Supermarkets and retailers are putting more and more pressure on suppliers to prevent contamination; the Principles Issue Manager is just one area where Applied Principles can help in prevention. The Principles Issue Manager is designed to provide a sure-proof method of issuing and monitoring the safe return and in tact condition of all items that are distributed to the production and preparation areas. The automated process removes the time consuming and laborious paperwork. Each line manager or shift supervisor is issued with a unique user name and password, therefore recording who is issuing items and making them accountable.

The employees then select their name either by swiping their employee card or by manually typing their name. The supervisor then issues all of the items that the employee requires from a pre-determined list, the selection icons can be colour coded to easily recognise different items or lines i.e. allergen or high care. All items can be further identified by a bar or number code. At the end of each shift or a break each item is then booked back into holding by the supervisor to ensure there safe return. Reports can be requested at any stage to show what items are outstanding or what items have been damaged or lost.

Case Study
Find out how the Principles Issue Manager
helped to eliminate the paper from Kanes Foods

• Full traceability of all items issued allowing real time viewing and reporting of who has what items at anytime minimising the risk of lost items.
• All reports can be tailored to show what items have been issued, to whom and the times of issue and return.
• This can also be narrowed down to the particular issue station and sub-location.
• Records are held so in event of a query, data is instantly available as to all items issued and returned.
• Massive time saving, current customers have commented that the Issue Manager has sped up the 'issuing' process by more than 50%.