You care about the quality of your project\u2019s ingredients and take pride in knowing your ingredient choices impact the health of your consumers.<\/p>\n
In recent times, high-quality ingredients have become unavailable because of poor supplier relations. Difficulties crop up when suppliers fail to offer:<\/p>\n
When demand for a product is high your success hinges on the relationships you maintain with your best suppliers.<\/p>\n
Although you can prepare your project to perfection, high-quality ingredients are hard to come by if you don\u2019t have established transparency and reliability with your suppliers.<\/p>\n
Those who find success do so by:<\/p>\n
Follow these 5 simple steps to evaluate your supplier relationship and to determine the right ingredient partners moving forward.<\/p>\n
Create a list of criteria related to product development, quality assurance, and manufacturing that your supplier must have in order to consider them.<\/p>\n
Examples of criteria are:<\/p>\n
Quality assurance is essential; and, when partnering with the right ingredient supplier<\/strong><\/a>, request the following from potential vendors to ensure they are meeting minimum GFSI requirements:<\/p>\n Other items included on the specification sheet for the ingredient may be key quality attributes like:<\/span><\/p>\n All ingredient suppliers you consider should have a history of supplying superior product and value-added service. When sampling the ingredient, be sure to institute your new sample ingredients into your goods to gain appropriate testing and feedback. During testing, be sure to see if your distributor is open to sharing the following:<\/span><\/p>\n If an independent auditor is used, make sure their report does not indicate any critical issues. <\/span><\/p>\n When a sample is received, do the following to ensure quality of goods:<\/span><\/p>\n Choosing the right ingredient supplier may be complex, but it\u2019s critical to the success of the final product in terms of both quality and safety. To minimize the risk to your company, choose the ingredient source wisely. Then, confirm this source when it arrives and test the product to verify that it meets expectations and is safe to use. Finally, document all these steps to validate your commitment to product quality and safety.<\/p>\n To find success, you\u2019ll need to work with a supplier who supports your quality assurance efforts and is transparent with their supply chain. Seawind Foods takes the time to develop deep and lasting partnerships with processors across the globe. To learn more about Seawind Foods and their qualifications, be sure to fill out the contact form on the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You care about the quality of your project\u2019s ingredients and take pride in knowing your ingredient choices impact the health of your consumers. In recent times, high-quality ingredients have become unavailable because of poor supplier relations. Difficulties crop up when suppliers fail to offer: Consistent quality of ingredients Flexible and optimal delivery Long-term reliability of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sourcing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aronia.techstride.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Research Supplier Partnerships When Requesting a Sample<\/h2>\n
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Ensure Quality Upon Sample Delivery<\/h2>\n
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