Vendor Certification Programs (VCPs)

Business trends in the food industry - expansion, acquisitions, outsourcing, use of co-manufacturers, costs-reductions - affect how food safety is managed throughout your supply chain. These decisions impact your profits and looses, which can include loss due to quality variations, shortened shelf-life, or in worst case, recalls.

Efficient Food Safety Management, like Just In Time and Efficient Consumer Response, is essential to protecting and improving your competitive position. Silliker can help you develop, implement and manage a comprehensive Vendor Certification Program that will improve efficiency, consistency and profitability. We will work with you to audit your entire supply chain for safety and quality, then create an ongoing program to systematically track performance and verify compliance to your specifications.

We can help you determine the ability of your suppliers to meet your ongoing product specifications requirements. As part of this service, our consultants can help you prepare and design specific monitoring programs for your suppliers.

Contact us to learn more about our capabilities to assist you.

Through our education and training programs, we can help you improve risk management programs by identifying areas of opportunity and then working with you on designing and providing the right training programs. From customized courses to training DVDs to online solutions, we have a cost-friendly program that is right for you.