In the food industry, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and customer satisfaction is a daily challenge. To address this challenge, many companies are turning to internationally recognized certifications such as IFS and BRC. These standards help structure, formalize, and demonstrate control over the supply chain.
But behind these quality commitments lie colossal documentary requirements, particularly for quality teams.
IFS and BRC certifications are part of a strict legal framework, which requires traceability and risk management throughout the food chain.
In addition, customer specifications and the specific requirements of the IFS/BRC standards require companies to collect a large number of supporting documents from their suppliers, in two main areas:
Today, in many agri-food companies, this documentary collection still relies on manual, often archaic methods, which heavily mobilize quality teams:
As a result, there is a lot of often outdated data, very long processing times, a significant mental load for teams, and a lack of a global and reliable vision of supplier risks.
Far from being simple administrative tasks, these processes have a direct impact on the ability of quality teams to:
However, when these tasks are time-consuming and have low added value, teams are held back in their high-value missions (risk analysis, quality management, continuous improvement, etc.).
Given these findings, it has become imperative for IFS or BRC-certified companies to digitize their supplier document management. Tracklab offers solutions for:
