Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Sustainable development

Capacity Building of Public and Private Sector Stakeholders in Traceability Systems

Tiempo de lectura: 3 mins.

Under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary (SPS) Project, a highly-interactive course featuring an in-depth look at how you can gain a competitive advantage and improve your bottom line by enhancing your existing traceability system, was held public and private sector stakeholders. This comprehensive course also provided examples and case studies on traceability best practices. The Facilitators examined how food companies recognize efficiencies and gain market share by enhancing their traceability systems.

Under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary (SPS) Project, a highly-interactive course featuring an in-depth look at how you can gain a competitive advantage and improve your bottom line by enhancing your existing traceability system, was held public and private sector stakeholders. This comprehensive course also provided examples and case studies on traceability best practices. The Facilitators examined how food companies recognize efficiencies and gain market share by enhancing their traceability systems.

The course was geared for food industry professionals and was recommended for all plant managers, supervisors and team leads in food safety, defense, quality assurance, quality control, and logistics, shipping and receiving. It is designed for personnel who are interested in learning how to enhance their existing traceability systems and would benefit from this current-events based curriculum format provided by knowledgeable, experienced industry and regulatory professionals.

All attendees received a course binder with group activity & template forms in industry-usable format with supporting reference materials.

The Course had as its Objective:

  • Teaching the basic principles of traceability through lectures and hands-on group break-out sessions
  • Discovering how to make traceability investment work to your advantage
  • Evaluating how to currently collect and manage traceability information
  • Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement of processes in order to gain added value through better supply chain management, reduced costs, improved profit margins, increased efficiencies and greater market potential
  • Explaining ways that enhance competitive advantage
  • Exchanging real-world “best practice” advice with other industry professionals and experienced instructors from varied backgrounds and experiences.

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