Product Quality

• troubleshooting compositional and microbiological contamination issues
• developing market and competitor analysis programs
• data analysis to determine product consistency and related improvement initiatives

Hygiene Standards

• conducting audits to assess current state
• developing and advising on HACCP plans
• establishing Good Manufacturing programs
• personal hygiene programs
• cleaning schedules
• calibration schedules
• pest control
• testing programs
• employee hygiene education

Manufacturing Productivity

• developing data capture methods and systems to measure yield efficiency and related efficiency improvement programs
• conducting detailed analysis of manufacturing lines to determine where losses are occurring and implement loss reduction programs
• establish programs and procedures to ensure that gains made are retained over time.
  

Are you a smaller company?

Many small food processors consider the use of specialist advisors to be expensive, despite the existence of obvious and often persistent problems that are eating away at their profits.

In addition to offering competitive rates, FPO can prepare an up-front business case (cost:benefit analysis) to provide business owners assurance that their investment in advice will deliver tangible benefits.

Typical areas for improvement include:

• maximising yield of raw materials
• reducing waste from product changeovers
• reducing water and chemical usage
• improving product consistency
• reducing losses due to product downgrades
• ensuring gains made today are sustainable over time.