Requirements checklist
What to ask for when choosing software for spice manufacturers.
A checklist built from how spice manufacturers work, to print or save as a PDF and bring to any supplier meeting.
What the software should cover
Tick each one that matters to your business.
- Raw spice intake and grading
- Cleaning, grinding and yield
- Blend recipes by weight
- Pack coding and batch trace
- Packing line and carton counts
- Export and buyer documents
Roles that need their own access
Who logs in, and what each person may see or change.
- For the store
- For mill supervisors
- For blenders
- For packing line leaders
- For owners and buyers’ desk
Reports to ask for
Ask to see each one with your own sample data.
- Moisture reading and colour grade by supplier and lot
- Destoner loss and pulveriser yield by spice and mesh
- Blend batches with the ingredient lots issued
- Pouch batch codes linked to raw sack lots
- Whole spice stock by rack and age
- Packed quantity against orders taken
Systems it may need to connect to
Note which ones you already run.
- Barcode and label printing
- Weighbridge or scale import
- Accounting export
Questions for any vendor
Put these to every supplier you are comparing.
- Can it hold moisture readings for each sack lot?
- How is grinding yield worked out?
- Can the same blend be repeated exactly?
- Does a pouch code lead back to the raw lot?
- Can a weighbridge feed the weight in?
- Can we pack for other brands?
- Does it cover buyer documents for export?
- Who owns the records?
- How is a quotation prepared?
Where the work usually breaks today
Circle the ones you recognise. They set the order of the project.
- Moisture decides the lot, but the reading is lost
- Cleaning and grinding loss is not recorded
- Recipes live with one blender
- Pack codes do not point back to the lot
- Exporters need documents the floor cannot supply
Prefer to talk it through? See the spice manufacturers page.