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TL;DR - We helped Rubicon Organics significantly reduce the management time & cost of its cannabis quality assurance program. Here are the highlights:
- $500,000+ saved on QA personnel alone in the first year of implementation
- Batch release 600% faster than a paper-based quality assurance system
- Streamlined visibility of the entire facility
- Virtual audits made easy, thanks to a fully digital platform
"Thanks to Elevated Signals we have massively reduced the amount of time and cost needed to manage our Quality Assurance program"
Tyler Perkins, QAP, Rubicon Organics
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The Situation
Rubicon Organics is a publicly traded licensed producer that cultivates organic certified cannabis in its state-of-the-art 125,000 sq. ft. hybrid greenhouse in Delta, BC. In addition to its flagship brand, Simply Bare™ Organic, the company develops cannabis products under 1964 Supply Co., Homestead Cannabis Supply, WildFlower and its concentrate brand LAB THEORY™.
For its quality program, Rubicon Organics had initially paired seed-to-sale software with a paper-based recordkeeping system for quality assurance. As the company started to expand, the team soon realized the cost and burden of manually managing a paper system were significantly outweighing the benefits. They needed a process that didn’t slow them down and could scale with them.
“The paper-based system required significant resources to manage,” said Tyler Perkins, QAP at Rubicon Organics, “and our production team was looking at hiring a QA compliance liaison for every department to move paper documents back and forth for verification,” a move that would have seen a significant increase operating costs.
The Solution
The team considered a number of electronic systems to help with the growing demand but, as Tyler states, “their feature sets didn’t meet our requirements, it felt like fitting a square into a circle.” Rubicon Organics found the perfect fit with Elevated Signals, a SaaS platform that streamlines inventory management and quality recordkeeping into one system, enabling users to run a fully digital cannabis quality assurance program.
“There is no one like Elevated Signals in the market. Their team has built a truly unique offering with endless value to licence holders.”
Deploying the digital system was seamless; from the first day of implementation Rubicon Organics was able to digitize its recordkeeping and automate its quality processes.
The ability to build their own forms in Elevated Signals meant that the team could reduce errors and significantly speed up the batch release process.
The platform’s customizable capabilities also ensured Rubicon Organics met its Health Canada GxP obligations as well as the requirements for its organic certification.
“Implementing Elevated Signals has improved the efficiency of our QMS, and massively reduced the amount of time and personnel needed to manage our QA program,” said Tyler.
Soon after implementation, Rubicon Organics realized that Elevated Signals’ inventory function was far superior to that of the seed-to-sale system it had in place. The team now tracks both its inventory and quality assurance data in Elevated Signals. This centralization has given them streamlined visibility of their entire cannabis facility, while keeping operational and compliance costs low.
The Success
"Not only do they [Elevated Signals] have the best software in the industry right now, they're always going to be the best because they are constantly making it better"
Tyler Perkins, QAP, Rubicon Organics
