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Take advantage of our many years of experience working with the Fresh Produce industry to streamline your coding, labelling, and inspection processes, including the use of fresh produce labels, and drive more productivity and better quality levels for your organization.
Matthews helps you overcome unique challenges of the Fresh Produce industry:
Short shelf life: You need reliable equipment that will not let you down and a partner who is available to support you when and where you need it
Seasonality of produce: You need flexible equipment and solutions that can code, label, weigh a range of produce
New laws introduced to protect consumers: You need solutions that are future proof and can adapt to meet new requirements, e.g. country of origin labelling
Major supermarkets and distributors guidelines: You need to be able to meet specific labelling, coding and quality rules for supply chain efficiencies
With our help, you can confidently invest in the right coding, labelling and inspection systems for your unique processing environment and product.
Providing compliance evidence to regulators and trading partners
The regulatory requirements lead to stricter reporting requirements. Retailers demand precise data from their suppliers and authorities are demanding detailed data on fresh food both imported and domestic.
Providing data to the consumer
Consumers are more and more interested to know the origin of the product they buy and how it was produced. Based on the traceability data suppliers and retailers can provide detailed and verifiable information on the package as well as online via website or mobile app.
Supplier management
Based on traceability data companies can tighten their supply chain partnerships. Upstream suppliers are able to provide accurate, real-time data and therefore establish trustworthy information exchange and strong relationships. Downstream the data can be used in order to communicate at the point-of-sale where goods are coming from and who processed them in what manner. This can support consumer trust. Furthermore, companies in the supply chain can evaluate the traceability data and its quality from their preliminary stage.
This enables setting data quality goals as part of an integrated supplier management.
Supporting product recalls
Traceability data are an essential prerequisite for the management of product recalls. It allows the analysis of the cause of an issue by tracing the origin of the product upstream, and quickly locate product lot/batches that were already distributed downstream.
A traceable object is an object whose supply chain path can, and needs to, be determined. Traceable objects can include both loose and packaged produce; cartons, re-useable containers used in transport; transport vehicles; etc.
A company must determine what needs to be traced. This is commonly referred to as the “traceable item.” A traceable item can be:
■ a product or traded item (e.g. case/carton, consumer item)
■ a logistic unit (e.g. pallet, transport container)
■ a shipment or movement of a product or trade item
■ an asset (e.g. re-usable tote, crate, bin)