02 — For our BNI chapter
If you hear someone say this, introduce them to us
01“Our biggest customer is asking for a food safety certificate.”
02“We got a major non-conformity at the last audit.”
03“The European buyer wants GMP+ before the next shipment.”
04“We are bidding for a government tender that needs ISO 9001.”
05“A client sent us a security questionnaire and we cannot answer it.”
06“Our FSSC certificate expires in four months and nothing is ready.”
07“We want to export but do not know which certificate we need.”
08“Our consultant gave us documents nobody in the plant uses.”
Any one of those sentences is a referral. Pass on our number, or drop their name on the contact page and we will make the first call ourselves.
03 — The perfect referral
Four businesses that need us this quarter
Edible oil
A refinery selling meal to Europe
Their buyer has asked for GMP+ B2 and they have never been through a feed-scheme audit.
GMP+ B1 / B2
Spices
An exporter losing a retail account
The UK retailer wants BRCGS Issue 9 and the last audit came back with fundamentals against them.
BRCGS Issue 9
IT services
A 60-person software firm
An enterprise prospect sent a security questionnaire they cannot answer without a certificate behind it.
ISO/IEC 27001
Packaging
A carton plant supplying food brands
Their customers are being audited and pushing the requirement one level down the chain.
BRCGS Packaging
04 — Before and after
What changes when we come in
Before
After
A binder of documents written by a consultant that nobody on the floor follows.
A system the shift supervisor actually runs, because it matches how the plant works.
Audit week is a fire drill — records recreated the night before.
Records are current because they are generated by the process, not for the auditor.
Major non-conformities that put the certificate at risk.
Findings closed at root cause, with evidence the auditor accepts first time.
Buyers asking for a certificate you cannot produce, and orders going elsewhere.
The certificate on file before the buyer asks, and the order kept.
Three separate systems, three audits, three sets of paperwork.
One integrated management system and one audit cycle covering all three.
