Food, Drink & Packaging
Who are we?
Qmach is a specialist provider to the Food and Drink industry in partnership with Gael Quality for the UK's leading Quality, Compliance and (Food) Safety Management software Q-Pulse.
What do we do?
Increase quality, (food) safety and profitability levels in the Food and Drink Sector by allowing companies to take control of their business rather than pampering to the needs of legislation, multiple accreditation and customer imposed standards.
Satisfying these compliance obligations should simply be a by-product of good internal control, after all it is your business.
What are the top challenges we are seeing in the market right now?
- Customer & Supplier management, approving, recording and maintaining specifications and certifications; unable to demonstrate these on demand.
- Having no central integrated framework for the management of multiple standards and the perceived cost of implementing such a solution.
- External pressure to implement ever more robust and transparent systems to reduce risk and demonstrate continuous improvement.
- Maintaining existing systems to satisfy legal, customer and multiple standard requirements is complex, time consuming, resource intensive and expensive.
- No means of easily identifying risk and gaps in existing systems; gaps usually arise as a result of an incident such as a complaint or recall.
- Time and effort required to identify training needs and maintain records when controlled documents are revised, impacting on staff competency.
- Audit plan, CA/PA management and system unable to stand up to unannounced audits; everything requires preparation, plus resulting non-conformances not being completed in a timely manner.
- Resource intensive Document Control procedures that produce huge and unmanageable volumes of paper that is difficult to audit and hinder, rather than help the business.
How do we address these challenges?
By providing a central software framework that connects previously disjointed quality and food safety activities, supported by a range of Professional Services.
Who have we done this for?
Our customers are in both the public and private arenas and range from manufacturing to enforcement organisations in the Food & Drink industry and include Dairy Crest, Fayrefield Foodtech, Grampian Country Foods (Vion), Greggs, Kate's Cakes and the UK Food Standards Agency to name a few.
Which means that...
A common framework for current quality and food safety needs is established to manage and demonstrate compliance to BRC, the ISO's, BRC IoP, HACCP and other such standards, resulting in:-
- Effective Customer & Supplier management for approving, recording and maintaining specifications and certification, with the ability to demonstrate this on demand not just during audit.
- A cost effective central integrated framework to increase brand protection while reducing your regulatory exposure.
- Deliver continuous improvement through efficient regulatory compliance and be able to demonstrate your compliance status on demand.
- The automation of system tasks with visibility on resources and their workload, reducing complexity, cost and increasing resource utilisation.
- Risk and gaps being readily identified so internal controls can be improved before these risks and gaps result in an adverse incident.
- Automatic identification of retraining needs when controlled documents are revised to avoid competency gaps within your workforce.
- An effective and well executed audit planning and CA/PA programme that allows companies to sign up to unannounced audits, reduce overall costs, boost grading and customer confidence.
- A single central repository for all controlled documents with a streamline electronic process for managing all aspects of access and change control.
We'd love the opportunity to discuss these and any other challenges you may be facing to validate if our solutions are appropriate for your business too.
Please feel free to contact us at foodsafety@qmach.com or call us directly on +44 (0)1482 652153 to arrange a mutually convenient time to do so.