Tasty Bite Eatables Limited
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Our best-in-class facilities, supported by advanced technology and processes, help us enrich our portfolio to delight our brand patrons. Our processes are routinely upgraded to ensure the safety and sustainability of the business.
Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility spans 30 acres near the city of Pune. Our facility houses a huge kitchen where a variety of grains and vegetables are slow cooked in industry-grade kettles, along with spices sourced from multiple geographies.
The manufacturing process undertaken at our facility guarantees that the products have no artificial flavours or additives. This allows for high retention of the food’s original aroma, texture, and nutrients. We follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to ensure that the products produced are consistent and in adherence to set quality standards
Throughout the year, we have invested in modernising infrastructure to ensure that utilities such as ETP, WTP and refrigeration plants can meet their requirements in the long term.
We have integrated technology for various operations at our factory. We pioneered the use of retort technology for commercial sterilisation of food in 1987. Since then, we have been using various retort equipment ranging from water spray retort to the nextgeneration rotary retorts. We also use Individual Quick Freezing (IQF) method for the manufacture of our delicious frozen foods.
New automated line has resulted in better efficiency and lower manual intervention. We use techniques of food processing like thermal processing (hot filling), dry filling, cold blend, emulsion for better quality food, sterilisation and longer shelf life. We employ the latest technologies such as pressurised cooking and hot soaking to improve quality, reduce time and improve working conditions during food processing.
Our quality management system is designed to ensure quality excellence and spans every aspect of our operations. To ensure products of highest quality for our customers, we have implemented the Tasty Bite Quality Management System (TBQMS), which integrates global quality and food safety standards. TBQMS ensures quality and safety right from sourcing ingredients to dispatching the final products.
We have a number of quality system certifications in place, as well as ongoing training for associated employees. We also conduct periodic reviews of Key Performance Indicators, which include complaints, key food safety and quality performance indicators. Quality audits are also performed in the form of annual external certification audits, monthly internal audits, and periodic Customer Quality System audits.
Our Quality Assurance (QA) lab uses high-quality equipment to analyse our raw materials, packing materials and finished goods. Each material- both raw and packing- is analysed as per specified parameters to ensure food safety and quality throughout the product’s shelf life.
Our highly qualified team of specialists ensures quality and food safety across the plant. The QA team is involved in monitoring, analysing, verification, validation, recording and internal auditing as per the norms of TBQMS.
A well-established material quality management plan assures consistent supply of required quality-assured materials. As a part of this, we have implemented sustainable procurement initiatives in certain commodities and contracts with Organic Farmers Producer Group.
We ensure an efficient end-toend supply chain network by strategically purchasing, reducing dependence on imported materials and storing raw materials for products in order to balance supply and demand on a continual basis. We coordinate arrangements with freight forwarders to ensure that finished goods are delivered on time.
We intend to build a contemporary, agile, and integrated end-to-end supply chain through procurement, based on forecast and market conditions, review of re-order level of inventory, warehouse storage, and contracts with diverse suppliers for prompt manufacturing and shipment.
With enhanced agility and a dynamic supply chain approach, we overcome unforeseen challenges. We achieve agility by developing process flow models that include a Master Production Schedule (MPS) and Master Requirements Planning (MRP). Along with this, we use Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP), which assists us in making strategic decisions with the sales and operations teams in order to meet demand.
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