Supply chain blogs

A new international standard for traceability

4th Mar 2009 by Cor Groenveld

ISO 22005 is the new international standard for traceability in the food and feed supply chain. Traceability is a must throughout the whole feed and food supply chain, in particular as a part of the emergency management process when quality or food safety problems with raw materials or finished products occur. When an organisation is able to rapidly trace back ingredients or finished products, risks and costs involved with quality and food safety defects will be reduced. The standard is part of the ISO 22000 family and it provides tools to implement an effective traceability system as part of a food safety / quality management system.

2 Comments Read more

US Food Safety Consumer Confidence at all time Low

2nd Mar 2009 by Alex Briggs

Consumer confidence in the safety of the US food supply has dropped sharply in the wake of the current salmonella outbreak, with fewer than one in five now saying that they feel the supply is safer now than a year ago.
With only 22.5 percent saying that the nation’s food supply has become safer, confidence in American food is the lowest it has been.

Food Terrorism tops 2009 Safety scare list

11th Jan 2009 by Alex Briggs

For 2009, Bill Marler, food safety advocate and managing partner of law firm Marler Clark, asked the food safety community to weigh in on the most pressing food safety challenges.

Top of the list was globalization, including the possibility of “economic or chemical terrorism”, which may not directly intend to scare people but is the intentional adulteration of the food supply motivated by profit, as in the case of the recent melamine scare in China.

1 Comment Read more

What is Supply Chain?

9th Jan 2009 by Kevin Roberts

An article which explains the term Supply Chain, and what it means to businesses all over the world.

Container Trade between Europe and Asia shrinking for first time ever!

19th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs

This Naked Capitalism post is all about the evidence that continues to gather out there about the global slowdown in container shipping.

Credit Crunch Supply Chain Predictions

18th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs

i2 Technologies has published their economic downturn supply chain predictions:

1. SaaS and other engagement models will dominate in 2009
Software as a service (SaaS) and other engagement models will dominate the market in 2009 as companies seek to focus technology budgets on gaining a competitive advantage quickly without additional infrastructure. Outcome-based service engagements will be encoded into contracts in 2009 utilizing a managed business process services approach.
2. Risk becomes real and so does risk management

Is your supply chain at risk?

17th Dec 2008

Bob Ferrraris Blog about Supply Chains, this post talks about Supply Chain risks today.

Collapse of Big Three would be a threat across the supply chain

9th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs

The future of any of the big three U.S. automakers lies both in world-class, competitive products, but also in a vibrant supplier network that can drive higher levels of innovation and time-to-market.

German Corporate Partnership sets out to answer, “What does sustainable production actually mean?”

8th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs

This Food and Drink Europe article talks about the new set of criteria and standards for sustainable fruit and veg production that BASF Corporation is developing for German supermarket chain Rewe. Named Crop Protection, the new standards aim to give sustainability assurances throughout the food chain, right through to consumers.

Shoring up supply chain security

5th Nov 2008

In a blog by Volkan Sevindik, it looks at the supply chain and how security breaches can damage brands, break down partnerships and, ultimately, hurt the bottom line.

1 Comment Read more

What is Business Assurance?

LRQA’s Business Assurance helps you manage your systems and risks to improve and protect the current and future performance of your organisation.

The Business Assurance approach uses a consistent methodology for providing business driven assessments based around the organisation’s most significant risks.

Choose your preferred method below. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Subscribe by email

Subscribe to RSS Subscribe to iTunes

Latest updates

Arabian Automobiles Company awarded ISO 14001 certification for its sales, service and parts operations - a first for automobile distributors in UAE 21st May 12
Bonn Climate Change Talks – Day 4 18th May 12
ISO 27001 Certification achieved by Skyscape Cloud Services 17th May 12
Bonn Climate Change Talks – Days 2 & 3 17th May 12
BestCities score 10/10 as Berlin and Houston join alliance 16th May 12