The solution is relevant to food manufacturers and distributors of all sizes and will help them to simplify their audit processes and securely report findings.

For the first time, the solution will enable native offline functionality, allowing users to complete audits anywhere, and upload the results later, using our new mobile app.

Fully compliant with all retailer and technical standards like , and , the app delivers a new and enhanced User Experience which delivers a simpler interface and streamlined workflows for mobile devices.

Until now, the X社区 platform has always been browser agnostic, however, this new development is designed to address some of the expanding needs that our customers have articulated and provides a simpler, more user-friendly experience.

What is Audit Management 360?

Audit Management is a new solution designed for stakeholders across the supply chain at all levels who are involved in the audit process.

At its core, the solution is designed to assist Quality, Compliance and Technical Managers that the full FSMS already caters for, but will provide them the option of priming management to transition to a full digital solution at a lower entry cost point and with minimal demand on resources.

Transition to a full digital solution at a lower entry cost point with minimal demand on resources.

Audit Management 360 brings together the existing Auditing, Corrective Action and Management Review programs and workflows, supported by X社区鈥檚 backbone functionality of master data management, document management, the reporting centre, and alert management.

In addition, Audit Management 360 is the first X社区 solution to have its workflows available on the new X社区 mobile app which gives users the option to conduct internal audits online or offline using their devices.

Conduct internal audits online or offline

We have developed the solution in response from our user base to evolving mark need to utilize hybrid working while maintaining compliance and oversight of facilities in accordance with GFSI and retailer technical standards.

Easier than ever to use and remove barriers in adoption

The solution will allow users to maintain oversight with retailer and technical standards to the same extent as when all resources are available on site with significantly less labour resources needed to be physically present.

New workflows designed specifically for mobile audits, will make it easier than ever to use and remove barriers in adoption across the wider work force.

What’s included (Features)

• Focused auditing functionality delivering internal audit, site audit and site self-assessment programs and workflows.
• Ability to configure your own customizable checklists, and also have access to our checklist library of globally recognized standards, large international retailers & other compliant bodies.
• Build your own ratings and scoring for your checklists to align with your own compliance regime or pull from our libraries.
• Access to our brand new mobile app, which gives users the option to fill out and complete their internal audits and raise corrective actions online or offline on the app with real-time data synching.
• Ability to raise corrective actions automatically or manually during your audit, or log corrective actions independently, and then track, manage and close these corrective actions with enhanced reporting and follow-up workflows.
• Ability to write Audit Reports, including customizing approval and review workflows.
• Ability to add files and photos while carrying out your audit to respond to checklist questions or support audit findings.
• Add guides and procedures to your audits, including on or offline on the mobile app, so your auditors always have access to the right information when they conduct the audit.
• Access to our Management Review module to build your own Management Review workflows for scheduled or targeted management reviews to take actions and submit reporting on non-conformances.
• Access to our Document Management module to build and configure document review and document control workflows for the storage, management, approval, versioning, and control of documents, including files uploaded during the audit workflow. Never lose a document again!
• Ability to maintain employee records to manage their information & build employee review workflows to monitor performance.
• Use the Reports center to access our library of reports, schedule and configure reports to land in your team鈥檚 or your leaders鈥� inboxes in the format and frequency that suits you best.
• Use our alert and notification functionality to keep teams and managers in the loop on all auditing activity and corrective action management.
• Build and customize user roles relevant to your organization or use our out-of-the-box user roles to manage access and permissions to your data and workflows.
• Our audit log feature tracks all activity across the solution, creating audit log entries for processes like creating, saving, printing, deleting, editing records and data, so you always know who carried out an activity & when.
• Access to X社区鈥檚 high performing support team and comprehensive user guide to advise and support you while using Audit Management 360.

How to get the solution?

Getting to grips with understanding where to start with X社区掳 has never been easier.

Our team of professionals are standing by to discuss your requirements and see if this is the right fit for you.

