Why Me? Why Now? Why VistaTrac?

VistaTrac is so inexpensive and so affordable for meat companies of any size, you can no longer rationalize not having an automatic data collection and traceability system.

• "it's too expensive"
• "these systems don't work"
• "I don't want to switch accounting software"
• "my customers are ok with the errors in my manual procedures"
• "we've never had a recall"
• "our audit results are good enough for us; we can't do any better"

are obsolete justifications for sticking with paper and pencil.

Traceability is in the news. Your customers are demanding, or hinting about demanding traceability. You may be asked about a 3rd party audit, which is a whole industry that's sprung up around food safety issues.

Is your revenue growing? If it is, odds are your production volume is growing, because we all know the most common way for a meat company to grow revenue is to grow volume. There is no question that an increasing volume puts a strain on manual traceability systems.

At some point, you're going to have squeezed just about every dollar out of your production costs. I mean, there's only so much you can do, right? Well, a manual tracking system - including manually writing down weights and lots - is a very error-prone and labor intensive proposition. Manual procedures for data recording cost you money - plain and simple.

Having trouble getting the score you want from your 3rd party audit? Did you know that a manual traceability system can cost you as much as 10 points? And that an automatic traceability system gets you those 10 points back? Meaning that you don't have to be quite as good elsewhere in your audit, yet still pass?

Do you have an accounting package? Do you use it to send out invoices? Are you tired of taking the hand-written weight sheets from the plant, adding up the weights and manually entering them into your invoices? Data automation using barcodes eliminates 100% of this manual data recording and entry. The return on your investment begins the very first day you use VistaTrac.

Think your people won't use VistaTrac? Our experience says that your plant staff will embrace the system whole-heartedly. Why? Because it catches their mistakes and tells them how to fix it, before their supervisor finds out. And the supervisor usually finds out when the customer complains. VistaTrac also makes their job easier (it's easier to scan a barcode than it is to write down a weight and a lot number).