FOOD DISTRIBUTORS FACE TRACEABILITY CHALLENGES WITH FSMA CHANGES

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From “factory to fork,” ensuring U.S. food safety and product integrity has always required a high level of accountability for producers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The operating environment is about to get even tougher given food safety regulatory updates to the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

The new FSMA mandates aim to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. Accordingly, FSMA establishes deadlines for food companies to create new manufacturing processes and requirements for testing, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting. Part of the ruling entails new measures for preventivecontrols around process, food allergen, and sanitation controls, as well as supply-chain controls and recall plans.

OVERVIEW OF REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

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WHAT FSMA CHANGES MEAN FOR FOOD DISTRIBUTORS Even though it has a preventive outlook, the FSMA mandates don’t diminish the importance of tracking food raw materials, ingredients and product throughout the supply chain.

Key Challenge Traceability and recall lot management capabilities are crucial for food producers and distributors. This means food manufacturers and distributors must have a robust and bullet-proof audit trail in place when it comes to product inventory, batch and lot traceability.

Key Capability HighJump DSD solutions help food and beverage distributors with this challenge by managing and tracking how the product data is recorded at the point of delivery to the customer at the specific outlet, whether store, restaurant, or bar. Our solutions make the process highly efficient with multiple options that include a barcode scan of the case lot, a prompted list of available lots (from the feed from your ERP or WMS) and manual “key” entry.

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Industry Expertise Our DSD solutions are customized to the specific food sector, such as bakery, dairy, or snacks, and unlike browser-based systems that rely on internet connectivity to function, our application-based solution means food distributors don’t lose valuable time or data.

Key Recommendation With the first FSMA deadlines for large food companies taking effect in September 2016, isn’t it time you took a closer look at your DSD solution? For more information, contact HighJump today.

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In almost every industry, buyers are becoming more fickle, and more demanding. For logistics executives, effectively meeting buyer needs has become a relentless quest for speed and agility. Traditional supply chain solutions – siloed, complex and hard-to-implement – no longer suffice, as competitors find ways to deliver goods faster and more profitably. In today’s “now” economy, HighJump helps you stay agile, with adaptable, connected solutions that harness the power of your trading partner community. From the warehouse to the storefront, from the desktop to the driver’s cab, we can help you achieve new levels of supply chain responsiveness, performance and profitability. HighJump’s suite of warehouse management, business integration, transportation management, and retail/DSD solutions form a complete, powerful and adaptable platform that allow you to drive growth, customer satisfaction and revenue.

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