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Quality
Management Software Solutions
for Food & Beverage |
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In the highly competitive
Food and Beverage industry,
customer driven demand gives
rise to rapid product development,
and reduced production cycles.
At the same time, strict
regulations from both the
FDA and USDA require that
companies implement a Quality
Management Software
system to ensure product
quality and process improvement.
Companies in the Food and
Beverage industry are faced
with many challenges including
quality of the products,
continuous improvement,
and quality that spans the
entire enterprise and supply
chain. EtQ has developed
a Quality
Management Software
system to help maintain
quality to these initiatives,
while providing a flexible
workflow platform to
adapt to changing business
processes, without programming. |
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Challenges
Facing the Food & Beverage Industry |
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Collaborative,
Enterprise Environment
Large food and beverage industries
with multiple divisions typically
have independent, hybrid systems
in place. Bridging the gap between
these systems is inefficient in
the long-term, and ultimately
will require expensive customizations
to link the enterprise. Re-routing
documents, meeting to discuss
integration strategy, and IT man-hours
in customizations result in lost
time and money. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
is designed to incorporate the
whole enterprise in collaborating
at the enterprise level, while
maintaining each division's independent
business workflow.
The result is a unified Quality
Management system that allows
for each division to collaborate
with the enterprise.
Unified
Quality Process
Too often, business processes
are disconnected, with complaint
handling forms, SOPs and the like
not connected to the next phase
in the record's life cycle. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
allows the process to be linked
automatically and intelligently.
Complaint
handling forms are assessed,
investigated, and opened as a
Corrective
Action if needed. SOPs are
linked to the employee
training database, and assignments
are sent. Risk
Assessment tools assess the
risk of records throughout the
process. This unified process
for handling Quality
Management issues results
in an efficient system, where
no time is lost and no problem
overlooked.
Business
System Integration
As more and more business systems
are implemented in an food and
beverage organization, the ability
to communicate between these systems
becomes difficult. As a result,
crucial processes are disjointed
and often rely on manual "jumping"
between systems, which can lead
to inefficiencies in the process.
EtQ's
Quality Management Software
features a robust integration
layer that allows for information
to be passed to and from external
systems, widening the scope of
the quality process to include
ERP, MRP, MES and other business
systems.
Advanced
Search and Reporting
Having a system store your documents
and records is often not enough
to ensure quality within a business.
The ability to rapidly retrieve
documents and generate reports
on the state of the quality operations
is a key need within the food
and beverage industry. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
features advanced tools to search
for documents, create custom views
within the application, and generate
template or ad-hoc
reports. |
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