In the past year there have been more food recalls than every before. Many of the products that were recalled took days and even weeks to track as many of the Manufacturers/Processors, and Distributors do not have the means to track products. In the past year, President Obama signed a new Modernization Act that gives more power to the FDA to enforce companies manufacturing and distributing food (supply chain) to maintain a food traceability and food recall plan. From what we have heard, Canada and the CFIA are also cracking down. Thousands of food companies have viewed and downloaded the Recall Plan Templates that we have provided on our website as they do not have software that can manage traceability.

Additional Benefits

• Generate a report in minutes that tells you exactly how a product with specific Lot Numbers was used/shipped.
• Know what Customers to contact and their information
• Conform to regulating agencies to be able to manage traceability
• Piece of mind that you know exactly how and where each Lot Controlled product is used or shipped to

WinFDS has this functionality built-in for your convenience in the event that you you are contacted by your supplier or a government agency asking to recall a product you distribute or manufacture.

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From time to time we have been asked to find out when a specific User logged into WinFDS and what they did while they were logged in. This information can be extracted from WinFDS if you have the necessary security access. In the following paragraphs, we will discuss how to see what Users are currently logged into WinFDS, when Users logged in and out and what modules were accessed by specific Users and when.

Security Access

We all know that WinFDS provides you with the ability to prevent specific Users from accessing specific modules or performing functions they should not be performing (as an example, purging files). A number of months ago, we provided a WinFDS Tip that discussed how to set-up security accesses. Basically, after you set up a User, you can provide them access using "SS07 - Security Access Master File".

Display Current Users Status

In the Module 'Display Current Users Status - SS21', you can see who (yellow arrow below) is logged into WinFDS, When they logged in (magenta arrow below), what specific module they are currently in (red arrow below) and when they entered that module (green arrow below). You can also see what Terminal they are logged in from (black arrow below). To learn more about Display Current Users Status - SS21 search on "SS21 - Display Current Users Status" in WinFDS Help.

Another way to open SS21 is to enter a 'W' into the 'Enter Selection' field and hit enter. The Display Current Users Status panel SS21 appears.

Note: You may notice that Terminal 211 is identified four times all with different modules opened but the same User. This is a result of the User being in OP01 and then using the 'Exec' button to open MF02 and then again using the 'Exec' button to open PC06 and then again to open SS21. The '&' symbol next to the terminal number indicates the use of 'Exec'.

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It is becoming more and more important to have the Nutritional information of the products you manufacturer and sell. WinFDS allows you to enter this information so it can be viewed by your sales staff or Order Processing people without needing to find a file someplace.

Adding Nutritional Information

1. Open the Product Master File MF01.
2. Enter the 'Product Code' of the product you want to enter Nutritional Information to (red arrow below).
3. Click the 'Info' button (green arrow below). The Info panel opens.
4. Click on the 'Nutrition' button (yellow arrow below).

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