Quality Audits Are the Future of Food and Beverage Manufacturing

 

The future of food and beverage manufacturing depends on the more than 60 customer quality audit requests that a typical manufacturer receives each year and the ability to achieve superior compliance with FDA audits. Defined by the need to serve. To stay competitive.

Quality Audits of Food and Beverage Manufacturing Plants must find new ways to expand their audits if they want to continue to grow and acquire new customers. Auditing is one of the most powerful catalysts for continuous improvement, contributing to increased customer satisfaction and ultimately increased sales. Based on the quality data obtained from these audits, market leaders can take rapid action and instantly change customer outcomes.

• Auditing excellence is the most overlooked, yet powerful way to increase sales by linking company-wide quality efforts to improve customer satisfaction across food and beverage manufacturing. 

• ISO 9001 certification provides initial sales growth that, when combined with new products and programs, can translate into long-term sales acceleration.

• Quality initiatives in food and beverage manufacturing have reached a tipping point and audits must be automated to scale more efficiently and provide more valuable data than ever before.

These and many other interesting insights can be found in the Harvard Business School working paper "Quality Management and the Quality of Work: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Impacts Employees and Employers" by David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel). In the first large-scale study to examine how employee outcomes such as employment, income, health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001, researchers We emphasized how this leads to continuous improvement. This study focused on single-plant companies across a variety of industries. Dun & Bradstreet found that approximately 1,000 companies in California meet the criteria for being a single-plant company. This study has a direct impact on the food and beverage industry as it reflects the need to expand customer and regulatory oversight to retain existing customers and attract new customers.