About Calder Foods
Calder Foods produces chilled sauces and dressings for retail and food service, run by a team of fifteen across production, buying and finance.
The challenge
“Friday afternoon was reporting afternoon. And if an auditor asked about a batch, we went to a folder and hoped.”
A small team wore every hat. Reporting was assembled by hand, and inbound batch records lived in a filing cabinet nobody wanted to open.
The solution
Receipts capture batch and lot detail as goods arrive, and the weekly digest is written from those same records rather than from memory.
The results
“We look organised to our customers now, and the funny part is we actually are.”
Five hours a week came back, and inbound batch questions are answered from the record in minutes.
Looking ahead
Calder is extending batch capture through production so finished stock inherits its inputs automatically.
