Thoughts for Food 2015

Thoughts for food

2015

We integrate with GLOBALG.A.P. & Fera

Learn how these developments could shape the future of supply chain management.

Growing appetite for big data Bringing real-time decision making to businesses across the food supply chain.

What’s next for the food industry?

Welcome to the Muddy Boots magazine, Thought for Food.

Dear Readers I have been working in the food and farming industry for 30 years now and have witnessed tremendous change; both in terms of the way we produce our food and the growing number of mouths we are needing to feed.

As the realisation gradually dawns that the world is running out of food and we need to grow more from less, the spotlight has seemingly fallen on technology as the primary solution to overcoming the increasingly unsustainable situation we’re in. And there are many advocates of the theory that technology can significantly improve our food production efficiencies.

Our recent integration with GLOBALG.A.P. will significantly improve the whole process of making supply chains more transparent and providing your customers with safe, reliable and good quality food. Ben Horsbrugh, Director of Quality Management at UNIVEG Group says that this integration has allowed intelligent systems and intelligent people to work together to ensure that we are all operating in the most efficient way possible. You can hear more from Ben, along with some further information about this initiative on pages 5-6.

While all of this technology is critical in order to maintain transparent and safe supply chains, it will generate a huge amount of data that will need to be effectively harnessed. Cloud-based software that can receive increasingly diverse and complex data and absorb it on a single platform is the future of the food

industry; it means you only enter your data once and it can be shared with your suppliers and customers in real-time.

This type of collaborative supply chain technology will be one of the cornerstones of this relationship, particularly as the need for transparency continues to dominate the food industry post the horse meat scandal.

You can read our article on Big Data on pages 7-8, followed by our Top 10 reasons for using technology in your supply chain on pages 9-10 and how Unilever is connecting with its suppliers using our iPad app on page 12.

We have plenty of articles in here to stimulate some thought, so we hope you enjoy this edition of your magazine. You too can join in the conversation @MuddyBootsLtd. Best wishes Jonathan

Jonathan Evans Managing Director Muddy Boots Software

In this Issue: 3

Sharing the future of food and farming

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Let’s get social

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GLOBALG.A.P. and Muddy Boots integration - Univeg case study

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Big appetite for big data in the food supply chain

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Top 10 reasons for using technology in the supply chain

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Welcoming Greenlight Assessments

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iPad app in practice - Unilever case study

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How transparent is your supply chain?

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Our partnership with Fera

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Sharing the future of food and farming Jeff Goulding, our Business Development Director, talks about the shape of things to come.

We need to grow more from less, and as such, the spotlight has fallen on technology as the primary solution to overcoming the unsustainable situation we find ourselves in.

Advocates of the theory that technology can significantly improve our food production efficiencies are not alone. I can say this confidently, because we at Muddy Boots are with them. Thankfully, so are many of the big agricultural players and as such, I’ve have been very busy travelling around, sharing our knowledge on the subject.

It began in September 2014 when Jonathan Evans and I travelled to South Africa to speak at the Remitto ag-retailer Farmer Conference, discussing the future impact of technology in the agricultural sector. I then jetted off to Saskatchewan to talk to delegates at Cargill’s National Agronomy Meeting in Saskatoon.

At both events we were tasked with illustrating Muddy Boots’ vision of the future in Agricultural innovation, painting a vivid picture of things to come.

Exploring possibilities such as remote sensing, wearable technology and robotic farmers, we showcased who, and more to the point, what could be sowing and harvesting our crops in the not too distant future.

What Muddy Boots was keen to convey was that while all this potential technology is exciting, it will generate a

huge amount of data, which would need to be accurately and effectively harnessed.

Our Greenlight Grower Management platform is poised to receive increasingly diverse and complex data.

We will be able to absorb all of this data, process it within our system and feed it back to farmers and agronomists in a manageable and informative manner. Akin to the technology I identified in my talk, when it comes to the possibilities of what Grower Management can achieve; we’ve only really scratched the surface…

It was interesting to hear the chatter the presentation generated amongst the delegates as the industry begins to understand the exciting period agriculture is entering into; it is effectively a total paradigm shift.

After my trip to Canada, I had a quick stop back in Herefordshire before then heading east to talk at the GLOBALG.A.P. summit in Abu Dhabi. It was a real honour to be invited to talk at this prestigious event, and a perfect opportunity to showcase the breadth and depth of our offer, as well as our working integration with the GLOBALG.A.P. database.

