Muddy Boots showcases its integration with GLOBALG.A.P.
Greenlight Supplier Approval from Muddy Boots is a secure, online system for managing and maintaining all information relating to the approval status of suppliers and supply chains. It gives businesses total confidence that every product from every consignment comes from a validated source that meets the customers’ protocol. With all supplier information held in one centralised and secure location, Muddy Boots’ customers have instant access, and complete visibility of the approval status of both products and suppliers.
The integration with GLOBALG.A.P. makes this process even easier. Now, Greenlight Supplier Approval can sync certificate and grower information from the GLOBALG.A.P. database, driven by a unique number. This saves significant time by reducing the need to manually upload and monitor GLOBALG.A.P. certificates.
Ben Horsbrugh, Director of Quality Management for the UNIVEG Group, explains why this integration has been such a benefit for their business;
“Connecting and tracking this traceability data is an extremely challenging process, which is almost impossible without the use of specialised IT systems. “The Greenlight Supplier Approval tool from Muddy Boots is one of the key programmes we use to gather, monitor and manage the due diligence data and documentation from our global supply base. We’re not just talking about GLOBALG.A.P. certificates; we’re talking about quality agreements, traceability data, pesticide lists, residue reports and a wide range of other information which we need on a daily basis in order to comply with our customer requirements.
“One of the great things about the cooperation between Muddy Boots, GLOBALG.A.P. and UNIVEG is that the integration of these systems has resulted in massive time savings for our business.
“The GLOBALG.A.P. database and Muddy Boots database communicate with each other and ensure that all GLOBALG.A.P. data is up-to-date. This has a huge advantage for our business; we used to be uploading JPEGs and PDFs of all the GLOBALG.A.P. certificates we were receiving. Now, all we need to do in Greenlight Supplier Approval is enter the GLOBALG.A.P. number and everything else is completed automatically by the system. This means we don’t have to worry about files being out-of-date or certificates being invalid, because the system informs us when this is happening.
“For this reason we are pleased to be working with Muddy Boots, with GLOBALG.A.P. and with all our suppliers around the world to improve the whole process of making supply chains more transparent and providing our customers with safe, reliable and high quality food.”
Inas Nureldin, Executive Director of Muddy Boots, explains how data is becoming increasingly important as the industry develops;
“Technology, and its use in the food industry is advancing at a rapid rate; the result is a fantastic wealth of data being generated; data which, if harnessed effectively, will prove incredibly powerful to businesses. Access to data is critical and companies are having to find ways of integrating multiple sources, often from third parties; this brings with it the challenge of duplicity. By easing the way data can be shared between different sources and stakeholders, data duplication and the costs associated with it will decrease.
“Our partnership with GLOBALG.A.P. has resulted in a huge reduction in data input time, as well as the duplication of data in both systems. Schemes and partnerships like this will play a key role in helping to maintain food safety by gathering data on production performance and responsible practices. So, we are already seeing that data can be very powerful, providing it is handled and maintained correctly and efficiently.”
Learn more about Greenlight Supplier Approval and Muddy Boots’ other supply chain solutions on stand B-12, Hall 8.2 at Fruit Logistica.
For more information:
Ralph Dickinson
Muddy Boots Software
Tel: +44 (0) 1989 552074
Email: ralph.dickinson@muddyboots.com