If it is, they will arrange a live demonstration which takes place on a 1-to-1 basis for you and your stakeholders to look at the system.

During this session they will advise you of what the next steps in your digital transformation will look like, or, if we’re not a fit, were other parts of our network can assist you.

Don鈥檛 miss out and to speak to our team today, to find out more.

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This new low-cost solution enables food safety practitioners to not only look at their food supply chain holistically, but also drill down into the products, materials, and entities within it to uncover and reveal what potential risks may exist within their supply network.

X社区掳 Risk offers a quick and easy solution to these challenges while allowing food businesses to reduce the overhead and obstacles they may have in risk monitoring, planning, and decision making.

Available completely separate or as an enhancement to our core Food Safety and Supplier Quality Management solutions, food safety practitioners can now gather and use big data sources to provide a fast and clear measure of risk in the supply chain, quickly scan for trends that might affect them, and feed this information directly back in the development of their local HACCP and PCP plans.

During this live one-hour presentation and Q&A, X社区掳 founder and Director of Digital Innovation, George Howlett, presented multiple scenarios and best practices for how to use the tool.

Purpose-built for risk assessors, auditors, and retailers who want to conduct more robust risk assessments, the demo covered these scenarios through a detailed overview of three new solutions, RASFF Risk Report, Trend Report, and the Risk Scanner report:

The webinar also took a deep dive into how the tool can be used to solve everyday queries and concerns for the food safety practitioner by enabling them to connect directly to big data sources and answer the following questions:

• What are the聽main hazards associated with specific food products when purchasing from a supplier?
• Which countries generate the most notifications聽for products you use or are thinking of sourcing?
• What are the major microbial pathogens associated with products in your supply chain?
• Which hazards should you include in your HACCP or PCP study?
• How best to remain聽alert to recent or emerging risks in the market?

If you would like more information on using Risk and harnessing the power of big data to underpin your assessments and decisions, click the button below and one of experts will be in touch to discuss how we can help you secure your supply chain.

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X社区掳 (SF360掳) Risk is an entry-level, line-of-sight risk data tool that uses Big Data sources to provide a clear measure of risk in the supply chain, scan for potential risk trends, and provide valuable input into the development of local HACCP plans.

This new solution is completely standalone and can be used independently or in addition to our core solutions for Food Safety and Supplier Quality Management.

SF360 Risk掳 is designed for risk assessors, auditors, and retailers who wish to conduct more robust risk assessments based on reliable big data sources.

It provides these practitioners with accessible and reliable data tools that support risk assessments and decision-making.

It contains three easy to use, yet powerful tools:

RASFF Risk Report聽– provides a detailed analysis of notifications based on the user鈥檚 query covering product, hazard, country of origin and distribution

RASFF Trend Report聽鈥� Our Trend Identification shows you the latest emerging trends from notifications posted to the European Commission鈥檚 RASFF Portal with all notifications from the last 90 days queried hourly and available for on-demand analysis.

Risk Scanner Report聽– Risk Scanner combines the percentile risk measures from the EU RASFF and World Bank to provide a blended measure of risk covering food safety and governance indicators.

This is a tool that has been designed to reflect the reality that most food businesses cannot make the leap from qualitative risk assessments to machine learning and predictive analytics overnight.

X社区 RISK掳 is the first step to realizing the full value of big data

Central to the development of this tool is an acknowledgment that the preparedness of a business is an important factor in realizing the full value of big data.

SF360掳 RISK is the first step in this journey.

What Do We Mean by Line of Sight?

Line-of-sight means that SF360掳 RISK connects the local practitioner directly with big data by allowing relevant questions to be asked and providing clear and easily understood answers to questions including:

• What are the main hazards associated with a specific food product I am purchasing from a supplier?
• Which countries are generating the most notifications for the products I am purchasing?
• What are the major microbial pathogens associated with the products I purchase?
• Which hazard should I include in my HACCP or PCP study?
• Are there any recent or emerging risks in the market that I should be aware of and review in the context of my HACCP / PCP studies?

