The food processing industry is witnessing steady growth in India, and so is the demand for consulting services. Post pandemic, food manufacturing companies and government are more aware and stringent while adhering to food processing standards, compliance's, and certifications to ensure utmost safety. These expanding markets are now not only seeking to hire the best talent and workforce but also organized and reliable consultation services for food industries.
These growing food processing giants need consultations to ensure food safety standard implementation, product compliance, product development, process improvements and more. Foodiesys Consulting, a consulting propriety firm started in 2009 by Sumedha Jalgaonkar, has made a name for itself in food consultancy projects, training, and auditing for food safety systems like BRC, USFDA and FSSAI compliance.
Foodiesys Consulting helps food and beverage companies to comply with food safety standards through customized solutions related to system implementation, documentation and system certifications.
Sumedha leads most of the operations at Foodiesys Consulting, however the firm is associated with credible food technologists and
other service providers like project consulting firms to cover the back end activities. Talking about her professional journey, Sumedha – with an M.Tech in food technology – always wanted to break the nine to five monotony and venture out on her own.
After gaining some corporate experience by working with food giants like Mapro, Sumedha planned to start her own consulting firm witnessing the demand and awareness for food safety standards and compliance in the manufacturing industry.
Customization Is Key
With exponential growth of startups and increasing demand of food safety, the food standards across the market have witnessed a major shift. As many of the consulting firms in this field do not focus on understanding the exact needs of the customers with respect to food safety standard however they implement it with a standard formats and methods.
Talking about the current cliental expectation form the industry, Sumedha says, “Customers need the things which are little more customized as per their products and processes. The clients also look for feasible solutions for all the elements related to system implementation, documentation and system certifications. We at Foodiesys Consulting, do a thorough gap analysis right in the starting of the project and understand the expectations of the clients well. According to the output of the gap analysis, entire execution of the project is carried out which is monitored regularly to have effective implementation of project as per timelines”.
Foodiesys Consulting boasts of a team of professional consultants who are dedicated to design the documentation structure, training modules and many as per the clients’ expectations. “Our key competency is our client-centric attitude. All of our services are customized as per the expectations of client, after studying their teams, products, processes and complexity of the processes. We aid all our clients with food safety documentations is such a manner that they become self-dependent overtime and are confident at the time of process implementation and facing the external audits”, speaks Sumedha.
The Road Ahead
The market of the food processing and allied service providing industries promises an exponential growth in near future. Both startups and vintage companies in the food processing segment are seeking services from such consulting firms.
“With new generations taking up the business, with new technology and emerging risk with respect to food safety, the importance of food safety standard is increasing and the market for the consulting services is ever growing. We have few plans related to addition of some new services for food safety standard implementation. These services are related specifically to training and documentation part for food safety standards”, signs off Sumedha.
