A Windows-based processing and traceability system by Progressive Scale — integrating scales and barcoding into meat, poultry, and food plants with wireless, real-time data collection.
We integrate scales and barcoding into meat, poultry, and food processing plants with wireless real-time data collection. Product is tracked down to the individual serial number, making traceability and inventory control exceptionally powerful.
PPS is the cost-effective answer to the lot-tracking and labeling challenges of today's processing plants. From slaughter to e-commerce, it runs on SQL Server with the latest networked and stand-alone scale technologies to ensure the highest level of reliability — and it's fully customizable for any manufacturing facility.
These are meat processing software solutions assembled per plant rather than a single package sold off a shelf: the same core, configured for the floor it runs on. That is what makes custom meat processing software practical for a small shop and still adequate for a multi-line facility.
PPS follows product through the plant — each capability mapped to where it happens, from the kill floor to the customer's doorstep.
Harvest tagging stations capture live weight and print the carcass tag at the rail, with monorail scale integration so each side is weighed where it hangs. Cut sheets carry digital sign-off, and the harvest calendar schedules the animals coming in — see PPS Harvest Lite.
Weighing is configured per product and per station — fixed weight, catch weight, or tare — with PPS running on the Rice Lake 1280 indicator itself. The same software travels as a rolling scale cart, a fixed station with a stainless washdown printer enclosure, or a harvest tagging station, so the label prints where the product actually is — GS1 case labels included.
Zebra barcode scanners work in lockstep with the desktop: creating and managing locations, running cycle counts, receiving raw materials against purchase orders, and transferring product between locations. The same piece cannot be scanned twice to an order, and audio feedback confirms every valid scan — the error is caught at the moment it happens.
Traceability that depends on extra steps decays, because operators are busy and anything optional gets skipped on a hard day. The chain below is built as a side effect of normal work — nobody is “doing traceability,” they are just working.
Every piece, case, and pallet carries its own serial number from the moment it is weighed — so a unit is individually identifiable, not merely counted.
Tags applied at the rail bind supplier, animal ID, lot, and weight to the carcass before it breaks down, so the chain starts at the animal rather than at the box.
Poultry flocks and incoming raw-material lots are grouped at receiving and carried forward through every downstream transaction.
Grinds, mixes, and further-processed runs inherit their parent lots, so combined product still knows every source that went into it.
Each transaction records who performed it and at which station — the detail an auditor asks for, and the one a shift supervisor actually uses.
Ask which customers received a lot and get the answer in minutes: cases, weights, orders, and BOL numbers, ready to export.
Every step above is a record the system captures as the work happens, which is why a recall request becomes a report you run instead of a two-day paper chase. Plant-wide — receiving through shipping, with order fulfillment and QuickBooks behind it — that is the PPS Full System.
Most systems sold to processors are either an accounting package that has never seen a scale or a plant system that stops at the cooler door. The PPS Full System is the ERP for meat processing: one record from receiving through shipping, with the plant floor inside it rather than bolted on.
Purchase orders, raw-material receipt against them, and supplier records — reconciled at the dock with the scanner instead of afterward in accounting.
Serialized inventory by location with cycle counts, and yield-based costing that produces a true cost per pound rather than a standard cost that quietly drifts.
Order entry and fulfillment, pick and pack against catch weights, route and delivery scheduling, shipping labels and BOLs — meat distribution software in the same system that weighed the product.
Invoicing off actual shipped weights, with QuickBooks integration so the numbers reach the books without being re-entered.
That whole span — an ERP for meat processors, with distribution and delivery as first-class parts of it rather than an afterthought — is the PPS Full System.
A sealed edge gateway that adds the floor's own conditions to the record: continuous temperature and humidity from coolers, freezers, and chill stages, and machine cycle counts read straight from thermoformers, packaging lines, and checkweighers.
Readings are timestamped at the edge and buffered locally, so an outage leaves no gaps, and equipment with no data port can still be instrumented. Sealed enclosure, no exposed ports — these rooms get hosed down every night.
The newest part of the system is not a screen — it is how much of the work the system does on its own.
Describe the report you want in plain English. It is composed against a curated catalog of your own data — never raw database queries — so it cannot invent numbers or reach into records it should not. Every report states its own window, filters, and units.
Standing rules that watch for a condition and log every occurrence — every time a product is sold at minimum margin, for instance. The system watches, so nobody has to remember to.
The model runs on the plant’s own hardware, not a third-party cloud. Your production data never leaves the building, and the assistant reads paperwork and answers how-do-I questions where the work happens.
More on why these belong in one system rather than five: what meat processing software actually has to do.
Calibrations, repair, and 24/7 consulting are all included with Provision Processing System.
Custom hardware and software built to fit your company's needs — big or small.
We integrate with your pre-existing systems, including legacy software and QuickBooks.