QUALITY AND COMPLIANCE

Advanced Attributes Management improves the way food companies capture and manage product and batch characteristics. It enables accurate recording of all attributes essential to quality (analytical values, organoleptic criteria, nutritional specifications, origins, certifications) while supporting inheritance rules to avoid redundant data entry. This ensures that each batch has the appropriate technical information throughout the supply chain, improving traceability and facilitating the communication of information to customers and regulatory authorities.

Advanced Lot Management enhances traceability and auditability by tracking every interaction, modification, and reclassification of lots. It provides the detailed history required by modern food safety standards, while offering tools to manage consolidation, division, and transitions in the lot lifecycle. This enables the level of granularity in records expected during audits and crisis management scenarios.

Inspection Status introduces structured control over batch usability, ensuring that materials are only consumed, moved, or shipped after passing the required checks. By defining “blocked,” “under inspection,” or “validated” statuses directly in operational workflows, companies reduce quality risks, prevent non-compliant shipments, and enforce internal requirements without slowing down logistics execution.

Non-Conformance Management provides a dedicated process for capturing, analyzing, and resolving discrepancies, whether they are supplier defects, internal production issues, or customer complaints. It standardizes root cause investigations and corrective actions, ensuring that non-conformances become drivers of continuous improvement rather than sources of recurring problems. This results in greater transparency, improved supplier accountability, and enhanced risk control.

Quality Requirements & Specifications (QRS) form the basis for defining customer or supplier specifications. They centralize product requirements, tolerances, testing procedures, and acceptance rules, ensuring that each batch selected for an order, production run, or acceptance is evaluated according to the appropriate criteria. In a market where customers and authorities demand strict alignment with specifications, QRSs ensure full compliance and reduce costly disputes or product returns.

Process Document Management ensures that every operational step, from receiving and sampling to production and shipping, is supported by the appropriate procedures, certificates, and regulatory documents. It provides a structured and verifiable repository of process documentation directly in Business Central, ensuring that teams always work with the correct version while maintaining full traceability for audits.