How TPS Tech Services Is Helping Food Manufacturers Strengthen Traceability, BRCGS and SALSA Compliance with Orijin Plus Platform.
Overview
For food manufacturers, traceability is no longer just an audit requirement. It is becoming a commercial, operational and trust-building necessity.
Whether preparing for a BRCGS audit, maintaining SALSA accreditation, responding to a customer complaint, or managing a potential recall, manufacturers must be able to retrieve accurate product, ingredient, supplier and production records quickly.
For many businesses, that information already exists, but it often sits across fragmented systems, spreadsheets, paper records and disconnected operational processes. The challenge is not always whether traceability data has been captured. The challenge is whether it can be centralised, trusted, retrieved and carried forward through the supply chain in a way that satisfies auditors, retail partners, regulators and customers.
TPS Tech Services works with food manufacturers across the United Kingdom to help them build, maintain and improve food safety and compliance systems aligned with standards including BRCGS, SALSA and FSSC 22000. Their clients rely on strong traceability processes not only to satisfy auditors, but to protect customer relationships, retailer approvals and brand reputation
To address this, TPS Tech Services partnered with Orijin Plus, combining specialist compliance knowledge with a purpose-built digital traceability platform that centralises traceability data, supports compliance requirements and enables trusted information to flow from production through to end consumers, downstream retail partners and other authorised stakeholders.
Combining Compliance Expertise with Digital Traceability
The partnership brings together TPS Tech Services’ practical expertise in food safety systems, BRCGS, SALSA and audit readiness with the Orijin Plus digital traceability platform.
Together, TPS Tech Services and Orijin Plus are helping food manufacturers move beyond manual, fragmented traceability processes and establish a more structured, audit-ready approach to compliance, product data management and supply chain transparency.
As Tomasz Saternus, Director of TPS Tech Services, explains:
Orijin Plus provides a centralised traceability environment that can collect, structure and manage information from multiple sources. This gives manufacturers a practical way to bring ingredient, batch, supplier, recipe, production and compliance data into a connected framework without assuming every process already exists in one perfect system.
For manufacturers that already have traceability data available, Orijin Plus helps centralise and activate it. For manufacturers still relying on manual processes, the platform provides the tools to begin collecting and managing the required data in a more structured way.
Helping Manufacturers Move Beyond Paper-Based Traceability
Through the TPS Tech Services and Orijin Plus partnership, food manufacturers are transitioning away from paper-based traceability processes and towards a faster, more controlled digital system.
Traditional paper-based systems can make traceability exercises slow, labour-intensive and difficult to validate during audits. By implementing Orijin Plus as part of their broader compliance framework, manufacturers are digitising critical records and reducing the time required to investigate batches, ingredients and production activities.
As Tomasz Saternus, Director of TPS Tech Services, explains:
“First, it enabled us to move from a paper-based process, which is often complex and difficult to control, to a fast, user-friendly web-based system. The platform can generate full product traceability within minutes, clearly showing which ingredients were used in each batch and providing real-time visibility of current ingredient stock levels.”
The system provides visibility into:
· Ingredients used within each production batch
· Batch genealogy and ingredient relationships
· Current ingredient stock positions
· Historical production record
· Recipe and formulation control
· Traceability evidence required during audits and investigations
By centralising traceability information and maintaining relationships between ingredients, batches, production activities and finished products, manufacturers are strengthening both day-to-day operational control and audit readiness.
Supporting BRCGS Compliance
BRCGS places significant emphasis on traceability, mass balance verification, recall readiness, specification control and product authenticity.
Through the partnership, TPS Tech Services is using Orijin Plus to help manufacturers strengthen these areas by combining practical compliance guidance with a system designed to support real-world traceability requirements.
Orijin Plus enables rapid bi-directional traceability and built-in mass balance evidence, helping manufacturers demonstrate not only where ingredients originated and where finished products were distributed, but also that material inputs reconcile accurately with production outputs.
As Tomasz Saternus explains:
“Orijin Plus enables rapid, bi-directional traceability with built-in mass-balance evidence, supporting BRCGS compliance and strengthening recall readiness, specification control, and authenticity verification.”
For manufacturers preparing for BRCGS audits, this supports:
· Faster traceability exercises
· Mass balance verification
· Stronger recall readiness
· Improved specification controlGreater visibility of ingredient usage
· Enhanced authenticity verification
· Faster evidence retrieval during audits
Rather than spending valuable audit time gathering records from multiple locations, technical and quality teams are able to demonstrate control through a more connected and reliable traceability framework.
Supporting SALSA Accreditation
For many small and medium-sized food manufacturers, SALSA provides a recognised pathway to demonstrating food safety, traceability and operational control while supplying retailers and foodservice customers.
Through the TPS Tech Services and Orijin Plus partnership, manufacturers are strengthening the traceability and record-keeping processes that underpin successful SALSA accreditation.
By centralising production, ingredient, recipe and traceability records, Orijin Plus helps manufacturers demonstrate documented evidence more efficiently during assessments.
This is particularly valuable for smaller technical teams that need robust compliance systems without adding unnecessary complexity.
