BlueTrace offers an iOS app which connects to a BlueTooth enabled printer to quickly create tags and labels and tracks information about your shipments for your HACCP logs or landing reports.
The Tag Printing app helps shellfish growers/harvesters save time by automating the tag printing process, prints legible tags, and automates the creation of a harvest and/or shipping log.
This digital log can be printed for your HACCP log book. It can be uploaded to some authorities as a landing report, and it provides a history of your harvests/shipments that's stored in the cloud.
Huge benefits:
First off, it will save you time printing or tags and labels:
- simply enter the tag info into the app, connect to one of the BlueTooth enabled printers we re-sell, and you'll have tags in seconds.
Second off, the app helps you log everything you're printing:
- Even though where your product is headed to is not required on shellfish tags, if you enter where your product is headed in the app and print it on your tag, your product more traceable, but it's automatically creating a log of everywhere you've shipped your product, how much you shipped and all the dates and temps. This is key for invoice generation and general business operations.
- If you do not enter where your product is headed, then you still have an incredibly helpful digital landing report that you can export, modify in excel / google sheets and send into your local authority.
Last, you're part of a connected network of suppliers and distributors:
- When growers/harvesters print tags using BlueTrace and ship to a distributor who is also on BlueTrace, we'll send the key traceability info to the Distributor automatically
- This makes YOU easier to work with and your distributor customers won't have to retype the tag data, this also reduces errors and saves a ton of time.
- The app also sends the distributor a heads up that your product is coming
- You can email your distributor customer pics of tags prior to arrival at their loading dock
Tag Printing App vs. Distributor App:
The BlueTrace Distributor iOS App empowers seafood companies to:
- See what's being shipped to you from suppliers who are also using BlueTrace
- Record all received items that hit the receiving dock
- Then track which of those received lots are sent to customers as they are shipped out
- Print inventory labels, shellfish dealer tags, shipping labels, and manifest tags for shipping
These activities inside the BlueTrace Distributor app on iOS creates two distinct logs: receiving & shipping logs, which are required to manage HACCP and comply with shellfish handling regulations. We also can receive ANY OTHER products you may carry (talk to us about that).
This dual approach (a receiving log and a shipping log) creates lot to lot traceability and is particularly useful for companies that distribute a received lot to many customers (like retailers, restaurants, other distributors).
Our Distributor customers pay an annual subscription for this additional power and we're working every day to create an even more powerful solution for seafood businesses as they grow.