While the summit in Abu Dhabi was a slightly less specific area of focus, compared to the Cargill conference, it still boiled down to the fact that the management of big data is going to be paramount in the sustainable provision of food globally.

Word on the Tweet @SainsburysNews All surplus food in our supply chain that’s fit to eat should go to people who need it.

@mike_eurofruit UK grocery sales in decline for the first time in 20 years.

@TheGrocer LED lighting is one of the most important sustainability innovations in recent time.

@LogiAnalytics Learn how @MuddyBootsLtd is leveraging Logi to provide customers insight across the food supply chain.

Connect with us @MuddyBootsLtd

Meet a Muddy team member!

ANNA POWELL, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER What’s your background?

After university I travelled and lived in New Zealand before settling in rural England. During my time working as an Office Manager for a food business I completed a professional marketing qualification and joined Muddy Boots shortly after this in 2007.

Explain your job: I develop new food business opportunities and manage our brandholder customers. My biggest customer is Unilever, I work very closely with the Unilever sustainability team but also with their 200+ global suppliers using our Greenlight Assessments software.

world. Suppliers face different challenges depending on their size, location, the raw materials they produce and their supply chain structure. I enjoy gaining an understanding of each business and seeing our software making a real difference.

What has been your biggest achievement so far?

The seamless migration of 150+ suppliers from one software platform to another at the same time as launching the new Unilever Sustainable Agriculture Code in our software.

If you could be anything in the world, what would you be?

A professional ballerina. I trained in ballet until the age of 18 but I was too tall to take it further!

What do you enjoy most about your job?

Working with so many interesting businesses from around

75m The population is growing by 75 million each year.

27 Food wasted in Europe last year weighs the same as 27 pyramids.

7,305 We use enough water in agriculture to fill 7,305 Empire State Buildings every day!

30% Agriculture generates 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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Greenlight Supplier Approval integrates with GLOBALG.A.P. Improving the process of making supply chains more transparent.

Our Greenlight Supplier Approval software has integrated with GLOBALG.A.P., making it easy for our customers to ensure that all products comply with GLOBALG.A.P.

Greenlight Supplier Approval Greenlight Supplier Approval is a secure, online system for managing and maintaining all information relating to the approval status of suppliers and supply chains, giving businesses total confidence that every product from every consignment comes from a validated source that meets their customers’ protocol.

With all supplier information held in one centralised and secure location, our customers have instant access, and complete visibility of the approval status of both products and suppliers.

The integration with GLOBALG.A.P. makes this process even easier.

Now, Greenlight Supplier Approval can sync certificate and grower information from the GLOBALG.A.P. (GG) database, driven by a unique GG number. This saves significant time by reducing the need to manually upload and monitor GLOBALG.A.P. certificates.

GLOBALG.A.P. database The GLOBALG.A.P. database stores and connects the assessment and certification data of more than 140,000 farms in over 115 countries, making it one of the largest online sources for certification data on food safety and sustainability. More than 140 GLOBALG.A.P. approved certification bodies around the globe use it to register and manage their clients’ certification data.

The GLOBALG.A.P. database is an important part of the organisation’s comprehensive Integrity Program. Reliable certification information, linked to other traceability data in the food chain, is key to proper quality management.

GLOBALG.A.P. integration in practice UNIVEG Group uses Greenlight Supplier Approval and GLOBALG.A.P.

Ben Horsbrugh, Director of Quality Management for the UVIVEG Group, explains why the integration between our Greenlight Supplier Approval software and GLOBALG.A.P. has been such a benefit for their business.

“In our worldwide network of depots, UNIVEG companies move huge volumes of fruit and vegetables every day.

For every palette and box we move, we have to have full control of the traceability, from field to fork.

“Connecting and tracking this traceability data is an extremely challenging process, which is almost impossible without the use of specialised IT systems.

“The Greenlight Supplier Approval tool from Muddy Boots is one of the key programmes we use to gather, monitor and manage the due diligence data and documentation from our global supply base. We’re not just talking about GLOBALG.A.P. (GG) certificates; we’re talking about quality agreements, traceability data, pesticide lists, residue reports and a wide range of other information which we need on a daily basis in order to comply with our customer requirements.

“One of the great things about the cooperation between Muddy Boots, GLOBALG.A.P. and Univeg is that the integration of these systems has resulted in massive time savings for our business.

