Data Explosion Threatens Food Safety

AIBI auditors, management, and support staff plan and schedule audits, establish inspection criteria, execute audits, submit and collect audit results, track findings and issues, and create audit reports with ease and efficiency. The interdepartmental coordination is streamlined, and many processes are automated. The team can add more processes as needed without exorbitant costs for the client.

Apart from optimizing audits, the solution has introduced transparency for AIBI management to evaluate business performance and identify services from which clients may benefit. This transparency is passed on to AIBI’s clients through more efficient single-event reporting and greater trend analysis. Later this year, AIBI intends to offer a web-based portal to clients who wish to slice and dice data in a variety of scenarios.

Identifying the framework most relevant to the nuances of the food business specific to the organization, implementing a food safety system woven around that framework, ensuring that all the structural as well as supervisory elements are in place, and supplementing the system with a robust and intelligent technology solution are some of the critical stages in achieving food safety and quality in today’s heterogeneous food industry. Placing food safety values in the center of an organization’s management philosophy ensures continuous strength and efficiency of the system in the long run.

Susan Hancock leads development of performance improvement services, products, and platforms as head of instructional design and customer development at AIB International. Keri Dawson is vice president of ComplianceOnline Advisory Services for MetricStream. A former director with KPMG, she has more than 14 years of consulting experience in audit, risk, controls, and compliance.