Are You Audit Ready?
Find out how SI’s real-time data capture and digital QA manual is driving BRC compliance and audit management for our customers. Our interactive guide is packed with practical advice from experts and our customers about how to always audit ready!
- Track everything in real-time and provide full traceability across your supply chain.
- Get the fine detail, including mass balances within individual traces
- Eliminate reliance on paper-based processes for your food processing audits
- Automatically schedule required inspections and QA tasks.
For the most robust and efficient food processing audits, digitalise your QA and traceability with SI.
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QA MANUAL DIGITALISATION – THE ONLY WAY TO ACHIEVE NEW BRC GLOBAL STANDARDS
When the2018 BRC Global Standards for Food Safety (Issue 8) were published, the new standards delivered a significant challenge for the food industry. To meet the stringent changes to prove compliance, document control and reporting meant that there would need to be a virtual bonfire of manual QA paperwork. In fact, the only way to achieve full compliance, for food processing audits, would be through the digitalisation of the QA process. The BRC constantly raises the bar for expectations of audit information and traceability, particularly where labelling and pack control is concerned. In Issue 8, there’s a pronounced focus on enhancing monitoring and delivering clarity of requirements needed for the likes of high-risk food production zones and sites manufacturing pet food.
The need for real-time data monitoring
Step up to paperless QA and traceability
When a food processor is still reliant on paper-based records to manage some or all of its QA processes, it’s very difficult for operations managers to ensure each task is done at the right time. And, in terms of proof points, it’s impossible to demonstrate that the information was obtained at that specific time and reported correctly. This is the reason why the digitalisation of the QA manual is so important; it provides the opportunity to eliminate the reliance on paper processes and fundamentally drive compliance. Powered by real-time data, individuals or groups of people can be alerted to required actions throughout the day, month and year electronically. It also plays an important role in recording information as data entries, instead of lines on a sheet of paper. At SI we’ve helped many businesses eliminate paper-based QA operations, take a look at the videos below to see how we assisted businesses, just like yours, automate their food processing audits.
“When we were making investment decisions in our new 100,000 sq ft facility, this also became the kick start for us to look for a new production management system that we could then embed across our facilities. We needed a pure software solution that we could use right across our estate, that would sit on top of whatever hardware was appropriate for the environments. We’ve got multi spaces focused on primary processing, further processing and convenience processing as well, so we needed a specifically designed system that could sit over this equipment. It was also important for us that if we were going to make such an investment in a system, it was able to grow and grow with us across our estate. We felt that Systems Integration could do that.”