“The GLOBALG.A.P. database and Muddy Boots database communicate with each other and ensure that all GLOBALG.A.P. data is up-to-date. This has a huge advantage for our business; we used to be uploading JPEGs and PDFs of all the GLOBALG.A.P. certificates we were receiving. Now, all we need to do in Greenlight Supplier Approval is enter the GLOBALG.A.P. number and everything else is completed automatically by the system. This means we

don’t have to worry about files being out of date or certificates being invalid, because the system informs us when this is happening.

Quality Management nowadays is not just about having a great tool like the GLOBALG.A.P. database or Muddy Boots’ Greenlight Supplier Approval; it’s about getting companies and systems to talk to each other. If we are going to manage all this data on a global scale, keep it up-to-date and save time and resources in the process, we need intelligent systems and we need intelligent people who work together to ensure that we are all operating in the most efficient way possible.

Ben Horsbrugh Director of Quality Management “For this reason we are pleased to be working with Muddy Boots, with GLOBALG.A.P. and with all our suppliers around the world to improve the whole process of making supply chains more transparent and providing our customers with safe, reliable and high quality food.”

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Big appetite for Big Data in the food supply chain Logi Analytics brings real-time decision making to Muddy Boots’ global customers

Picture this: an easy-to-digest, up-to-the-minute window on how your business is performing. That’s exactly what our customers now have, thanks to a new breed of advanced data visualisation tools from Logi Analytics.

visibility and real-time insight would allow our customers to understand how a producer is performing, ensure products match the required quality specification, and then make qualified business decisions to enhance efficiency.

Here, our Technical Director Jez Pile discusses the benefits this new technology brings to our customers;

“Visibility is key to our customers. Fruit and vegetables destined for UK supermarkets are grown all over the world and traceability, quality assurance and food compliance are paramount. An outbreak of e-coli or listeria can have a devastating effect on a crop producer and retailer, and even administration issues, such as incorrect labelling, can halt sales until the problem is resolved.

“Part of the problem for many of the firms that wanted ready-made business performance information has been an over reliance on the wrong tools. By the time you’ve built a report using traditional business intelligence tools, it’s out of date.

“We needed an embedded analytics system that would allow us to give our customers optimum value from both the data we capture, and from third party data – such as a food processing plant and a retailer. Increasing

Real-time analytics on the performance of your sites, suppliers and products for immediate decision-making.

“We work with organisations that manage the supply chain from the grower, through the supply chain, right up to the pack house and on to the supermarket shelves. With Muddy Boots, a retailer has a full history of a product – no matter where in the world it has been grown. This not only shows which grower has produced a crop, but also which individual field bed it came from, which pesticides and fertilisers have been used, and which quality checks have been made and when.

“Retailers are dealing with thousands of lines of products every day and the Logi dashboard from Muddy Boots allows managers to see what the issues are, using a performance score card and even word clouds that are in tune with their performance criteria. This gives them a great early warning system.

The information can be delivered to any mobile device such as a tablet, so even if a decision maker is out of the office, an issue can be picked up and acted on without delay.

“Having real-time information saves time, hassle and cost in managing products, and with this increased data flow, everyone has access to the information they need – be it production information from the supplier or data from the retailer’s EPOS system. The procurement team now has complete visibility to how an individual supplier is performing and changes can be quickly agreed upon to ensure quality is maintained.

“Presenting changes in this way helps to build a sustainable relationship between the parties, based on continuous improvement rather than a big stick approach,” concludes Jez.

Simplify the complexities of your supply chains with cloud-based software.

In practice Morrisons transforms real-time decision making across its supply chain

Morrisons is the fourth largest retailer in the UK, with over 500 stores across the country. They have been using our Greenlight Quality Control software, with its reporting capability to give them a real-time view of the performance of their supply base.

“Traceability, quality assurance and compliance is paramount for the products destined for our shelves.

Muddy Boots’ dashboard capability, powered by Logi, gives teams a real-time view of the performance of our supply base. We can now view site, supplier and product performance in one place, which has enabled us to drive significant efficiencies through waste reductions, and identify and mitigate risk from our supply chain.”

You can learn more about our data visualisation software by contacting Jack Evans and the team on: +44 (0)1989 780 540.

Hugh Mowat Head of Quality - Produce and Horticulture

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Let’s talk about tech Top 10 reasons for using technology to better manage supply chains within the fresh produce industry.

