From the supplier to the customer — one connected bakery system.
V5 Ultimate connects every ingredient lot, every weigh, every bake, every pack and every pallet — through to the customer who receives it. Supplier compliance at the dock. Scale-bonded recipes on the floor. Label and allergen lock at the printer. Instant recall in the back office. True COGS, per SKU, every day.
Built for FALCPA, FSMA preventive controls, and SQF/BRCGS.
The same data — seen the way you run the business.
For a $50m bakery, the small wins compound fast. Finance sees true COGS and the margin recovered in $. Operations sees the next gain on every line. Quality sees brand confidence built into every batch.
More margin in every batch — true COGS per SKU daily, with the small gains on weighing, scrap and stock-turn finally on the page.
- Per-batch actual cost: ingredients, labour, energy and rework — visible in $, today.
- Live margin per SKU, per customer, per shift — the room you didn't know you had.
- Working-capital release from accurate stock rotation and supplier on-time scoring.
- Most bakeries see V5 pay back well inside year one — and keep compounding.
From the supplier's COA to the customer's pallet — one connected thread.
Follow a real day in the bakery. Every step below is one screen in V5 — and the schedule, OEE and preventive-maintenance layer runs underneath them all.
Qualified supplier, COA on file — before the truck books in.
- COA, allergen and supplier status checked at the dock — no COA, no goods-in.
- Expired qualifications block receipts and email the vendor automatically.
- Vendor portal — suppliers upload renewed docs themselves.
- Every pallet, sack and IBC barcoded into the warehouse at receipt.
The schedule pulls the right bulks and bags — and every gram is weighed against the recipe.
- Schedule built for the floor — allergen sequence and changeover times baked in.
- Scale-bonded weighing — recipes pull mass straight from the indicator.
- Live weight tracking at every divider head — drift caught early, not at month-end.
- Daily yield close in minutes — by SKU, line, shift and crew.
The line can't run until the changeover is signed — and every shift's OEE updates as it bakes.
- Sanitation, swabs and second-person sign-off ride with the batch record.
- Label printed from the released recipe — mismatches blocked at the printer.
- Live OEE per line — availability, speed and quality, not a Monday spreadsheet.
- Stoppage reason coded at the line in two taps — straight into the daily review.
From the last pack to the right pallet on the right truck — scanned, not guessed.
- Finished-goods SKU released by QA before it can be picked.
- Pallet build, SSCC labels and mixed-pallet rules per customer.
- Load and bay assignment lined up with the dispatch schedule.
- Every pallet scanned onto the truck — proof of dispatch, instant ASN.
"If we recalled lot B-78214 right now — what's the blast zone?"
The customer sees their orders, their ASNs, their COAs and their open queries in a branded portal. And when the retailer calls a drill, V5's lot tree paints the affected units, shifts and customers live — forward from the lot and backward to every supplier COA that built it. The answer is instant.
Supplier flags Flour lot F-4471. V5 walks the tree up — the dough it built, the SKUs it became, the customers that got it. Pull the lever to see the blast zone.
Planned maintenance that actually runs — on the same tablet as production.
- PM and calibration schedules per asset, with full history.
- Engineering work orders dispatched on the same tablet as production.
- Asset uptime and breakdown reasons fed straight into OEE.
- Spares stock and lead times in the same ledger as ingredients.
Quality runs through every step — not bolted on at the end of the shift.
- Incoming-goods checklists per ingredient — temperature, seal, weight, allergen, COA match.
- In-process checks scheduled on the line — pH, water activity, weight, bake colour, metal-detect.
- Finished-goods release — QA can't be skipped before a SKU is picked.
- Internal audits auto-route into deviations, NCRs and CAPAs — nothing closes itself.
- Supplier and customer complaints tracked, scored and fed back into the vendor record.
- Document control and training matrix — superseded SOPs hard-block the kiosk.
Every quality feature in V5 — mapped to a bakery floor.
The same platform that runs pharma cleanrooms and medical-device assembly — set up for the way a bakery actually checks, releases and audits its product.
