1. How Can We
Use Big Data
in the Food
Supply Chain?
Principles for Reducing Risk by
Leveraging Big Data in the Supply Chain
etq.com
2. How Can We Use Big Data in the Food Supply Chain?
etq.com
3. How Can We Use Big Data in the Food Supply Chain?
Using Big Data in the supply chain:
A new perspective on risk
etq.com
4. As a quality management professional,
you know of countless incidents where risk
became screaming-headline reality.
From minor breaches to major disasters.
etq.com
5. But red flag incidents don’t happen in a vacuum.
A huge number have something in common:
Information to prevent
them was already there.
etq.com
6. In India, a poor harvest for a common spice created an
economic incentive to substitute cheaper ingredients…
...including allergy-causing nuts.
etq.com
7. Sales of New Zealand’s manuka
honey in the UK alone...
...exceeded total
production.
etq.com
8. Tainted milk saturated the China market...
...because a quality test relied
on narrow criteria.
etq.com
9. In all these serious incidents,
preventative data was available…
...just not from
usual sources.
etq.com
16. Big Data is about uniting
different datasets…
to see the story
from more than
one perspective.
etq.com
17. If UK supermarkets had looked at peanut
prices alongside cumin, the risk of unsafe
substitution would have been obvious.
(Just 37% of companies
use Big Data in the
supply chain.)
etq.com
18. If honey wholesalers had correlated total
production with total imports, they’d
have seen the numbers failed to add up.
(60% see an increase in
supply chain efficiency
of more than 10% after
adopting Big Data
methods.)
etq.com
19. And if Chinese milk standards were cross-
checked with farm data... An impossibly high
yield of top-grade milk shows the problem.
(41% of companies saw
their reaction times
to supply chain issues
improve.)
etq.com
20. These are all red flags
of quality best practice.
But the data sources you need to see
them may be outside your quality
compliance infrastructure.
etq.com
37. Compliance is a
moving target.
Managing your supply chain in the
cloud lets you stay ahead of the risks.
etq.com
38. Takeaways:
Many supply
chain risks can
be mitigated by
looking at data
more broadly
Moving supply
chain management
into the cloud
lets you combine
different datasets
The biggest risks
are those where
you don’t follow the
contributing factors
Adopting big data
methods gives
you 8 big tools for
managing your
supply chain
etq.com
39. Download your FREE eGuide now
Can leveraging Big Data improve
traceability? Yes it can. Download:
How to Achieve Supply Chain
Traceability in Food and Drink