These and many more questions can now be answered quickly and intuitively without any

What do We Mean by Entry-Level?

Using EU RASFF data, the tool is entry-level because you can be up and running within minutes of creating your account.

All assessments, reports, and analysis can be conducted quickly and intuitively with no steep learning curve.

Fully functional within minutes of creating your account

Our data science team has worked carefully together with our food safety experts to ensure that users will immediately identify with the tool and get answers to their risk assessment questions quickly.

As you can use the tool out-of-the-box and in real-time, it is designed to serve as an entry-point to getting businesses on the road to using big data sets and complex analysis.

More Than Just Food Safety Data

The tool also uses data from the World Bank database of Governance Indicators.

This provides a clear measure of relative risk for the rule of law, corruption, governance, and political stability in the country of origin of your purchased products.

This can then be combined with the relative measure of food safety risk to give a blended measure of risk for entities in your supply chain.

SF360 Risk掳 is the first in a series of new tools and will be followed soon with FDA Monitor and SF360掳 Predict.

We look forward to speaking with you and finding out how these tools can provide you real value and support your journey to using more data and analytical tools.

How to buy

Simply contact us and tell us you would like to use the tool, and you will be live on the system within minutes of creating your account.

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Traceability exercises and audits are an important component of GFSI audits which require food businesses to show full oversight of all products and materials through all stages of processing and dispatch, both forwards and backward.

Conducting these track and trace exercises is often a time-consuming activity and requires significant resources from the food business.

Typically these records are maintained in binders or folders which quickly accumulate and sourcing can take hours, if not days, depending on the efficiency of the record-keeping system in place and the resources dedicated to the task.

During a GFSI audit, the time available to produce these records is limited before a nonconformance is received, for example, the BRCGS allows a maximum of 4 hours to complete this action.

When internal audits are being conducted, this means time is spent on an activity that is non-value adding and could be applied elsewhere within the organization for a greater benefit.

We are pleased to reveal the latest enhancement to our solution is now available and resolves all of the above issues with no additional work required from users.

What has changed?

The new vertical audit reports leverage the power of the X社区掳 system and allow these actions to be complete within a matter of seconds.

This means food businesses can now access and retrieve all product and material data and demonstrate GFSI compliance 24/7 with no disruption or additional burden to their workload.

Users just simply select the product or material they wish to retrieve records for and define the period they wish to assess and the X社区掳 platform will do the rest.

Simply select the product or material … and X社区掳 will do the rest

If required, users can also further filter or search by batch number as well.

Once the search criteria is defined, simply press search and the search results will be returned to you, with the full vertical audit completing within a matter of seconds.

The returned relevant records in your search can then be opened and reviewed in real-time with all corresponding and supporting information attached, demonstrating complete oversight of your facility at all times.

What do I need to change?

Users will need to make no adjustments or changes to receive this upgrade.

The new vertical audit features are now live within the platform and are available to all X社区掳 users.

Simply navigate to the Reports tab and you will be able to run your report.

If you are not a X社区掳 user but would like to see how these reports could work for your business, simply request a demo by clicking here or the button below, and one of our product experts will be in touch to assist you.

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For many, much of this data is collected in the form of paper and excel.

In an average hour of operations, they must capture a copious amount of information and data to simply demonstrate compliance to relevant and interested parties as a pre-requisite to doing business in their sector.

Beyond this, each certification and regulatory standard requires that this data is analyzed and聽reported on to varying degrees.

Meeting these requirements typically results in a series of tasks which create a demand on internal resources, much of which is non-value adding.

Within X社区掳 the聽 Monitoring module is where the majority of compliance data is generated and captured.

This makes it the most heavily used part of our solution, but over the years, changes in food safety standards and legislation, as well as the internal demands of food businesses to gain improvement have required us to reconsider its functionality and capabilities.

To answer these requests, we have spent the last 12 months re-building this module to meet these emerging needs.

