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Veteran product marketing and development professional with over twenty years in the technology and consulting industries, with a focus on the food and beverage, restaurant, and retail verticals. Worked with some of the largest and most dynamic brands in the industry. Passionate about the power of technology in helping businesses achieve the resiliency in today’s marketplace.
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At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Paul Bradley of TraceGains to talk about the power of Data in the food manufacturing sector, especially as it relates to communicating, coordinating, and collaborating with partners up and down the value chain to reduce risk, improve compliance, keep people safe, improve the customer experience, control cost, and optimize performance. There is a great groundswell of enthusiasm for emerging tools and technologies, of course, but we are also now seeing real-world applications where gathering, sharing, and acting on the right data at the right time is making an enormous impact, and more and better is on the way. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!
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Quality and Safety teams often struggle to secure budget priority despite their essential roles. Learn how to shift that narrative with actionable strategies and data-driven insights
This session will explore how building a strong, data-driven continuous improvement program can not only reduce risk and improve safety but can also help teams paint a clearer picture of the value they create for their brand
Gain insights on how to put continuous improvement data to work for your organization
In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Food Safety & Quality series we spoke with Paul Bradley of TraceGains about how FSQ professionals document, demonstrate, and communicate the value of their work through data, and how a new generation of data collection and analytics tools are allowing them to share and showcase their contributions to the company in new and exciting ways. In a world where giving food safety and quality data a storyteller’s voice to convey both quantitative and qualitative metrics is the best way to win hearts and minds. In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about what’s new, what’s working, and what is coming next. Give it a listen!
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Sara Jane has led R&D, quality, and regulatory teams throughout the NPD lifecycle from innovation to commercialization. She has over 10 years of experience in the natural foods industry and an educational background in Nutrition Science and International Food Law and Regulations. Her professional designations include Lead Instructor for the FSPCA Preventive Controls Qualified Individuals (PCQI), BRCGS Professional, and Certified Food Safety and Quality Auditor (CFSQA) through the American Society for Quality (ASQ). She works as a Networked Ingredients Functional Consultant for TraceGains guiding our Strategic Accounts through continuous improvement projects and streamlining their quality and R&D initiatives.
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At North American Food Safety & Quality 2023 we sat down with Sara Jane Bellocchi of TraceGains to talk about how the next generation of Artificial Intelligence and Automation technologies are opening up new capabilities for Food Safety & Quality professionals. What may surprise some people is that predictive and proactive tools and tactics are already well-established, tried, tested, and true in the Food Safety and Food Quality space, and so the community of leaders working in this space are actually ahead of the curve when it comes to knowing what they want to do and how they will incorporate the latest advances in this space into their existing processes. At the same time, a growing need to address supplier and product compliance is ideally placed to be a major focus for investment and advancement into greater performance without necessarily increasing headcount or time allotments to achieve the additional work. For every FSQ professional looking for ideas of how to apply these powerful new tools to their organization’s current challenges and opportunities. Give it a listen!
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Today’s challenges can no longer be managed by a linear supply chain model. Meeting customer expectations for customized, sustainable products and fast deliveries in the midst of major disruption demands a different approach. Mastering ingredient data is key to managing the evolving supply chain Networked ingredients make that data visible, actionable, and shareable as your partnerships become more complex Leverage the shared language of networked ingredient data to take time and complexity out of your co-manufacturing relationships — Gary Iles SVP of Marketing and Business Development TraceGains Gary Iles is a technology leader and pioneer who has spent his…
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At North American Food Safety & Quality 2019 last June in Chicago we spoke with Gary Nowacki of TraceGains about C to C, his podcast talking about food from Conception to Consumption. Other content from Gary on epthoughtleaders.com include an in-depth interview here, and a workshop presentation here. — TraceGains is a rapidly growing software company, delivering a sophisticated suite of products for food, beverage, and CPG companies. TraceGains solutions empower our customers to satisfy compliance with regulations and industry standards such as FSMA, GFSI, and HACCP/HARPC, without the need for additional staff. At the heart of TraceGains is a…
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At North American Food Safety & Quality 2019 last month in Chicago we spoke with Gary Nowacki of TraceGains about how data management and the sharing of information throughout a supply chain are ever-present challenges for Food and Beverage companies. TraceGains works to connect business partners seamlessly and easily to facilitate communication and collaboration. To hear more on this topic, here is a link to Gary’s workshop from NAFS19 that we shared earlier. — TraceGains is a rapidly growing software company, delivering a sophisticated suite of products for food, beverage, and CPG companies. TraceGains solutions empower our customers to satisfy…
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Technology transforms the way companies operate their business and accelerates development that creates massive efficiency gains. Hear how leading companies are using emerging technologies in radical ways. Learn how to update your quality management processes in ways that are economical and scalable Gain insight on how to harmonize extreme growth, acquisitions, and SAP Hear how to accelerate and harmonize PLM, Nutritional Labeling, and Supplier Data Explore how to accelerate complaint resolution and reduce overall complaint numbers Gary Nowacki CEO TraceGains — In 2008 Gary co-founded TraceGains and has been CEO since then. Gary has 30 years’ experience designing software and…
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