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From the pandemic to the microchip shortage, recent events have challenged long-established ‘just-in-time’ approaches and prompted businesses to rethink and transform their global supply chain models.

As businesses reach new levels of digitisation, enabled by faster connectivity, the use of data offers a significant opportunity to better monitor, analyse, predict, and mitigate risk.

Building trust in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices is complicated by the pace of change in reporting requirements, with huge regional and corporate variations.

It’s fair to say that I’ve missed the conference circuit: the opportunity to meet new people, make new connections and – most of all – explore new ideas.

Since its inception in 1996, BRCGS has been at the forefront of food safety, as the organisation responsible for driving food safety standards across the entire food supply chain, from responsible sourcing to packaging materials and distribution.

Food safety is complicated. To make it effective, requires reliable performance indicators, which are classified in two ways — as leading or lagging. Tim Ahn shares how food safety cannot be effective without reliable performance indicators.

The consequences of getting food safety wrong are at best unpleasant and at worst fatal. It’s no surprise that as consumers we expect manufacturers and retailers to demonstrate a complete, unconditional commitment to food safety in all that they do.

Over the last two years, the global food supply chain has undergone an unprecedented level of change and uncertainty.

Having dominated the headlines for weeks, COP26 has come to an end in Glasgow.

In 2020, LRQA customers were forced to adopt digital assurance. For many, it was a new and uncertain world.