About us

Since their existence in the early eighties, Beeftech focused their attention on the red meat industry of South Africa. Through the years, Beeftech stayed focused on the needs and circumstances of South African feedlots and abattoirs. By using only the most modern and integrated technology available to them, this industry leader managed to developed systems which embrace the complete meat chain – from the birth of the animal up to the point where the meat reaches the consumer's plate.

Beeftech have two research and development facilities situated in Eloff and Lydenburg in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Beeftech is famous for its practical solutions and systems which manage to target the exact needs of the industry. It is of the utmost importance that procedures and programmes be tested, in a functional manner, from the ground upwards in a user friendly way. Therefore Beeftech developed a close working relationship with all their business partners. Forming part of the developmental team is an operational feedlot, abattoir and meat distributor who shares the same vision and passion as Beeftech.

One of the challenges for Beeftech was to create and develop fully traceable solutions for the local market that also comply with international standards. Complete traceability involves the entire red meat production chain and requires more than just a good system. The full co-operation of the industry is crucial. Hence the close relationship and co-operation with the red meat industry to promote traceability. Beeftech’s systems embrace all the variations of product identification,

Methods currently in use are, visual numbered tags, bar coded tags and now also the two internationally approved RFID or Radio Frequency Identification tags. The Beeftech system addresses all these technologies and so supports the proper flow of information over long distances and international borders. In this sense Beeftech adheres to the current EU and American standards. By making the entire chain's data available, commercial farmers can determine when, what and at what price his calf/lamb should be ready and available for the feedlot, and more importantly, how the animal performs during the various production stages. Feedlot planning and management is also made easy by using Beeftech's modern technological systems as the data at any level can be traced back to its origin.

The importance of Veld preparation (Back grounding) can now also be monitored and measured. In addition to this, the abattoir, wholesale and retailer are now in total control as stock is monitored by individual packaged unit and not on mass only, as each packaged unit is individually identified. One of the most impressive advantages of the Beeftech system is interactive stock take and the savings potential here is vast.

With the exponential growth and development of the electronic world, information and no longer data, is the heartbeat of any successful organisation. Beeftech uses QlikView, a Business Intelligence product, to convert the huge amount of available data into intelligent business management information.