Are Food Ingredient Suppliers Trying to Game Customer Specifications?

Online, December 28, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The food manufacturing business is a continuous courtship between ingredient and raw material suppliers, processors, and manufacturers. A lot goes on - pun not entirely unintended. But how can manufacturers be sure that contractual agreements are being honored? Annual inspections are too infrequent, and most can only spot-check certificates of analysis or perform random lab sampling, lest they adversely affect the speed of commerce.

TraceGains, an information and hosted services provider to manufacturers in food, nutraceuticals, and chemicals, has learned of ways that are being used to deliberately or inadvertently attempt to circumvent ingredient specifications to bypass the QA process.

On January 5th, 2011, TraceGains will host a free webinar where the company will reveal six most commonly encountered tactics to confound quality, procurement, and strategic sourcing managers.

Additionally, TraceGains will discuss how even in-spec ingredients may negatively affect finished goods quality, and how to implement an automated supplier corrective action response system.

Interested parties can register for the webinar at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/919579794.

For additional information, email can be sent to [email protected].