Now, we are delighted to announce Monitoring 2.0, a significant upgrade to the monitoring module which gives users an extensive suite of new data capturing聽and analytical features, which dramatically reduce the time people need to spend on figuring out聽what is in their data.

Why are these updates important?

Directly measuring a hazard is often not possible, or too impractical, to appropriately determine in many food manufacturing environments.

With this accepted, the next most effective way to ensure quality of product is to focus on the 鈥榢nown knowns鈥�, i.e., the parameters that can be established and monitored to assist in driving quality.

For food safety purposes, Monitoring can defined as the act of conducting a planned sequence of observations or measurements of control parameters.

These control parameters are secondary parameters such as temperature that can be interpreted in conjunction with the principles of HACCP to check that systems are achieving control, and equally as important, to check when they are not.

Without the ability to properly assess and analyze outputs in relation to the parameters of the system, food safety management risks becoming speculative and losing effectiveness.

In these instances, atrophy can enter the system as output scales with resources being ill spent or misappropriated and resulting in learnings going undetected.

Put more simply, monitoring is a required step to measure and collect data in relation to processing parameters, which can be used for continuous development and optimization of systems.

What is in the new update?

Starting from the new Monitoring Dashboard, these updates bring the full power of the proprietary Business Intelligence platform within X社区掳, StatusBI to the Monitoring module.

From a high level, users can now immediately see and share Status summaries for Compliance and Risk.

These present a summary of all current data in the monitoring system to let the user know whether they are doing what they are supposed to do, and secondly, if there are any open monitoring records in the system which may be increasing risk.

From these, users can drill down to the root causes that drive these results, and take appropriate actions or closeout tasks as required while saving time and resources.

The other elements that users now have access to are several new Dashlets which present the most important activity data relating to monitoring records.

This means you can now see in a clear and intuitive way information on the number of monitoring records which are Open or Overdue, as well as viewing by Activity, Stage, Result, and Statistical Process Control results to instantly showcase compliance with the requirements for Process Controls in SQF Edition 8.1.

Dashboards

Intrinsic to this update are refinements to the user interface.

These enhancements deliver a better user experience and allow for more customization and control over what data is displayed and retrieved from Monitoring activities.

This includes advanced options to customize columns with filters, search, indexing via pagination, adding, or removing depending on user needs.

In addition to this, pre-existing Statistical Process Control functionality in X社区掳 is now brought to the forefront of the module so that it can be more easily viewed.

As W. Edwards Deming, the father of SPC, once remarked, 鈥渦ncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality鈥�.

To further drive these quality improvements, SPC analysis of all tests and processes are now automatically summarized and updated in real-time in a dedicated dashboard which highlights all tests which are out of control zones and showcases Out Of Control Status.

These results demonstrate Program and Test results in a simple and intuitive grid, which can be easily sorted and provides enhanced search for deeper analysis.

This means, that in one location, users can demonstrate the following:

• • Distribution
  • Sample Size
  • Process Deviation
  • Cp Index
  • CpK
  • X-Bar Chart
  • Process Mean
  • X Upper Control Limit
  • X Center Line
  • X Lower Control Limit
  • R-BAR Chart
  • Process Range (R)
  • R Upper Control Limit
  • R Center Line
  • R Lower Control Limit

Testing

Tests and processes conducted throughout your food safety systems can be automatically compiled and highlighted in real time.

Enhanced grids can now include customized test results. These include:

What does this mean for me?

These updates are now live within the system and users do not need to take any action to change, adjust, or update their environment to start using them.

Join us live on February聽 11th聽 to see these changes and how they can be applied in your business.

If you have any questions about the enhancements, or how to get the best out of the new Monitoring module for your organization, please leave a comment below or contact Technical or Professional Services for further assistance, or to arrange personal training.

If you are not a current user of X社区掳 but would like to know more information, simply click the button below to request a demo and one of our team will be in touch to arrange a live showcasing of this module and the greater Food Safety Management Solution for you and your colleagues.