Incoming inspection checklists
Configurable per ingredient and per supplier. The receiver can't close the receipt until every check is signed — and a failed check raises a hold automatically.
In-process checks & SPC
Scheduled checks on the line — capture weights, pH, water activity, bake colour, metal-detect results. Limits enforced; out-of-spec opens a deviation.
Finished-goods release
QA review of the batch record before any SKU can be picked. Holds, retests and concessions all routed; nothing ships without a release.
Deviations, NCRs & CAPA
One workflow from issue raised to root cause, action, verification and close. Linked to the batch, line, supplier and customer involved.
Internal audits & GMP walks
Schedule the walk, score it on the tablet, and findings auto-route into CAPA — no spreadsheet between the audit and the action.
Document control & training
Two-person e-sig approval, version control, hybrid numbering. The kiosk hard-blocks any operator on a superseded SOP or with overdue training.
Supplier scorecards & re-qualification
On-time delivery, COA quality, complaint rate and audit findings rolled into a live score. Expired qualifications block goods-in automatically.
Calibration & equipment qualification
Scales, thermocouples, metal detectors, pH meters all on a calibration calendar — with the certificate attached and the next-due date enforced.
Customer complaints & 8D
Complaint in, lot traced, root cause and response back to the customer — closed-loop, with the QA record updated for the next audit.
Live on the equipment you already own — no rip-and-replace.
We connect at the level your IT and your engineers expect — OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, REST, EDI, file drops, SQL. Most bakery sites are live on day one with the scales, checkweighers, metal detectors, coders and ERP already in the plant.
ERP & finance
SAP, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Sage X3, Infor M3, Oracle. Bi-directional on orders, receipts, batches and stock.
Scales & weighing
Mettler-Toledo, Avery Weigh-Tronix, Ohaus, Marel, A&D. Recipes pull live mass; check-weights stream into SPC.
Checkweighers & detectors
Mettler-Toledo, Loma, Ishida, Anritsu, OAL, Heuft. Weight, reject and metal-detect events tied to the batch in real time.
Coders & vision
Markem-Imaje, Domino, Videojet, Linx, Cognex. Date/lot code on every pack pulled from the released formula.
Process control & PLCs
Siemens S7, Rockwell / Allen-Bradley, Beckhoff, Schneider, Mitsubishi. OPC UA, Modbus and MQTT — historian-friendly.
BI & data warehouse
Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Snowflake, Databricks. Direct SQL access to your tenant — your data, your queries.
BRCGS, SQF, FSSC 22000, FSMA 117 & 204 — at the data layer.
The records build themselves as the bread bakes. When the unannounced auditor walks in, the evidence pack is one click — not a fortnight's scramble.
Fixed-price, named team, one line live before you pay for the next.
- Week 1–2·step 01Discovery & line scan
We walk one line with your team — recipes, tolerances, scales, coders, the ERP fields you already have. Out: a fixed scope and price.
- Week 3–5·step 02Configure & integrate
Recipes, BOMs, allergen rules, SPC limits, label templates and ERP feeds loaded. Hardware on the bench, scripts signed off.
- Week 6–9·step 03Pilot & train
One line live in pilot. Three-shift operator training on the floor with the actual UI — not slides. UAT signed by QA and operations.
- Week 10–12·step 04Go live & hyper-care
Cut over. Two weeks of hyper-care with your named delivery team on-site. KPIs published on the wall before we leave.
The first six questions on every bakery RFP.
How long to go live on one bakery line?
Will V5 talk to our existing scales, checkweighers and coders?
How does V5 fit alongside our ERP — SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics, Sage?
What does the BRCGS / SQF / FSSC audit pack actually look like?
Can operators actually use it in a three-shift bakery?
What about IT? SOC 2, GDPR, change control?
Book a 30-minute walkthrough with a bakery specialist.
We'll show OEE, divider SPC, an allergen changeover, a mock recall and an audit pack — on a workspace seeded for industrial bakery operations.
Fixed-price go-live · No platform lock-in · Onboard in 6–12 weeks