Built for co-packers
Stop chasing paper. Your production floor, organized.
Co-packers juggle production schedules, ingredient availability, allergen sequencing, and quality checks — on top of traceability. ActaPath handles the production floor so records generate themselves.
What co-packers are dealing with
The hardest production management problems land on the people in the middle of the supply chain.
Your growers ship without lot codes — and you're the one cleaning it up.
When a grower ships without a lot code, you can't create one retroactively with accurate source information. That data gap sits in your records, not theirs. ActaPath gives your growers tools to originate clean data — so you receive it, not chase it.
Transformation events are the hardest part — and most tools skip them.
When multiple incoming lots become one or more outgoing products, you need to record which inputs contributed to which outputs. No spreadsheet handles many-to-many lot linkage reliably. ActaPath makes this a first-class workflow.
You're packing for 8 clients — and keeping their records in 8 separate spreadsheets.
When records live in shared spreadsheets, one typo in a lot code can break a chain — and you won't discover it until someone asks you to prove the chain is intact.
You're planning tomorrow's runs on a whiteboard — and hoping you have enough ingredients.
ActaPath calculates ingredient availability against your full queue before the first batch starts. Shortages are caught at planning time, not production time.
Two runs back-to-back with different allergen profiles — and no one flagged the changeover.
One missed changeover is a recall. ActaPath flags allergen transitions in your production queue before they reach the floor.
An audit request gives you 24 hours. Your response is currently all-hands-on-deck.
Co-packers who respond with a query — not a search party — are the ones who weather audits without disrupting their operations.
How ActaPath works for co-packers
A production workflow that generates traceability records as you work.
Receive
Log incoming lots at the dock. If your grower is on ActaPath, their harvest and shipping records pre-populate your receiving form. Otherwise, enter manually once and the data is captured.
Data captured:
Incoming lot code, supplier, receive date, quantity, commodity
Plan
Build your production queue: what to make, how much, in what order. Check ingredient availability against your on-hand stock. See allergen transition advisories before any run starts.
Production queue:
Run order, ingredient availability, allergen sequencing, active run status
Produce
Start a queue item, select input lots (FEFO-ordered), record quality checks on schedule. Many-to-many lot relationships are handled natively — the transformation record builds itself as you work.
Transformation record:
Input lot codes, output lot codes, transform date, facility
Ship
Record outgoing shipments with lot codes, quantities, recipient, and shipping date — all linked to the full upstream history for that lot.
Shipping record:
Lot code, ship date, quantity, recipient, source propagation
Export
Generate a sortable electronic spreadsheet in FDA-required format in one click. Filter by lot, date range, or client. The 24-hour response window stops being the scary part.
Export:
Electronic sortable spreadsheet, full chain of custody, all data elements
Monitor
Track ingredient stock levels at a glance. Get alerts when a key ingredient falls below threshold — before it affects your next run.
Inventory:
Stock levels, FEFO lot breakdown, warning thresholds, held lot visibility
Each client's records are clean and separate — by design.
Client A's lots never appear in Client B's records. Audit one client. Export for one client. No mix-ups, no cross-contamination.
Know what you can make before you start the line.
Ingredient availability is calculated against your full queue, not just the next run. Item #3 accounts for what items #1 and #2 will consume. No guessing. No mid-shift shortages.
Allergen transitions flagged at planning time.
When the allergen profile of the next run differs from the current one, the queue surfaces a sequencing advisory before production starts. The decision and response are recorded automatically.
Invite your growers — receiving records pre-populate.
When a grower you source from joins ActaPath, their shipping data flows directly to your receiving log. The first-mile data gap closes without an email or a phone call.
Native transformation tracking
Many-to-many input/output lot linkage with full data capture on both sides.
Separate records per client
Each client's traceability records are completely isolated. Clean audit exports per client.
Production queue with guardrails
Plan runs, check availability, catch allergen conflicts — before the line starts.
One-click FDA export
Sortable electronic spreadsheet covering the full chain from harvest to ship.
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