The result is a more practical and scalable approach to traceability, one that supports current SALSA requirements while creating a foundation that can expand as the business grows.
Centralising Traceability Data for the Future of Product Information
The value of Orijin Plus extends beyond internal traceability and audit preparation.
As global standards shift towards 2D barcodes, GS1 Digital Link and more interoperable product data, manufacturers need traceability systems that do more than store records. They need systems capable of carrying trusted information forward to retail partners, consumers and authorised stakeholders.
This is where Orijin Plus provides a strategic advantage.
The platform centralises traceability and product data, then connects that data to a GS1-compliant resolver framework built around GS1 Digital Link standards. This means manufacturers operating within Orijin Plus are already building the digital foundations required for the next generation of connected packaging, product transparency and supply chain interoperability.
As 2D barcodes become more widely adopted and retailers demand greater access to structured product information, Orijin Plus gives manufacturers the flexibility to adapt without rebuilding their traceability systems from the ground up.
The platform helps manufacturers:
· Centralise traceability data from fragmented systems
· Manage product, batch, ingredient and supplier relationships
· Connect trusted information to GS1 Digital Link standards
· Support future 2D barcode requirements
· Share relevant product information with consumers and retail partners
· Adapt as standards, retailer requirements and emerging legislation evolve
In this way, Orijin Plus acts as the end piece of the traceability system, taking verified internal data and making it ready to travel forward through the market.
Strengthening Product Consistency
Beyond traceability, TPS Tech Services has also seen the platform support improved recipe management and product consistency.
By helping teams manage approved formulations and follow controlled specifications, Orijin Plus strengthens production discipline and reduces variation across batches.
As Tomasz Saternus explains:
“Orijin Plus enables rapid, bi-directional traceability with built-in mass-balance evidence, supporting BRCGS compliance and strengthening recall readiness, specification control, and authenticity verification.”
This creates benefits that extend beyond compliance, supporting product quality, operational consistency and customer confidence.
Building Consumer and Retail Partner Trust
While compliance remains a critical priority, food manufacturers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate transparency beyond the audit room.
Retailers want greater confidence in product data. Consumers want more visibility of provenance, certifications and quality claims. Regulators are continuing to raise expectations around traceability, authenticity and accountability.
Through Orijin Plus, TPS Tech Services clients are not only improving internal compliance, they are creating the foundations to share trusted product information externally.
As Tomasz Saternus explains:
“Beyond compliance, Orijin Plus helps clients turn ‘we’re on top of this’ into something customers can actually see and believe. Because trust isn’t built by waving a certificate at people and hoping they don’t ask questions.”
The platform helps manufacturers strengthen trust by enabling:
· A credible product story in one scan
· Visibility of certifications and standards without label clutter
· Proof points for authenticity and quality claims
· Direct customer engagement from the pack
· A future-ready signal to retailers and consumers
· Better insight into what customers care about
As Tomasz summarises:
“Orijin Plus lets TPS clients move from ‘trust us’ to ‘here’s the proof, and here’s a direct line to us if you want more.’”
Future-Ready for 2D Barcodes and GS1 Digital Link
For manufacturers considering 2D barcodes and GS1 Digital Link, TPS Tech Services’ guidance is clear: start early and go beyond the minimum requirement.
As Tomasz Saternus advises:
“Simply do it. Go beyond the minimum requirements and demonstrate confidence in your product by being genuinely visible and transparent about its journey and quality.”
This is where the TPS Tech Services and Orijin Plus partnership becomes particularly valuable.
Manufacturers are not simply adopting a QR code or preparing for a packaging update. They are building a connected data framework that supports traceability, compliance, retailer interoperability and consumer engagement from a single platform.
By centralising traceability data and connecting it to GS1 Digital Link standards, Orijin Plus helps manufacturers operate ahead of the curve as the market moves towards 2D barcodes and greater product data accessibility.
A Practical Partnership for Compliance, Traceability and Transparency
The partnership between TPS Tech Services and Orijin Plus gives food manufacturers a practical pathway to stronger compliance, greater operational control and increased market confidence.
TPS Tech Services brings the food safety, audit and compliance expertise required to guide manufacturers through BRCGS, SALSA and wider food safety expectations. Orijin Plus provides the digital traceability platform required to centralise data, support mass balance verification, strengthen recall readiness and connect trusted product information to GS1 Digital Link standards.
Together, TPS Tech Services and Orijin Plus are helping manufacturers build traceability systems that satisfy today’s audit requirements while preparing them for tomorrow’s connected, data-driven food supply chains.
As Tomasz Saternus explains:
“Orijin Plus delivers an exceptionally high standard of customer service, with rapid and reliable responses to queries. The team is highly receptive to feedback and consistently translates practical suggestions into meaningful platform updates. This collaborative approach ensures the system continues to evolve in line with real-world operational needs and UK traceability compliance requirements.”
For food manufacturers, the message is simple: traceability should not stop at compliance.
With the right partner and the right platform, it becomes a foundation for audit readiness, retailer confidence, consumer trust and future market adaptability.
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