Eugene Barg
Hello, I was asked recently about ISo and here is my answer. Hope somebody will find this information useful. iDempiere ERP/SCM provides exellent opportunities to facilitate ISO 22000 certification, for example in the food industry. Moscow-based ‘U Palicha’ brand has used them to achieve it’s FSSC 22000 v5 (ISO 22000+ISO 22002) certification and re-certification by SGS - the world’s leading certification body. Tens of thousands of cakes, pies, packed salads and other types of fresh produce are being manufactured daily under ‘U Palicha’ brand, in the biggest European metropolitan area - Moscow, in compliance with strict requirements of FSSC 22000 v5.
Chuck Boecking very clearly and succinctly describes the essence of ISO certification project:
Say what you do
Do what you say
Prove that you did it
ISO certification project in an organization is not necessarily an IT project
It is a broader project for improving the management system of organization by bringing a risk oriented approach.
Nevertheless the IT system and IT team of an organization can greatly facilitate such a project in all 3 parts stated by Chuck, with the latter ‘prove’ part being an obvious main beneficiary.
The scope of ISO certification project within your iDempiere ERP/SCM installation
must take into account a cost-benefit ratio and may include everything between:
maintaining everything related to ISO certification and audit in your iDempiere ERP/SCM
maintaining in your iDempiere ERP/SCM just the most numerous or easy to collect facts subject to certification audit
The scope of ‘U Palicha’ FSSC 22000 v5 certification project performed with the help of iDempiere ERP/SCM can be described as follows:
All methodological documents constituting the Quality Management System are maintained in paper form.
List of Manufacturers of raw materials distinct from and additional to vendors list is maintained in iDempiere ERP/SCM.
Each individual batch of incoming raw materials is registered by a specific line in Material Receipt electronic document in iDempiere ERP/SCM along with essential specific details.
Incoming paper documents from vendors and manufacturers that are required for traceability (f.i.veterinary certificates) are scanned and linked to Material Receipt line.
Records of essential Quality Assurance and Control procedures (such as results of extensive microbiological and physical/chemical laboratory tests conducted with samples of raw materials, semi-finished and finished goods) are maintained in iDempiere ERP/SCM.
Rules for automatic start of a workflow of essential Quality Assurance and Control procedures are maintained in iDempiere ERP/SCM along with indication of specific parameters to be tested and their respective tolerance ranges.
Communication of the important information coming from Quality Assurance and Control procedures to all interested parties is done within and/or with the help of iDempiere ERP/SCM.
If an individual batch of incoming raw materials is rendered as having parameters out of the scope of tolerance range this batch is automatically prevented from being used in transactions other than the recall process.
Manufacturing Bills of Materials are maintained in iDempiere ERP/SCM.
All transactions with raw materials including issue in the production process are registered in iDempiere ERP/SCM with identification of raw material batches.
Transactions with some raw materials that are required by law to be reported to a newly introduced national traceability system are automatically reported from iDempiere ERP/SCM to this governmental system with the help of integration solution developed in-house.
In excess of the requirements of FSSC 22000 v5 each individual finished goods packaging is marked with an unique ‘Quality passport code’ in a form of additional unique barcode allowing for later pixel-accurate traceability (a feature proudly maintained by ‘U Palicha’ brand since 2005).
Traceability report maintained in iDempiere ERP/SCM allows for two-way traceability (from individual raw material batch to individual packagings of finished goods and vice versa) for food recall process.
Mobile interface for internal audit efforts beyond the scope of and in support of the FSSC 22000 v5 project is done via Telegram bot and is integrated with iDempiere ERP/SCM with help of Telegram Bot API plugin by Nikita Polkovnikov.
The prospect improvements of this ongoing FSSC 22000 project may include integration of Deepak Pansheriya Document Management solution that once was sponsored by ‘U Palicha’ among others, integration of Diego Ruiz Kanban plugin and other scaling up efforts.