Back in 2013, the horse meat scandal brought food supply chains into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. In its aftermath, which is still ongoing to this day, major brands and supermarkets have had to pay more attention than ever to where their food came from, who supplied it and what checks are being carried out en route.

Thankfully, the explosive growth in digital technology seen in recent years isn’t just about music-sharing and video streams. There are many reasons why it can also help food retailers and suppliers work together to create a stronger, more resilient supply chain that stands up to the harshest scrutiny.

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Better collaborative working

Collaboration is key to a successful supply chain – and thanks to technology, no longer are the various stakeholders forced to work independently of one another. With software solutions in place, agronomists, farmers, food packagers, wholesalers and retailers can access, record and share activity simply over the web or offline using a mobile app.

Cloud-based systems, in particular, allow businesses to share relevant internal

information and the specific customers they are working with can enter information as well. They are live online systems that are visible to other parties, making it easier to keep information live and up to date. At any point in time, customers, producers and food processors can access and share information with a particular contractor, instead of having to rely on a phone call or email which may be missed.

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Go mobile

Internet-based solutions and the profusion of tablets and smartphones mean live data is accessible from anywhere, making suppliers truly mobile. They can even securely record, share and store their cropping data on the cloud whilst harvesting crops in the field. Alternatively, businesses can complete supplier assessments when travelling or during farm visits, making data collection and submission a more efficient and streamlined process.

Data can be entered on the go whether in a field, in a warehouse, or on the shop floor. The days when suppliers and assessors had to burn the midnight oil writing up their notes and laboriously entering records are gone forever.

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Manage in real time

The wireless syncing of data and notifications of record changes gives users immediate access to important information, so there’s no delay in making time-critical decisions. The Muddy Boots Greenlight Supplier Approval system, for example, allows users to manage by exception: only at the moment the software detects a problem are users prompted to take action. If everything is as it should be according to the predetermined compliance protocols, the software accepts it.

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You don’t have to be online 24/7

There’s been huge investment to improve connectivity in rural areas, which has resulted in significant advances and wider adoption of crop-recording software. But even so, new generation app technology and offline data capture mitigates any connectivity issues.

Business in the field can continue as normal even if users are offline, with data captured as usual and stored on an app, until connectivity is found and syncing kicks in.

Software allows businesses to accurately understand and trace the origin and quality standards of every link in the supply chain – something that paper records could never do.

These days, businesses can’t just accept that they ‘didn’t know their supplier was sourcing meat from an unknown company in another country’ – because their customers certainly won’t accept it.

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Tailor the system to your specific needs

Every business has its own supply chain approval systems and processes and no two are exactly the same. Fortunately, the software that now exists can be tailored specifically to track the specific audits each business requires.

For example, one brand might wish to track general industry standards for which ever market they’re serving, where as another brand could implement its own sustainability standards for their suppliers to adhere to. Software solutions such as those provided by Muddy Boots allow both businesses to manage their supply chains equally effectively – or a supplier that works with both companies can ensure the produce that goes to each has been audited to their own individual requirements.

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It’s not just about the product

Quality control and compliance involve more than just the food item itself – it’s about the quality and integrity of the people and organisations supplying it.

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It’s not just about food safety

Food safety risks may have been in the headlines recently, but they’re not the only elements of the supply chain that food and grocery businesses want to track. Many have sustainability requirements for suppliers to fit their own corporate social responsibility (CSR) objectives, and technology enables those to be recorded and managed just as effectively as health and safety compliance.

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Mitigating a greater risk

As noted above, food safety risk management has never been more important to businesses than it is right now. Errors are not just costly to fix, they can be enormously damaging to brand reputation and can have a significant impact on share prices.

Technology creates a valuable and accurate online audit trail so that food brands and retailers can know – and more importantly, prove – that all the disparate elements of their supply chains are fully compliant and up to scratch.

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Annual audits don’t cut it any more

Because the risk is greater, the need for more regular analysis is greater too.

Suppliers can’t just be audited every year; every individual lorry-load has to be approved, 24/7, 365 days a year.

It saves time

10 and money

The main reason businesses employ technology in any sector is to reduce costs and improve efficiency, and food supply chain management is no exception. Software solutions allow auditing and compliance to be trackedand managed far more cost-effectively, drastically reducing the number of man-hours involved and saving tens of thousands of pounds. The fact that they also ensure a safe, secure and fully compliant supply chain makes them even more appealing.

