by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 11, 2017 | Management
What is Focussed Improvement Are you and your team inundated with an overload of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA’s)? Do you see a continuous history of not delivering your CAPA’s in full and on time? Do you struggle to get the right people and departments...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 4, 2017 | Management
Why you need a compelling multi-year plan A lot of companies do not know why they need to have clearly defined year plans which are written down, communicated to all employees and monitored on a continuous basis. Hence the results of these companies will be mediocre...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 28, 2017 | Management
Introduction Issue Management Most food production businesses face issues from time to time in the area of product quality and food safety. If the company has a strong quality culture most of the issues will stay internal, but might still upset the supply stability of...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 21, 2017 | Food Safety, Management, Quality
Have Succesfully Create Sense of Urgency Do you have difficulties as a Quality Manager to convince your senior management to give priority to quality and food safety? Do you struggle to get engagement from the wider organization when it comes to seeing the importance...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 14, 2017 | Food Safety
Introduction Are you sure your allergen management approach is 100% fool proof. Do you think you will never have issues with allergens in your products? Too often quality managers find out when it is too late that their allergen management approach was not fully...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 7, 2017 | Algemeen
Introduction Cost of Non Quality Do you find it difficult to get good insight in the cost of non quality in your organization? Do you often get nasty questions of senior management regarding costs? Do you struggle to show the real benefits of proper quality assurance...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Feb 28, 2017 | Management
Introduction Strong Team Historically, in a lot of companies, the quality department has been seen as the department to park those members of staff that were not functioning well elsewhere. It was thought that a non-performing person would not hurt the organization...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Feb 21, 2017 | Food Safety
Introduction Root Cause E. coli in Wheat Flour In 2016 E. coli outbreaks were one of the major issues globally leading to product recalls in the food industry. Especially the wheat industry has been hit hard: General Mills had a huge recall in 2016, the issue resulted...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Feb 14, 2017 | Food Safety
Introduction Listeria Monocytogenes Did you know that although the number of people infected by foodborne Listeria Monocytogenes is relatively low, Listeria Monocytogenes is one of the leading causes of death from foodborne illness? Next to creating nausea, vomiting,...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Feb 7, 2017 | Algemeen, Food Safety, Management, Quality
Introduction how manager can solve the problem Do you have a feeling you are managing quality for your organization just for compliance reasons, just to have a certificate on the wall? This happens in many organizations. What people fail to see is that real, impactful...
