Being asked for GFSI by a retailer? Start here.

Woolworths, Pick n Pay, Shoprite and SPAR require GFSI-benchmarked food safety from own-brand suppliers. The Global Markets programme is the recognised stepping stone, and this plan is it, digitised.

The escalation, explained

Entry covers the Global Markets basic requirements: hygiene, HACCP foundations, traceability basics, and the records your customer's auditor samples first. Intermediate adds the full HACCP plan to SANS 10330, supplier approvals, document control and internal checks. When your customer asks for full certification, you move on to FSSC 22000 certification and your records move with you.

Quality controller completing a digital checklist on a rugged tablet beside a dairy bottling line — Line checks captured at the line, not transcribed at a desk afterwards.

Why plants pick this over a checklist app

A checklist app logs your fridge temperatures. A supplier programme audit asks for your hazard analysis, your supplier approvals, your corrective action verification and your training effectiveness. Those are programme requirements, and they are pre-loaded here, with an ASC consultant configuring them around your site in five working days.