Food production

A food producer, such as a bakery that bakes for shops or a maker of snacks, makes food in batches from recipes. Kila runs it as a production business with the Food safety rules on, so it starts with the same food records as a food processor.

What is special

• The food records. HACCP is in the Make menu, and the home page has HACCP: readings and deviations today.
• Its own set-up steps add the HACCP plan, the pack labels with the net weight and the KEBS mark, and the intake checks for flour and raw materials (listed below).
• Recipes with yields. Each product’s recipe says what a batch takes and how many come out good: see Set up a recipe or parts list.

No demo business runs as food production; Shamba Fresh Foods, a food processor, shows the same food screens.

How Kila sets it up

The main screen is Production orders.

Rules it follows:

• Food safety: Expiry, waste, temperature and hygiene checks

Its words:

Most businesses	Food production
branch	site

Its set-up steps

1. Business details and KRA PIN
2. Sites and stores
3. Licences and permits (KEBS, county, DOSHS)
4. Materials, packaging and finished products
5. Intake checks for flour and raw materials
6. Lines and machines
7. Recipes or parts lists with yields
8. Quality checks for each product
9. HACCP plan: critical control points and limits
10. Pack labels: ingredients, net weight, KEBS mark
11. Pre-start checks and logs
12. Suppliers
13. First production order

Its home page

• Yesterday at the plant
• Production orders today
• Lines now: running and stopped
• Intake today: received and rejected
• Shift handover
• Output against plan; yield and scrap
• Batches waiting for QC release
• HACCP: readings and deviations today
• Shift log today: output, scrap and downtime
• Materials short for planned orders
• Finished goods and days of cover
• Cost per unit against standard
• Machines: maintenance due and breakdowns
• Checks and logs today
• Orders to make and dispatch
• Payments waiting for confirmation
• Approvals and reviews waiting
• Licences, permits and returns due

Roles it starts with

• Production supervisor: Runs production orders at their site: plans, issues materials, records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, completes checks and closes orders. No costs or recipes.
• QA officer: Quality checks, holds and releases, recalls, the HACCP plan and its records, audits and issues, and tracing batches. No costs.
• Operator: Works on the line: records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, in-process checks and their checklists. No costs.
• Plant manager: Runs production across the sites: plans and orders, recipes and their approval, costs and variances, machines and maintenance, quality and the shift log.
• Storekeeper (materials): Receives, stores and counts materials and packaging, and issues them to production orders. No planning, output or costs.
• Maintenance technician: Machines and their maintenance: plans, work orders, spares used and downtime. No stock or costs beyond spares.

Where to go next

• Production: everything a food business that makes things needs.
• Food processing: the demo dairy, with the same food screens.