Key Takeaways
- Qualify and monitor suppliers based on capabilities and performance. View Patrick’s Plan for Qualification & Monitoring of Suppliers for Plastics Packaging
- Supplier evaluations include self-assessments, visits, audits, and certifications.
- Evaluate raw materials, additives, inputs, and packaging for suitability and intended use.
- Trust but verify certificates of analysis and check incoming materials for compliance.
- Keep score and look for opportunities to reduce costs throughout the supply system.
- Understand legal and ethical obligations by actively listening to customers.
- Change mindset from ‘we are in the packaging industry’ to ‘we are in the food/pharmaceutical’ industry.
- Integrate the product safety management system into the existing business system framework. Keep it simple.
- Follow John’s Big Eight Elements of the Product Safety Management System.
- Initiate pre-audit preparations well before the certification audit. Consider training, site assessment and monitoring, and audit support.
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