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Your warehouse food safety partner.
Certification Consulting and Guidance
Often a warehouse customer will inquire about a particular certification which is required in order to do business. Most of these warehouse certification inquiries are related to the different “flavors” within the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). Among these versions are Safe Quality Foods (SQF) or IFS Logistics but there are others as well. With Daily Consulting Certification Guidance services, you can be assured you will get the very best in terms of completing or renewing this certification request as we have many years successful customer engagements in this regard.
Daily Consulting LLC offers GFSI and GMP Certification Path Management Services to food-grade warehouses. We have successfully assisted several warehouse clients to acquire and/or renew their GFSI and GMP certifications.
The Safe Quality Food Institute follows “One World, One Standard” and is one of the popular schemes within GFSI certification domain. Daily Consulting LLC has experience to get you GFSI certified in a timely manner. It virtually provides assurance for the maintenance of food safety and quality. When it comes to acquiring the SQF certifications, we can help you with SQF Module 9.0.
SQF certification supports industry or branded products and provide advantages to certified sites and their clients. It is an assurance that the warehouse’s food safety plans have been laid in accordance with the CODEX HACCP guidelines as well as appropriate regulatory requirements. This specific certification shows that the system has been qualified and determined effective to ensure food safety. In addition, it’s a statement of the food-grade warehouse’s commitment to:
- Produce quality food
- Comply with the guidelines of the SQF codes
- Comply with applicable food regulations
SQF Certification
The Safe Quality Food Institute follows “One World, One Standard” and is one of the popular schemes within GFSI certification domain. Daily Consulting LLC has experience to get you GFSI certified in a timely manner. It virtually provides assurance for the maintenance of food safety and quality.
SQF Certification
The Safe Quality Food Institute follows “One World, One Standard” and is one of the popular schemes within GFSI certification domain. Daily Consulting LLC has experience to get you GFSI certified in a timely manner. It virtually provides assurance for the maintenance of food safety and quality. When it comes to acquiring the SQF certifications, we can help you with SQF 8.1 module.
SQF certification supports industry or branded products and provide advantages to certified sites and their clients. It is an assurance that the warehouse’s food safety plans have been laid in accordance with the CODEX HACCP guidelines as well as appropriate regulatory requirements. This specific certification shows that the system has been qualified and determined effective to ensure food safety. In addition, it’s a statement of the food-grade warehouse’s commitment to
- Produce quality food
- Comply with the guidelines of the SQF codes, and
- Comply with applicable food regulations
GMP Certification
The documentation of Good Distribution Practices (GDP) and their corresponding fundamental programs (Pest Control, Glass and Brittle Plastics…) are essential for a good score on Food Safety Audit. You and the execution of these program and we can help with the documentation and administration.
GMP Certification
GMP stands for Good Manufacturing Procedures or GDPs (Good Distribution Procedures), which is basically a list of best practices that determine whether your facility is safe for storing food products or not. In order to acquire GMP certification, you must demonstrate the certified agency that your location is adhering to the standards set by GMP.
Organic Certification
Organic certification has become extremely popular with food processors. DCLLC has partnerships with Ecocert and other certifying entities to help you achieve your organic certification for your warehouse.
Organic Certification
The USDA certification will verify that your facility complies with the USDA National Organic Program regulations. It is necessary to give assurance to your clients that organic food stored in your warehouse is 100% safe.
HACCP Certification
Proof of HACCP training for some personnel in the warehouse is often a requirement for most Food Safety certifications. DCLLC can ensure the right people are trained and can assist with any preparation of final examinations for personnel.
HACCP Certification
It is a necessary prerequisite to get different food certificates like GMP, GFSI, Organic, etc. Under this, we focus on the 7 key principles that are listed below to make you HACCP certified.
- Carry out Hazard Analysis of chemical, physical, and biological food hazards
- Figure out vital control points
- Establish important control limits, for instance, minimum storage temperature
- Establish a monitoring system of Critical Control Points
- Figure out corrective actions
- Establish a verification process to confirm the effective functioning of the HACCP system
- Ensuring proper documentation and record maintenance
Professional Compliance Consulting Services
Food products need more care and audits than other categories of products that are stored at a 3PL warehouse. You must know this fact that a full-time compliance consultant can cost your business more than $50,000 annually. Additionally, there are longer gaps between planned audit dates, which can considerably lower the asset utilization of this special resource. For example: You may have GMP audit in January and you can have GFSI audit in July then in this 6 month of time the person you have hired for auditing would be underutilized, which makes an unnecessary addition to your cost sheet. Therefore, to ensure proper utilization of human resources at your warehouse and reduce cost, you can hire us on demand for warehouse auditing.
