How Buaiz Alimentos Ensured Traceability and Transformed Its Management with Actiz

Founded in 1941, Buaiz Alimentos is one of the leading food companies in Espírito Santo, Brazil, known for its track record of innovation and excellence. With brands and products in the Regina Wheat Flour, Número Um Wheat Flour, Regina Cake Mix, and Número Um Coffee segments, the company has invested in modernizing its operations to boost productivity and efficiency.

With a robust product portfolio and a well-established market presence, Buaiz Alimentos prioritizes high standards of food quality and safety, while continuously seeking to optimize its processes, including quality laboratory operations.

The Challenge: Manual Management

Before implementing Actiz, Buaiz Alimentos faced challenges related to the manual management of its quality laboratory processes. Sample traceability was handled using paper and Excel spreadsheets, which resulted in:

• Analyses prone to rework, directly impacting batch release timelines;
• Manual transcription of all test values and results into SAP;
• Poor integration between processes, impacting communication between quality control and production;
• Manual management of nonconformities.

These issues highlighted the need for a digital transformation capable of expanding traceability, improving operational efficiency, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

The Solution: Implementing Actiz LIMS

To overcome these challenges, Buaiz Alimentos chose to implement Actiz, a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), which digitalized and systematized its laboratory processes. Actiz LIMS is a platform designed to optimize data management, traceability, and process automation, delivering a more efficient, error-free workflow.

The solution included:

• Detailed process mapping, identifying bottlenecks and automation opportunities;
• Full integration with SAP, eliminating manual data transcription and ensuring consistency between systems;
• Systematized nonconformity management, with a dedicated module for handling and preventing deviations;
• Team training and engagement, to ensure effective platform adoption.

The Implementation Process: Actiz’s Own Methodology

The implementation of Actiz LIMS at Buaiz Alimentos followed Actiz’s exclusive methodology, ensuring efficient adaptation without disrupting the laboratory’s day-to-day operations. The methodology involves the following stages:

1. Diagnostic Analysis: The Actiz team conducted a thorough assessment of Buaiz Alimentos’ needs, identifying the specifics of the process and the areas most in need of systematization and improvement.
2. Planning and Customization: Based on the analysis, a customized implementation plan was developed, including specific configurations to integrate the system with existing tools such as SAP. This customization ensured that Actiz LIMS perfectly met Buaiz Alimentos’ requirements, without the need for drastic changes to its operations.
3. Implementation and Training: The implementation phase was carried out with ongoing support from the Actiz team, working side by side with the Buaiz Alimentos team. Training all employees was a priority, ensuring smooth and efficient platform adoption. Support was provided primarily through personalized consulting, ensuring every employee felt confident and prepared to use the system.
4. Post-Implementation Support: After implementation, Actiz provided ongoing support to ensure the system was operating optimally. The methodology ensured that any necessary adjustments were made quickly, without disrupting operations.

Adopting Actiz LIMS represented a significant transformation in Buaiz Alimentos’ quality laboratory processes. By systematizing lab routines, the system minimized the potential for manual errors, improving traceability at every stage of the workflow — from raw material receipt to final product delivery. In addition, Actiz ensured greater agility in response time, whether for operational needs or client requests.

The Results: Significant Gains in Productivity and Quality

With the implementation of Actiz LIMS, Buaiz Alimentos achieved transformative results, including:

• All batches fully integrated with SAP, ensuring complete traceability and compliance with manufacturing quality and safety standards.
• Increased laboratory productivity, speeding up batch release.
• Improved quality control response time to production, optimizing decision-making and avoiding rework.
• More efficient nonconformity management, with faster, more assertive investigation processes.
• Fast return on investment, resulting in significant optimization of operational routines.

Buaiz Alimentos’ success story illustrates how Actiz can transform the management of laboratories and industrial operations, serving as a key driver of significant gains in traceability, efficiency, and systematization. Actiz LIMS offers a robust solution that ensures data and process traceability, eliminates manual errors, and delivers more agile, precise quality management.

With an exclusive methodology and a highly adaptable system, Actiz fits companies just beginning to digitalize their processes as well as those with already well-established operations. The platform’s flexibility allows every aspect of the system to be customized to each business’s specific needs, helping companies optimize their routines and achieve exceptional results.

If you’re facing similar challenges in your operation and looking to transform your laboratory or production management, Actiz LIMS is the ideal solution. Our technology is ready to adapt to your needs and contribute to your business’s growth.

Get in touch with us to learn more about how Actiz LIMS can benefit your company.