HACCP/GFSI
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Consumers are increasingly concerned about food safety as incidents of food-borne illness receive more attention. Additionally, the size of the food industry and the diversity of products and processes have grown tremendously -- in the amount of domestic food manufactured and the number and kinds of foods imported. As a result, there is increasing vigilance over compliance with the food safety regulations, the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system (HACCP) and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certifications. That increase in vigilance is a worldwide trend due to the demand for worldwide equivalence of food products, and the HACCP philosophy, “from farm to fork.” In short, everyone is responsible for safe food products.
This philosophy is driving food manufacturers to shift reliance on effective enterprise-wide management systems rather than individual defect management. Companies need to think of the system as a whole - a global program, trained employees, well-documented SOPs/SSOPs, and utilizing technology properly to put global practices and procedures in place. With an integrated risk, compliance and quality system, companies can ensure consumer confidence, enable continued compliance with regulatory requirements, and gain a competitive edge.
Pilgrim Software’s Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management platform supports safety and quality compliance programs in the food and beverage industry. The web-based solutions enable manufacturers to ensure the highest quality and safety of their products while boosting productivity, reducing material waste and overhead costs, and ultimately protecting brand image and market share.
Pilgrim equips its customers to meet three major challenges. With Pilgrim’s solution you:
1. Ensure Regulatory Compliance
Companies face increasing frequency of inspections, regulatory warnings, and product recalls. The complexity and span of regulatory requirements and expected certifications are increasing from the FDA, USDA, EPA, DOT, other domestic and international regulatory agencies as well as the demand from large retailers and wholesalers.
Pilgrim’s solution helps ensure compliance with these regulations, thereby minimizing risk, avoiding the potential for costly recalls, and securing brand reputation. Its pre-built tools enable electronic signatures and automate regulatory recordkeeping, and help your company conduct safety, risk and compliance monitoring by establishing flexible, global workflows for product complaint resolution, nonconformances, corrective actions and audits.
2. Reduce Cost
Homegrown, non-integrated and manual management systems require paper-and labor-intensive processes and result in a lack of data visibility across the enterprise. Impacts include higher IT administrative and overhead costs, less IT productivity and ineffective resource utilization.
Pilgrim’s solution integrates people, processes, products and systems under one automated enterprise solution. This provides for timely data across the enterprise, reduces risk and reduces the labor requirements by eliminating paper-intensive processes, and lowers administrative and overhead cost. Looking one step further, with good documentation standards and practices, and a fully automated document management and SOP training and enforcement system, companies can show a commitment to food and consumer safety which can assist a manufacturer in defending itself if involved in any liability litigation.
3. Reduce Cycle Time, Improve Efficiencies & Boost Productivity
Organizations are pressured to do more with less - less time and tighter operating budgets. Companies are falling victim to the time and cost of handling documents, change management, identifying and resolving problems in product development and introductions, managing supplier quality, maintaining equipment and ensuring a trained workforce.
Pilgrim’s solution assures that there are linkages between processes, safety and quality systems, and across multiple facility locations. The software interfaces with a company’s internal systems (including ERP/MRP, MES, HR, CRM, PLM and PDM), to ensure that compliance and quality are part of the entire product lifecycle management. The result is streamlined decision making, lowered costs for bringing new products to market, and the elimination of product recalls.
Added Support
Pilgrim Software provides valuable Professional Services to help ensure that your quality and compliance program is a complete success. Pilgrim’s expert staff of consultants provides everything from project management to system customization to validation, and helps you minimize your risk and maximize your return on investment.
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The Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management Platform
Pilgrim Software provides a centralized, enterprise–wide, fully web-based solution for managing adverse event reporting, change control management, complaint handling, corrective and preventive actions, document control and content management, engineering drawing control and collaboration, employee certification and training, equipment maintenance/calibration, internal and external audits, nonconformance management, process management, regulatory submissions, risk management, SOP enforcement, and supplier quality management.
This powerful platform enables you to manage product safety while complying with regulatory requirements; reduce manufacturing and operational costs; increase overall productivity; and, improve customer satisfaction by managing the critical processes that govern your organization.