Quality Management Software in the Food Industry

Abstract

In the food industry, quality management has become crucial to companies responsible for ensuring that the safety of products complies with the strict government regulations and/or copes with the increasing customer demand for new products and shorter product development cycles, whilst simultaneously having to protect their brands from food scandals or other adverse situations. In this paper we categorize what food manufacturers find when investigating the market for quality management software in order to identify room for new applications and products.