Case Study: Maple Leaf Foods achieves a 52% reduction in documentation and improved lab productivity with LabVantage Solutions

How Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Improved Productivity by Digitizing its Data with LabVantage

Maple Leaf Foods, Canada’s leading consumer protein company, faced slowing productivity, poor traceability and data‑security risks from a hybrid of manual documentation and a heavily customized legacy LIMS that made upgrades and ISO 17025 accreditation difficult. After a six‑month selection process they chose LabVantage Solutions and its LabVantage 8 LIMS to standardize workflows, enable web/mobile access and centralize Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) data.

LabVantage Solutions implemented a largely out‑of‑the‑box, web‑based LIMS across three corporate labs and 18 manufacturing plants, adding EMS sample‑point randomization and mobile data capture while meeting roughly 90% of Maple Leaf Foods’ requirements without customization. The system now supports 250+ daily users, logs over 700 samples per day, covers 10,444 EMS locations (26,783 sample points) and has driven a 52% reduction in paper documentation, improving traceability and operational efficiency.

Maple Leaf Foods

Jean-Yann Bucaille

Director of Information Solutions