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LGC provides a range of measurement products and services that underpin the safety, health, and security of the public, including reference materials and proficiency testing, genomics reagents, certification and instrumentation.

LGC has revenues of ~拢600m and employs ~3,800 people with an extensive geographic footprint covering North America, EMEA, and APAC.

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Unlike other industries, it may not be possible for many involved in food manufacturing to work remotely given the nature of their operations.

However, ensuring the safety of personnel in the supply chain is paramount to helping maintain the integrity of the food chain as it works under unprecedented challenges.

There is now an urgent requirement for food manufacturers to demonstrate operational processes comply with social protection measures in order to best protect workers from the risk of contracting COVID-19.

The World Health Organization guidance for food businesses offers advice and measures that food businesses (both retail and manufacturing) can implement in support of existing food safety best practices to ensure the integrity of the food chain is maintained at all stages.

Caveats to the guidance

Although it is highly unlikely that COVID-19 can be contracted from food or food packaging, the guidance acknowledges that precautionary steps need to be taken within manufacturing environments as the virus may remain viable on surfaces for differing lengths of time.

*Disclaimer: This research was performed under laboratory conditions with controlled humidity and temperature and should be considered with caution in real-life environments.

The guidance also reinforces the importance of sustained stringent sanitation and hygienic practices to reduce the risk of food surfaces and packaging materials becoming contaminated, as well as the correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to mitigate its spread.

What is in the guidance?

The guidance provides practical advice and considerations for multiple areas throughout operations, including:

• Symptoms overview
• Fitness appraisals
• Illness reporting procedures
• Hygienic practice recommendations
• Best practice for correct glove use
• Physical distancing guidelines
• Delivery precautions and advice for limiting external contact
• Retail-specific advice
• Staff canteen considerations

How to use the checklist in X社区掳?

A checklist utilizing the above advice from the WHO is now available to all users of X社区掳 for immediate application.

These can be accessed from within the system starting today and applied in your manufacturing facility.

If you are not currently a platform user, or would like to know more information about using X社区掳 to enforce the strength of your Food Safety Management System in response to the challenges of COVID-19, please leave a comment below or contact us for further information.

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X社区掳 are pleased to announce that this is no longer the case due to the release of our integrated world-class Business Intelligence platform self-service tool.

This new tool means for the first time, businesses can now easily access and report on all their data, directly from the X社区掳 solution with a seamless integration between how they capture their data and report on it.

What can I do with the self-service tool?聽

The self-service reporting tool allows X社区掳 users to bring all of their data into one environment for them to have complete ownership of, and visualize their data in a variety of clear and informative custom dashboards and reports.

Essentially, this means that Safeofod 360掳 master users can give any user in their organization the authority to produce their own bespoke reports without needing any involvement or assistance from internal IT departments.

The benefits of the new tool include:

• Full BI reporting capabilities at users’ disposal allowing for enterprise-level data analysis.
• The ability to store, edit and share completed reports.
• Configure your reports to certain user roles to ensure that relevant data is only shared when necessary.
• Automate and send these custom reports on a scheduled basis to other colleagues.
• Full access to all data fields and data submitted into X社区掳, meaning you can conduct analysis on everything you record, no matter how small or tangential the link between the fields may seem.

How can I use the self-service tool?

Full product training is provided by X社区掳 Professional Services who can assist you in building and maintaining these reports.

Current customers can contact their implementation specialist or the support department for further details on how to access the self-service tool.

What are the next steps for self-service reporting?

The release of the self-service reporting tool marks a global first for cloud-based food safety management systems.
X社区掳 is the only compliance and food safety software platform globally that provides a fully integrated self-service reporting tool, which marks a major step forward in our objective for creating a true end to end compliance management system for the food industry.

If you would like further information or a live demonstration of how the self-service tool can benefit your business, please request a demo.

Alternatively, there will be an open live demonstration of the tool, followed by a Q&A session, on January, 14th. Register now:

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