Every SQF element, covered and connected.
Beacon maps every element of the SQF Code, from management commitment to training, to a module you can run and an auditor can check, with the Edition 10 requirements for culture, change management, and monitoring already built in.
Coverage you can see, not coverage you guess at.
Beacon maps the Code's system elements, GMPs, and food safety plan requirements to modules, templates, and workflows, and shows the evidence linked to each element. You always know what is covered, what is thin, and what still needs work before the audit date does the telling.
Step 01
Coverage review
See which elements have evidence linked and which do not.
Step 02
Build the system
Documents, workflows, and records for every element.
Step 03
Internal and mock audits
Run the Code against yourself before the certification body does.
Step 04
Certification audit
Every element evidenced, on the day they ask.
The system elements, 2.1 through 2.9, each with a home.
Every row is a real Code element mapped to the Beacon modules that carry it, with the records linked to it as evidence. Linked records are evidence pointers, not a pass guarantee: the point is that you see where coverage is thin before an auditor does. The Module 11 GMPs map the same way.
The policy, the resourcing, and the Edition 10 culture program: culture plans, activities, metrics over time, and concern reporting, with management review carrying the evidence that leadership actually looks.
Explore Culture & review
Version-controlled documents with electronic signatures, retention rules, and an append-only trail. The document control the Code asks for is the platform's native behavior, not a module you configure.
Explore Documents
Specifications under version control, supplier approval with questionnaires and documents, receiving against approved suppliers, and certificate-of-analysis tracking on every lot that arrives.
Explore Suppliers & specs
The HACCP-based food safety plan the Code is built around: hazard analysis, CCP monitoring on enforced schedules, deviations that demand disposition and verification, and a plan that answers for every change.
Explore Food safety plan
Internal audits run the Code against your own program, verification activities run on schedule, and completed records carry the signatures. The mock audit stops being a scramble and becomes a report.
Explore Verification
Lot genealogy on an append-only ledger, one-click forward and backward trace, and mock recalls you can run on demand with the results on the record.
Explore Traceability
Threat assessments, vulnerability assessments, mitigation plans, and scheduled reviews, with drills on the record. The plans an auditor reads, kept where the evidence lives.
Explore Defense & fraud
Promoted to its own system element in Edition 10. Allergen assessments, the ingredient matrix, changeover scheduling, and label declarations, linked so a recipe change cannot silently orphan a label.
Explore Allergens
Also given standalone weight in Edition 10. Programs, records, and assessments per role, linked to the documents people are trained against, so competency evidence is a lookup, not a binder hunt.
Explore TrainingBuilt for what Edition 10 actually added.
Five changes carry most of the transition work. Here is each one next to where it lives in Beacon, so the delta is a list you can walk, not a rumor you plan around.
| The change | What Edition 10 expects | Where it lives in Beacon |
|---|---|---|
| Food safety culture | A documented culture program that is measured and reviewed, not a policy statement. | Culture plans, activities, metrics over time, and concern reporting. |
| Change management | A dedicated clause: changes assessed for food safety impact before they happen. | Controlled change requests with impact review and approval routing. |
| Environmental monitoring | Trend review as an explicit expectation, not just results on file. | Sampling plans, scheduled tests, and trend review on the record. |
| Core-clause scoring | Mandatory elements remain non-negotiable, and core clauses now weigh heavier in the audit outcome on top of them. | Readiness insights grade the program element by element, weighing the mandatory elements and core clauses the way the Code does. |
| Cybersecurity | Cyber threats join the food defense plan's scope. | Scoped with the SystemPath consulting team; the documented assessment lives with your food defense plan records. |
SQFI expects audits January 2, 2027. Know where you stand before they do.
Edition 10 audits begin January 2, 2027, subject to GFSI benchmarking. Beacon's readiness insights grade your program element by element, weigh the core clauses the way the Code now does, and list the gaps by element, so the transition is scoped work, not guesswork. Internal and mock audits run the Code against your own program first.
Then, on the day itself: Audit Day Mode focuses the floor, silences the noise, and hands the auditor a signed, read-only view, with the audit packet sealed and checksummed before they ask.
See the Edition 10 transitionElement by element
Readiness graded against the Code, core clauses weighted.
Internal and mock audits
Run the Code against yourself before the certification body arrives.
Audit Day Mode
A focused floor and a signed, read-only share for the auditor.
