Veeva and FSSC Partner to Simplify Audit Certification for Food & Beverage Supply Chains
By Geert van Kempen, Head of F&B Strategy, Veeva Consumer Products, and Guido Dinjens, CMO, FSSC
The food and beverage industry is more dynamic and demanding than ever. Between evolving regulatory requirements and a growing focus on sustainability, businesses need efficient systems to ensure food safety, maintain compliance, and build consumer trust. That’s where the new partnership between Veeva Consumer Products and FSSC comes into play.
Together, Veeva and FSSC are poised to modernize how audit certificates are managed across global food supply chains by providing a seamless integration of their digital platforms.
This collaboration not only ensures that food manufacturers and suppliers can simplify certification management but also enhances transparency and trust across the industry. Here’s how this partnership will make a difference for industry professionals worldwide.
Streamlining Audit Certification with Real-Time Data
Audit certificates, particularly third-party certifications like those provided by FSSC, form the backbone of trust in food and beverage supply chains. However, managing these certificates has often been a labor-intensive and fragmented process. Supply chain professionals spend countless hours tracking, validating, and registering certificates to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Each year, over 100,000 certificates are issued within the F&B industry, with 36,000+ coming from FSSC alone. These certificates require constant management, renewal, and validation—a process that can quickly become overwhelming, especially as businesses scale globally. The need to authenticate documents and track certification data accurately across vast supply chains only adds to this burden.
Enter the partnership between Veeva and FSSC
By integrating the FSSC Digital Platform directly with Veeva’s QualityOne solution, users can now access real-time certificate status information directly from the FSSC database. This eliminates the need for manual processes and offers up-to-date, verified audit certificate information at their fingertips.
“Through this partnership, we aim to inspire our customers by showing how modern digital technologies can simplify the management of supplier audit certificates with a direct connection to the trusted FSSC source data,” said Geert van Kempen, Head of Food & Beverage Strategy at Veeva. “We are honored to partner with FSSC, as we share a similar vision for leveraging digital solutions to drive quality and safety.”
Guido Dinjens, Chief Market Officer at FSSC, underscores the importance of this collaboration:
“Providing trust to the food supply chain through the FSSC 22000 risk-based systems approach demonstrates commitment to food safety and contributes to efficient supply chains. Our partnership with Veeva will ensure that real-time certification information is readily available, simplifying supply chain management and enhancing overall food safety.”Guido Dinjens, Chief Market Officer at FSSC
Benefits for FSSC Users and Veeva Customers
This partnership brings tangible benefits to both Veeva customers and FSSC users. For FSSC’s certified organizations, this integration provides greater connectivity with manufacturers and industry partners. These organizations can share and manage their audit certificates more easily, allowing them to demonstrate compliance efficiently and effectively.
Veeva’s customers will now have the ability to streamline audit certification management. QualityOne will pull audit information directly from the FSSC platform, ensuring that data is accurate and up-to-date. This means less time spent verifying certificates and more time dedicated to higher-value activities, like ensuring product quality and maintaining regulatory compliance.
With this partnership, businesses across the food and beverage industry will experience:
- Simplified certificate management: Integration with the FSSC Digital Platform will allow for easy verification of certification statuses, reducing manual input and the risk of errors.
- Real-time data access: Veeva customers will benefit from having up-to-date certification data available directly within QualityOne, making audit preparation and compliance reporting much smoother.
- Enhanced transparency: The direct connection between FSSC and Veeva’s applications strengthens transparency across supply chains, building greater trust between suppliers and manufacturers.
Driving Industry Innovation Together
At the heart of this partnership is a shared commitment to driving industry-wide improvements through digital innovation. Both Veeva and FSSC recognize the growing complexities of global supply chains and the critical role technology can play in enhancing safety and compliance.
Veeva’s cloud-based QualityOne solution is already trusted by leading companies across the food and beverage industry to manage food safety, quality, and health and safety processes. By integrating FSSC’s robust certification data, QualityOne users will be able to automate and streamline their supplier audit processes, further driving efficiency and transparency.
Join Us on the Journey Toward Simplified Compliance
Leading food and beverage companies are already leveraging digital solutions like Veeva’s QualityOne to enhance their compliance processes and build safer, more sustainable supply chains. With this new integration, Veeva and FSSC are helping the industry take the next step toward smarter, more efficient audit certification management.
Are you ready to simplify your audit certification processes? Learn more about how Veeva and FSSC can help you stay compliant, reduce manual processes, and focus on what really matters—delivering safe, high-quality products to market faster.
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