We, at Daily Consulting LLC, have managed to provide several food-grade warehouses with the superior audit scores and can potentially do the same for you without costing you too much and unnecessarily.
While maintaining warehouse food safety compliance, certifications such as SQF, GMP, HACCP, ASI Food Safety are necessary to show that you comply with the guidelines laid by the AIB- international inspection organization. We not only help with SQF certification, documentation of GMP procedures, but also offer you the whole compliance process documentation services.
Process Improvement Services and Economical Analysis
Existing Processes within a food grade warehouse can appear “all too familiar” to the warehouse staff that is responsible for completing a certain task. This familiarity can lead to many inefficiencies which ultimately show up in increased labor dollars.
Therefore, it is a good practice to review various processes in detail. Daily Consulting has completed many process improvements within our customer base. During this process review we will Map the Process with flow chart symbols and measure the actual time it takes to complete this process via time study analysis. From this information, we can plan a path to success for a revised, more efficient process.
Why Training in the first place?
Training by Daily Consulting
A recent career advice column listed on Indeed.com featured the benefits of training. These include the following:
- It improves skills and knowledge.
- It satisfies the recommendations of performance appraisals.
- It prepares employees for higher responsibilities.
- It shows employees they are valued.
As a result of the Food Safety Management Act (FSMA) and other legislation, the number rules and regulations in regards to food safety in the warehouse. In addition, if you are a food-grade warehouse operator, you may be asked to meet the requirements of the GFSI scheme such as Safe Quality Food (SQF) or IFS Logistics. One of the primary requirements of these schemes is proper food safety training for your associates. associated with employees’ training on GMP, Allergen Management, HACCP, and food defense. Through this training, employees will understand their role in maintaining food safety.
Daily Consulting LLC constructed a food safety training program specific to the requirements relating to food grade warehouses and the safe handling of food products. Our training program for our customers includes the courses listed below, which can be taught in person or via audio/video conference call.
This introductory course of our food-grade warehousing training program can be positioned as necessary for all new employees within 6 months of their employment date. It covers mandatory responsibilities for warehouse and customer service employees. They will be trained on subjects related to implementing Good Distribution Practices GDPs and meeting food regulatory requirements.
After analyzing the needs of the food-grade companies and considering GDPs and GMP, we have devised this course for efficient employee training and there are 10 modules in this course, which are listed below:
1. Food Safety
2. Allergens
3. Organic Products
4. Blood Pathogens
5. Air Borne Pathogens
6. Food Defense/FSMA
7. HACCP
8. Regulatory and Media Affairs
9. Glass and Brittle Plastics
10. Pest Control
11. Chemicals
12. Physical Hazards
13. Chemical Hazards
14. Biological Hazards
15. Personal Hygiene
16. Pandemic Operations
For those employees who have already completed Food Safety 101 training and have been with your company for over 1 year, then Food Safety 201 Training is the next level of education. This course works especially well for those warehouses who are in the process or have completed a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) direction such as Safe Quality Food (SQF).
1. Devising & implementing Good Distribution Practices (GDPs)
2. Implementing Food Regulatory requirements
3. Steps recognized by the hazard analysis and/or other instructions, which are considered vital for effective application of food safety plan
4. Tasks identified as important to meet the effective application and maintenance of the Safe Quality Food (SQF) system.
5. Food Safety Policy
6. Complaint Management
7. Food Safety Management System
8. Document Control
9. Good Storage and Distribution Practices
10. Product Release
11. Validation and Effectiveness
12. Verification Activities
13. Corrective and Preventative Action
14. Internal Audits and Inspections
15. Product Withdrawal and Recall
16. Food Defence Plans
Daily Consulting LLC is at your service with an in-depth, convenient, and affordable food safety training program.
Course 3: Internal Auditing 101
This course is developed for Current and Future SQF practitioners, which is imparted just once every year as required SQF. Through this course, our employees learn the internal SQF audit process from beginning to end: planning an audit, conducting an audit, record your findings, and manage your opening & closing meetings.
