How to control quality in the internationalization of a product

Internationalizing a food product and ensuring maximum quality at competitive prices is an ambitious goal for any food company, but it is not always easy.

SMEs often do not have the resources or the technology to achieve these goals.

Thanks to the democratization of technology and solutions from companies like Blendhub and Chemometric Brain, it is now possible.

Indespan wanted to take its protein bread recipes to more countries, and thanks to Blendhub's platform, it could enter the Mexican market.

To do this, Indespan needed local ingredients and had to guarantee the same quality anywhere.

But Indespan faced the challenge of controlling its different suppliers in different parts of the world. A complicated task for an SME, until now.

To approve suppliers quickly and easily, control raw materials in other countries and ensurethe same quality and homogeneity in all markets, Indespan implemented Chemometric Brain.

With ourunique software based on near infrared spectroscopy (NIR), we developed qualitative models of their existing raw materials.

In this way, raw materials purchased in other countries are analyzed with NIR and compared with validated samples from the company’s existing suppliers.

This fast, simple procedure, without the need for large investments, allows control of raw materials from anywhere in the world, which would otherwise be difficult to analyze due to the impossibility of auditing all these suppliers.

It is the ideal solution for companies such as Indespan to perform more efficient quality control and approval of new suppliers. It is also very convenient for companies that market their products in multiple locations, with their own production orthrough a platform such as Blendhub, and for those that buy raw materials from distant suppliers that are attractive for price or availability.

More over, working in the cloud, Chemometric Brain is compatible with any NIR instrument, allowing the use of the right equipment for each application or the integration of several networked devices, for a global and replicable quality control.

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