Solutions Our software is used by more than 2,000 food businesses in over 40 countries.

Our core products operate at every level of the food supply chain, making live data available anywhere, from field, to warehouse, to supermarket.

Manage the approval status of your suppliers.

Ensure product quality meets your customer requirements.

Easily manage any type of audit and assessment.

Share field and cropping data with all stakeholders.

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Welcoming Greenlight Assessments Tom Hermolle, our Product Development Manager, explains why Greenlight Assessments is a slicker and easier way of completing your audits and assessments.

We say a fond farewell to Quickfire – not the system, just the name. It’s the name that we gave to our audits and assessments software more than 10 years ago and we are proud of its journey from a data capture tool to an integral business system for some of the biggest food brands in the World.

But, our business is growing and the industry is changing and over the years Quickfire has significantly evolved; it’s full of functionality and important information that our customers need to access.

And so we have been working hard over the last few months to make the assessment process much quicker, and we’ve made the data really simple to access.

if nothing else, at least the name means something now!

The industry and our customers are no longer focusing on third party audits, but instead they are empowering their suppliers with self-assessments.

Easy access to great data The beauty of Greenlight is the easy and immediate access to data, represented visually with pie charts and graphs.

Now, with Greenlight Assessments, the homepage is all graphical, with nice doughnut pie charts, supported by useful colours and the ability to drill down into the important areas. This means that our customers can quickly identify the status of their audits and assessments.

Improvements in a nutshell Harmonisation The move from Quickfire to Greenlight Assessments is a really important step for us, and offers many advantages to our customers, as well.

Quickfire’s sole purpose is to underpin safety and integrity in the supply chain, it therefore seemed a natural progression for Quickfire to join our Greenlight suite of solutions; a well-known brand that resonates quality from grower to retailer.

It means that our customers of multiple products will no longer need to get to grips with very different platforms.

We’ll be using the same colour scheme, the same simplistic layout, the same icons, menus, and more. And,

Greenlight Assessments An overview Greenlight Assessments provides visibility of progress of any large scale data collection, ideal for measuring and addressing the performance of your supply chains.

It enables technical teams to securely and effectively schedule and complete audits and visits, through a single, collaborative system.

This software allows you and your suppliers to collaborate together on an assessment process, providing a common platform for information to be shared both up and down a supply chain.

Greenlight Assessments iPad App in practice Unilever uses new App to assess suppliers’ sustainability progress

Unilever is using our new Greenlight Assessments iPad app to gain immediate access to sustainability progress from its agricultural suppliers. Greenlight Assessments offers a portable data-collection solution and enables companies to collaborate with its suppliers on any type of audit or assessment, allowing information to be shared both up and down the supply chain.

The complex nature of the food industry dictates that many of our customers across the supply chain are required to complete lengthy assessments in order to satisfy their customers’ requirements. It is our job to simplify this process whilst maintaining rigour and data integrity.

The app works with and boosts our Greenlight Assessments system, a self-assessment system adopted by Unilever across its fresh produce supply chain in 2007. The system tracks and monitors progress against Unilever’s Sustainable Agriculture Code and helps to create evidence-based improvement plans.

It provides another simple and flexible way for Unilever suppliers to collect data. Assessments can now be completed when travelling or during farm visits, making data collection and submission a more efficient and streamlined process. This means that Unilever can view supplier sustainability achievements without delay.

Partnerships with our suppliers are key to us delivering the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and this is another step in the right direction.

David Pendlington Procurement Operations Director At the beginning of 2014, Unilever, PepsiCo, Heineken, M&S and other members of The Cool Farm Institute (CFI) launched The Cool Farm Tool, a new carbon-management web app to help farmers assess and improve the environmental and economic performance of their businesses. The CFI, a project of the Sustainable Food Lab, used the launch of the Tool to also call for greater industry collaboration on agricultural sustainability, saying that, due to the scale and complexity of the challenge, more cooperation is essential to secure an environmentally responsible, climate resilient and economically sustainable food system.

Our app is available for Greenlight Assessments customers for free at the iTunes App Store.

Apps and mobile technology are being employed by brands in a number of industries to provide greater supply chain visibility.

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How transparent is your supply chain?

Transparency along the supply chain, from field to fork, has become increasingly important.