We will provide training to employees with the help of the following 8 modules:
1. Type of Audits
2. The Opening Meeting
3. Gathering Information
4. Recording Observations
5. Measuring Evidence Vs Standard
6. Closing Meeting
7. Reporting and Archiving
Project Management
The Quality Circle or Scope Circle depicted here shows the trade-offs hidden in any project.
The circle illustrates the connection between three key elements in a project- Time, Quality, and Cost. Let us first make you understand these elements:
- Time: the available amount of time for project delivery.
- Quality: the fit-to-purpose, which a project must attain to be successful.
- Cost: the available amount of money/resources.
The general situation is that one of these aspects is fixed and other two inversely vary to each other. For instance, time is usually fixed and the product quality will be based on the cost or resources available. In the same manner, if the quality of the end product is fixed then project’s cost will greatly be dependent upon the amount of time available. A smart person will be wondering the scenario when two of the factors are fixed. At this point, the concept becomes interesting. Usually, this happens when costs are fixed and there is a fixed deadline for project delivery. Then, if the scope begins to creep you have just single option left- compromise on functionality. This is more usual than you might think. Compromising on functionality may seem a drastic step, but an experience project management company like Daily Consulting LLC will smartly handle this situation. As far as the core needs remain same, everything will be sorted. In addition, functionality can always move to further release, but if core functionality isn’t delivered, there would not be a further release. A process famous as “scope crunch” can be associated to the circle too. Scope crunch is nearly unavoidable tendency any project has to get new functionality. Some crunches are inevitable due to which your project will get poorly defined; thus, your project will need involvement. A large amount of scope crunch however can be terrible. When the scope begins to creep then it can only be covered with the introduction of a new functionality. This is represented by the “Quality” aspect of the scope circle. It shows the ability of the product to meet the requirements of the clients. In simple words, a better-quality product/service will satisfy more customers. In this scenario, there are only three choices:
- Increase time: delaying a project to have more time for functionality addition.
- Increase cost: more people can be hired to do extra work.
- Compromise on Quality: eliminate some unnecessary things to bring new things that are needed the most for that project.
We believe that the art of managing project lies in quick decision making. When there is scope creep in your project management, we can tackle it more efficiently with our custom project management approaches. To Daily Consulting LLC, professional & successful project management means meeting the client’s project objectives by sticking to budgets and time schedules while maintaining the highest quality for operating a profitable warehouse. Our customers assign us their whole project management responsibility, be it a new food-grade warehouse or facility modernization. In this way, they can concentrate on their main competencies and their daily business activities. With Daily Consulting LLC, you can optimize your entire internal logistics from receipt to dispatch of products, with an autonomous and holistic approach. For us as your project management partner, independence from individual project management and suppliers are the matter of course. Your Benefits at a Glance when you opt for warehouse food safety administration outsourcing:
- Compliance with your project goals, time schedules, budgets, and quality standards
- Early identification of deviations and shortages so countermeasures can be taken beforehand to guarantee the project’s success.
- Transparent approach and reporting
- You’ll be free to handle your other business operations.
Preparation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
It is important to know the difference between Food Safety Execution and Food Safety Administration. It is the responsibility of the food grade warehouse to successfully execute sound Food Safety programs on a daily basis. However, the administration of these activities can be outsourced to capable partners such as Daily Consulting, LLC. Daily Consulting LLC has necessary writing skills and resources to implement and maintain SOPs for warehouse compliance consulting service provider in the Central US. We have got specialization in delivering the compliance consulting services for the food-grade warehouses. Over these years, we’ve helped numerous warehouse owners in maintaining Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs that will assist all workers to carry out the most complex routine tasks in a simplified way. Our purpose behind the preparation of SOPs is to increase workers’ productivity, quality output, and conform with the industry GFSI standards, and finally, updated SOPs serves as an excellent training tool for new employees. Someone once said, “…if it’s not written down then it doesn’t exist”. Timely preparation and maintenance of warehouse food safety standard operating procedures is a necessity within the Food Safety Administration. The execution of the food safety plan is the responsibility of warehouse operations. However, the administration associated with executing this food safety plan can and should be outsourced. Daily Consulting can create and maintain your food safety sops to ensure compliance and effectiveness.