Bring your SQF system, or stand one up with us.
Whether you are recertifying an established system or pursuing your first certification, Beacon adapts. Which path fits is a discovery-call conversation, and both end with a system you can run an audit from.
Digitize
4 to 8 weeksYou are certified and want the program on one platform. We move it over without losing what already works.
- Documents and records moved and mapped to the Code
- Element coverage visible from day one
- Your team trained on the workflows they run
Build
8 to 12 weeksYou are pursuing initial certification. We build the system with you, set up to pass the audit.
- The system built with you, element by element
- Internal and mock audits before the certification body arrives
- Set up to pass the certification audit
Beacon runs the whole food safety program natively. The business systems that stay connect at the seam.
Built by an operator, reviewed by a former SQF auditor.
Beacon was designed and tested at Roman Foods, an SQF-certified manufacturer in Michigan, by an operator who runs the program he certifies. The SQF coverage is reviewed by a team that includes a former SQF auditor with more than 7,500 audits from the other side of the table.
Former SQF auditor · HACCP Alliance Instructor on the team
What's behind Beacon
Both sides of the table
Years of audit-side experience
A former SQF Lead Auditor and HACCP Alliance Instructor advising every module.
Audits conducted
On the side of the table that asks the questions.
Working plant it grew up in
Every module runs live on the Roman Foods floor before it ships to yours.
See your SQF program, element by element.
A 20-minute walkthrough mapped to the Code and your audit date. Not a pitch.
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What happens next
Discovery call
About your facility, your certification status, and your audit date.
Element walkthrough
The Code on your program: coverage, evidence, and gaps, live.
Custom proposal
Software and SQF consulting sized to your audit date.
You'll talk with a team that includes a former SQF auditor, with more than 7,500 audits from the other side of the table.
20 minutes · No commitment · No pressure
Questions SQF practitioners ask.
Answers reviewed by a former SQF auditor on the SystemPath team.
Beacon covers the full SQF Code for food manufacturing: the system elements, which run 2.1 through 2.9 in Edition 10, from management commitment and documentation through the food safety plan, validation and verification, traceability and crisis management, food defense and food fraud, allergen management, and training, plus the Module 11 Good Manufacturing Practices and the quality modules. That is 134 system elements and 204 GMPs, each mapped to the Beacon modules, templates, and workflows that carry it. You do not need spreadsheets or separate tools to fill coverage gaps.
Beacon carries both editions, and its templates and workflows already reflect the Edition 10 requirements. SQFI expects Edition 10 audits to begin January 2, 2027, subject to GFSI benchmarking. The element coverage view shows which Edition 10 elements have evidence linked and which are still thin, and readiness insights grade your program element by element, weighing the core clauses the way Edition 10 does. Starting early means you transition on your own schedule instead of scrambling in late 2026.
Yes. Many facilities use Beacon from their first day of SQF program development. The platform provides templates for every required document, guided workflows for building the system, and element-by-element coverage mapping that shows where evidence still needs to exist before your certification audit. Paired with SystemPath's SQF consulting, you get guidance from a former SQF auditor who has guided facilities through initial certification.
Edition 10 makes food safety culture documentation and assessment explicit. Beacon includes culture assessment tools, activity tracking for culture initiatives, concern reporting workflows, and metrics dashboards that show your culture over time. The system captures what an auditor wants to see: not just that you have a culture policy, but that you are actively measuring and improving it.
The environmental monitoring module handles sampling plans, test scheduling, result recording, and trend analysis. When a result comes back out of spec, the people who need to act are alerted, and where the test specification requires it, a corrective action opens on its own. Trend data is visualized so your team can spot patterns before they become findings. Edition 10 emphasizes trend review, and Beacon keeps that trend data ready for your management review meetings.
Electronic records are standard in SQF audits; what auditors care about is that they are controlled, signed, and retrievable. Beacon's records carry electronic signatures and an append-only trail, audit packets assemble with a sealed manifest and checksum, and Audit Day Mode gives the auditor a signed, read-only view for the day while your team stays focused. The question stops being whether the records are acceptable and becomes how fast you can produce them.
The software works standalone, and many experienced facilities run it without consulting. But for initial certification, an Edition 10 transition, or strengthening a program, SystemPath's former SQF auditor advisors provide guidance that gets you there faster. One company for your software, consulting, and training. For more, visit our SQF consulting services or explore our food safety features.