The food industry has been working towards better transparency for some time, but there’s now a real sense of urgency to rebuild consumer trust and prevent food scandals from taking place. The importance of quality assurance now ranks high on the agenda of most food businesses as the consequences for getting this wrong can be catastrophic; resulting in lost sales and lost share value. This isn’t a risk any business can afford to take, and it’s damaging to any brand.

management of this information is fundamental to mitigating risk.

In a nationally representative study, 38% of 900 food samples turned out to be something other than what was claimed, highlighting the abundance of fake food, an issue that with decreased testing looks to be sticking around.

The Muddy Boots solutions provide complete transparency of the product journey from grower to retailer, and each member of the supply chain can access, update and share this information. This means that quality is managed and measured throughout the supply chain and ensures that everyone is focused on the end-customer compliance requirements.

It begs the question, where will the food industry be if budgets to carry out testing continue to be cut, putting the public at risk and deteriorating brand trust?

Looking at the big picture, third-party testing is only one component of the compliance process. There should be a drive for all supply chain partners to take a more active role to provide total visibility of the other elements of due diligence.

Full transparency of who is in your supply chain, where your product is coming from and evidence of the due diligence that is taking place are just some of the areas that need to be managed every day in order to mitigate risk.

Often quality and compliance data is built-up using a range of different systems that lead to multiple streams of data, which can make it difficult to see how your supply chain is performing. Improving the

By working with technology systems that capture all quality and compliance data, businesses and their suppliers will have easy access to the information that tells them that every product has come from a reliable, approved source and meets customer expectations and compliance regulations.

Food businesses who manage and measure these areas of quality and compliance will have a greater degree of visibility and knowledge of their supply partners and the ability to isolate impact. There’s now a real understanding that any internal compliance process needs to go back to the source, and data needs to be shared up and down the supply chain. We’re not just measuring the performance of your suppliers, but also your suppliers’ suppliers…right to raw material and back again.”

Of course, issues like food fraud are very difficult to manage, and there’s no simple solution. But with technology in place to offer complete transparency businesses will have the competitive advantage; faring better than others in the glare of public scrutiny, as they will be able to pinpoint any problem areas and take action without delay.

Fera partnership Pesticide usage partnership between Fera and Muddy Boots has the potential to shape future policy Andy Reeves, Finance Director at Muddy Boots, and Dr. R Angus Hearmon, Director of External Affairs at Fera, signing the contract.

The traditionally laborious and time consuming task of manually managing PPU’s is now a thing of the past.

This is thanks to our new partnership with the UK Government’s Food & Environment Research Agency (Fera); a collaboration which could provide retailers with a unique solution to help inform future policy.

Fera’s vast, government recognised pesticide database has been loaded into our audit and assessment software, Greenlight Assessments, allowing suppliers and retailers to accurately and automatically cross-reference PPUs against individual retailer pesticide requirements.

In essence, what sits behind the Greenlight Assessments platform is a “giant mixing bowl of data”, consisting of live PPU data, Fera’s government certified pesticide data and a specific retailer’s requirements.

While that’s all churning away in the background, the end result for the user is quick, simple and accurate access to relevant pesticide information. Whether it be a retailer obtaining PPU data from a supplier, or a supplier searching for clear information regarding a specific retailer’s requirements and Fera’s corresponding pesticide recommendations. It’s all there at the tap of a button.

The benefits Retailers will be able to protect their brand by reducing the risks associated with pesticide residue, with complete visibility of the status of pesticide use. This will in turn, allow them to influence change and drive quality down the supply chain.

Suppliers will experience huge time savings and therefore reduced costs, as well as improvements in due diligence and transparency. Equally, growers using this system can remove duplication of the pesticide information that they are required to provide.

This partnership comes at a key time in Muddy Boots’ development. This new functionality will bring huge value to the food supply chain; allowing retailers and shoppers to have total confidence that the produce available in store meets government and retailer standards for pesticides. It is something our customers want and we are very pleased to be able to deliver this to them.

Our knowledge solutions experts have extensive experience in the design of products which allow producers and retailers to identify, manage and mitigate risks from a variety of potential food contaminants. We are pleased to be working with Muddy Boots on this new partnership, which will provide vital support to businesses involved in the food supply chain, from field to fork, ensuring high standards of food and environmental safety’

Adrian Belton Chief Executive

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Visibility, from grower to retailer

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