Case Study: Bimbo Bakeries USA achieves real-time supplier visibility and faster compliance with TraceGains

How Bimbo Uses TraceGains to Stay Compliant and Proactive Against Risk

Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baker with nearly 200 plants across 32 countries, faced a growing compliance and supplier-management challenge: supplier data and documents were scattered, their vendor program couldn’t scale to meet GFSI and FSMA requirements, and they lacked the ability to quickly find, analyze, and act on supplier performance, contamination, allergen, and risk information across many facilities.

Bimbo implemented TraceGains’ Supplier Management and Supplier Compliance solutions, which mirrored existing paper processes for easy adoption and centralized supplier documents and data. The platform enabled real-time productivity investigations, supplier-behavior insights, lot holds for contamination, allergen tracking, automated document-expiry alerts, and historical performance trends — allowing faster problem identification, coordinated plant responses, improved compliance, and more effective supplier management.

Bimbo Bakeries USA

Len Heflich

Vice President of Food Safety, Quality, and Crisis Management