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SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions have revolutionized the way businesses manage their operations. However, a significant challenge persists: security.
In a world where the confidentiality and integrity of Quality Control data are paramount, it’s legitimate to question the true security of SaaS solutions.

Accelerated by the COVID years, but in progress for a long time, the digitalization of companies concerns all sectors of activity. Driven by public authorities, more and more companies are launching ERP* projects. The principle is logical, even obvious, to centralize all the information of a company.

Unfortunately, it often happens that the results are not up to expectations… and investments…
*ERP: Entreprise Ressource Planning

The art of enhancing products! Beautiful watches are stored in elegant boxes, cosmetics come in attractive packaging, and quality products are delivered with the appropriate quality documents.

In the agri-food industry, quality management is a key factor in ensuring food safety and consumer satisfaction.
Quality managers often rely on tools such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and Excel to manage their processes.

However, it is becoming increasingly clear that these solutions are limited and do not meet the sector’s growing needs.

Would CIKLab be profitable for my company?

What is the return on investment?

Many food companies manage their quality control with Excel files and edit their analysis certificates on Word documents.

If at the beginning, the system D meets the needs of first necessity, it quickly shows its limits. In the long run, a solution that is supposed to be economical becomes a source of time loss and a significant loss of profit.

Using a real computer tool dedicated to quality control management can save you 30 hours per month and be extremely profitable.

« Au premier temps de la valse, … » (“At the first beat of the waltz…”) sang Jacques Brel. Management of control plans and quality analyses is also a waltz in three beats that turns and accelerates.

What are the challenges for food supplement brands when implementing a quality control system? When does Excel no longer suffice?

The acquisition and choice of a LIMS regularly haunts discussions and is periodically debated when working in a laboratory, but does the question also
arise when one has to manage the quality control of products without an internal laboratory? This paradox actually hides two issues :

Operational management of quality control.
Access to a digitalized laboratory to manage analytical subcontracting.

We were recently in contact with a company that works in the field of health ingredients.

This structure of about ten people, certified FSSC 22000, offers about a hundred references, mainly in trade. It has a small in-house manufacturing
activity and entrusts some of its products to processors under its own brand. In the absence of an in-house control laboratory, analyses are entrusted to
subcontracted laboratories.

The Quality manager is responsible for quality control and relations with these labs.