Food Supply Chain Management and Best Practice
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- Introduction
- Objective
- Who should attend
In the management of food supply chains, criteria including the incoming quality of materials, processing methodology, storage conditions, outgoing quality, and much more must be documented at each link in the chain. Synchronizing and sharing this information among all of the parties along the chain is critical for enabling lot traceability, collaborative coordination and optimization of operations, product consistency and quality management, regulatory compliance, and ultimately, customer safety and satisfaction.
Food Supply Chain Management and Logistics Training course aims to provide particpants with the necessary technical knowledge in order to support the safe production of food within their roles. The course acknowledges the importance of a holistic, all-encompassing farm-to-fork supply chain focus across the food sector.
The course also aims to equip particpants with the essential practical and professional transferable skills to enable them to reach their potential within the food sector as well as academic, industrial, commercial, government, and environmental settings.
Course Outline
Food production
- Entities in the agriculture supply chain.
- Agriculture and poverty alleviation.
- The barriers to the development of the agri-industry.
- Future steps for the agriculture sector.
- Case example: Cargill works with producers on finance and risk management.
- Case example: Nestlé works with dairy farmers.
- Case example: ITC Ltd India empowers farmers through technology.
- Case example: Microfinance models within the food sector.
Food manufacturing
- The importance of food processing.
- Changing market conditions.
- Food processing.
- Food packaging.
- Inventory management.
- Food safety.
- Procurement.
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