Food Safety Regulatory Compliance: Catalyst for a Lean and Sustainable Food Supply Chain

ISBN-13: 9781439849569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 342 str.

Preston W. Blevins

Opis

The global sourcing of ingredients has created complex supply chains, significant management challenges, and additional regulatory compliance requirements. This places tremendous pressure on food manufacturers, many of whom lack the knowledge, concepts, techniques, and procedures to comply with these increased requirements. Providing a roadmap for leveraging existing investments in food safety regulatory compliance into superior inventory management, Food Safety Regulatory Compliance: Catalyst for a Lean and Sustainable Food Supply Chain explains how to implement Lean operating principles to determine what needs to be improved, in what sequence improvements must be addressed, how one improvement feeds another, and the prerequisites for each improvement.

Based on the author's experience working with hundreds of manufacturers, the book discusses cause-and-effect thinking, data accuracy, process simplification, process reliability, and workforce development. It includes how-to recommendations for implementing best practices to achieve these goals. These recommendations come together in the discussions on Batch-Process ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and also the Lean Management System and the useful techniques within it. The author also discusses the rapidly developing business requirement of sustainability, which is quickly moving from an optional, voluntary, and "nice to do" status to a "must do" status.

The book can be read in whole or in part by everyone from the CEO to the factory floor supervisor; the language is nontechnical. But, to aid comprehension, each chapter concludes with an extensive quiz, and the appendix has definitions that will be new vocabulary for many. Normally large companies have the resources to fund the implementation of best practices, smaller companies less so. This book benefits both. In the case of the small- to medium-size manufacturer, it is a roadmap, and for the major corporation it is a tool to help assist their supplier community. It can help any organization achieve world-class excellence in operations and supply-chain management.

Recenzje

"The author provides practical how-to advice that will assist both large and small manufacturers implement best practices to achieve data accuracy, process simplification, process reliability, workforce development, food safety, regulatory compliance, superior inventory management, and excellence in operations and supply-chain management. He addresses in practical terms the emerging "must do" requirement of implementing "sustainability." The book is a primer on how to do the right thing and profit from it."
—Keith W. Gates, in the Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology

Spis treści

Intro: Executive Overview. Food & Nutraceuticals Industry Overview. Regulatory Compliance Overview. Other Compelling Requirements and Considerations. The Top Ten Issues in Food Manufacturing. Implied Requirements. Process: Batch Enterprise Resource Planning. How to Organize the Workplace: Lean Thinking. Data, Compliance, Visibility. Looking Outside the Factory: Supply Chain Management. Effective Energy and Water Usage Management: The New Business Imperative.