IFS Broker certification

IFS Broker represents the compliance standard for broker, trade, and import services of food products, household and personal care items, packaging materials, and products intended for large-scale retail (GDO).

This standard is crucial to ensure that brokers and importers operate as an efficient link between producers and retailers, ensuring that the products meet stringent quality and safety criteria. Today, procurement operations take place on a global scale, and brokers and importers are fundamental actors in maintaining the integrity and transparency of the supply chain.

The main objective of the IFS Broker standard is to accurately verify the supplier selection processes by brokers, ensuring that adequate quality requirements are implemented and that every phase of the process is traceable and verifiable. This not only helps to elevate industry standards, but also offers a greater level of trust to all parties involved, from producers to final consumers.

Main advantages

- Potential increase in sales: IFS certification can help improve sales, offering a competitive advantage in the market;
- Process optimisation: it optimises business processes and improves the management of documentation related to product safety;
- Continuous improvement: it promotes continuous improvement, thanks to detailed scores and reports suggesting areas for development and refinement;
- Customized solutions: it offers customized solutions for risk control, adapting to the specific needs of the company;
- Flexible audits: it allows for the choice between on-site or remote audits if the company meets certain requirements;
- Integration with other certifications: it allows integration with other IFS certifications, reducing time and costs of multiple inspections.

Certification process

- Information questionnaire;
- Technical/economic offer which, once accepted, constitutes the service provision contract;
- Audit at the company and related report;
- Uploading of the report on the IFS portal, ensuring maximum visibility of the result obtained;
- Annual renewal audit of the certificate.

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