Our procurement is product-driven. Here we benefit in particular from our new partnership with Fyffes and Gemüsering, both of whom produce their own products. Our quality management system, the "vanWylick Fruit Safety System", is linked to the databases of our partners and producers and can be accessed from either side, thus offering optimum transparency. Managed by an integrated, multifunctional QM team of ecotrophologists, purchasing and sales staff, our QM system deals with the following tasks:
- Continuous and systematic implementation of all customer requirements
- Residue monitoring: centrally controlled, risk oriented and covering all subsidiaries in cooperation with accredited and QA-certified laboratories
- Over 4,000 tests annually: a combination of in-house tests, analyses by our alliance partners, origin analyses and customer and supplier analyses
- Joint QM database shared with our alliance partners Fyffes and Gemüsering
- Supplier monitoring: internal information system for monitoring e.g. deviations, safety measures and even delisting suppliers as well as auditing producers at source
- Exact batch traceability: using a modern, flexible enterprise resource planning tool linked to all subsidiaries online
- Crisis management: routine simulation of traceability of selected items and a clear, transparent and defined procedure in the event of deviations
- Product-related consulting:remaining in contact with specialists, e.g. BayerCropScience, Nunhems, and independent quality advisors, with a view to the latest developments
- IFS International Food Standard) and organic certification of all corporate sectors; our eco-control body: DE-Öko-001
- Member of the German Fruit Trade Association DFHV and 4fresh partner (www.dfhv.de)
- Member of Globalgap (www.globalgap.org)