete customer list in under ten minutes, with the certificates attached.
Certificates in a filing cabinet
The situation
A stockholder issued material certificates by finding the original, photocopying it and posting it. Requests took days, and a lost certificate meant the material could not be sold at full value.
What changed
Certificates are scanned once at goods-in against the batch and reissued automatically with despatch paperwork. The filing cabinet is a backup rather than the system.
Serial numbers written on a whiteboard
The situation
An equipment manufacturer recorded finished serial numbers manually and matched them to customers in a spreadsheet. Warranty claims frequently could not be verified against the original build.
What changed
Serials are allocated at build and linked to the works order, the components and the customer. Warranty validity is now a lookup, and out-of-warranty claims are billable with evidence.
Local coverage
Traceability across Rutland
We cover Uppingham and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Seaton, Morcott, Barrowden and Lyddington, across the LE15 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Oakham, Stamford and Cottesmore and elsewhere in Rutland.
Postcode districts
- LE15
Areas we cover
Town Centre, Seaton, Morcott, Barrowden, Lyddington, Caldecott, Glaston and Wing.
Getting to you
Roughly30miles from our Olney office
Discovery, training and go-live are done on site as standard - not because it looks good on a proposal, but because most of what a system needs to know is learned in the building.
Traceability elsewhere in Rutland
All of RutlandHow it happens
What implementation actually involves
The same process wherever you are, and for Uppingham it is done in person.
- 1
Discovery
A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.
- 2
Configuration
Your sites, warehouses, price lists, approval limits, document templates, workflows and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.
- 3
Data migration
Customers, suppliers, parts, bills of materials, price lists, open orders and stock balances brought across and reconciled. We migrate, you check the numbers against the old system, and only then do we cut over.
- 4
Training & rollout
Role-based training so the order desk learns the order desk and the warehouse learns the warehouse, with a pilot group first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.
- 5
Ongoing support
UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.
You might call it something else
Traceability goes by a lot of names - if you are searching for any of these, this is the page you wanted.
Questions
The things people ask first
Standard 1D symbologies, QR and DataMatrix, plus GS1-128 with application identifiers for batch, expiry and quantity. If a customer mandates a specific label format, it is a template rather than a development project.
The traceability, quality and audit-trail capability is built for that level of scrutiny. What it cannot do is replace your quality management system - it evidences your process, it does not define it.
Yes. Licence plate identifiers let a pallet or container be handled in one scan, with the batches and quantities inside it known and traceable individually.
Customer-specific label formats, including retail and automotive standards, are configured per customer and printed automatically at despatch. Getting this wrong causes chargebacks, so it is treated as a first-class requirement.
Scanning is faster than writing a number on a sheet and typing it in later, so no. What it does remove is the option of skipping the record, which is normally where traceability actually breaks.
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Part of a bigger system
Traceability is one part of CubeERP. You can start here and switch the rest on later - it is the same system, not a separate purchase bolted on.
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