1. Supply Chain Security –
From Cradle to Grave
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA

3. Field-to-Fork®
GLOBAL FOOD AND BEVERAGE SUPPLY CHAIN THREAT

4. Your Hamburger
Source: Shawn Kennedy, United States Center
for Food Protection and Defense
Over 1,000,000

5. Global Situation
Meat: 980 Miles
Sugar: 10,000 miles
Coffee: 9,300 miles
Grapes: 2,143 miles
Apples: 1,555 miles
Sources: Iowa State University – Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and CUESA

6. How Far It Goes
Outside USA Domestic - USA
Air 9% 3%
Sea 57% 1%
Rail 8% 13%
Truck 73% 82%
147 112
Source: Truckinginfo.net, US Dot, FDA, USDA

7. Threat Is Real
VNA Photo
Field
Facility
Transit
Customer
AFP Photo / Jiji Press

8. What can we do?
Targets
Regulations
Implementation
Test and Verify

9. Targets
Coating/Mixing/Grinding/Rework
Ingredient Staging/Prep/Addition
Liquid Receiving/Loading
Liquid Storage/Hold/Surge Tanks

10. Regulation(s)
FSMA
GFSI
ISO
HACCP
HARPC
C-TPAT
CFATS
PSM

11. Implementation
Prescriptive
◦ Inspection
◦ Are measures there, applied consistently?
Performance based
◦ Testing
◦ Are measures effective when applied
appropriately?
Overarching Goal
Objective
1
Result
1
Result
2
Objective
2
Result
3
Result
4

12. Test and Validate
Top of class performance
◦ Traditional goal setting
◦ Quality management
◦ Waste reduction
Snapping back
◦ Level of effort to impact
◦ Time and effort to detect
◦ Time and effort to correct
Resilience
Time to respond Restored level
Impact
Significance Duration
Performance
Expectations Outcomes

13. Goal: Resiliency
Aware
◦ The ability to detect, identify, and assess the
environment and its own state
Robust
◦ The ability to withstand events without suffering
impacts
Elasticity
◦ The ability to absorb an impact, adjust to it, and
return to preferred or optimal performance
Aware
ElasticRobust

14. Thank You
THOR THOMSEN, CPP, CHS-V
THROUGHPOINT SOLUTIONS, INC
920.915.2192
THOR@THROUGHPOINT.NET
TIM CLARK, CPP
SUGAR CREEK PACKING
740.604.3134
TCLARK@SUGARCREEK.COM