Trust and Transparency of Agriculture
Growers and Producers
✓ Significantly reduce inspection effort and time
✓ Easily track your compliance requirements and actions
✓ Pre-audit multiple compliance regimes at the same time
✓ Collaborate online with inspectors and auditors
✓ Use on mobile devices easily - upload images for evidence
✓ Work online and offline
Food Co-operatives
✓ Streamline pre-audit inspections & significantly save time
✓ Integrate the auditing of multiple compliance regimes and record them all, at the same time
✓ On mobile or laptop, online or offline, remotely or on-site
✓ Produce reports and aggregate data with ease
✓ Analyse and learn from grower insights
Graeme Munro, part of audit leadership at AVOCO food co-operative talks about the main benefits he gets from using QuantumLeap
Keith Phillips, President of QLBS introduces QuantumLeap
News
GLOBALG.A.P. Providing Partner
QLBS was the first GLOBALG.A.P. audit technology approved partner to submit IFA results via the GLOBALG.A.P. API in accordance with the new 2020 audit submission requirements.
GLOBALG.A.P. and QLBS have been working together to bring certification bodies an easy-to-use cloud option for conducting GLOBALG.A.P. audits and uploading data.
Integration of our QuantumLeap platform is complete enabling seamless reporting.
Benefits
A Seamless Flow: Pre-Audit, Audit,
Post-Audit
Detailed Analysis, Aggregated
Reporting and insights
Remote
Audit - for when you can't be there in person
Quick Pre-Assessment and Self-Assessments
Ideal for multiple schemes audits.
Easy to Integrate
Online and Offline
Accessible to anyone, anywhere
Eliminate Duplication and double-handling costs
Real-time collaboration,
in the cloud
Designed for Digital. Any device, anywhere
Case Study: Washington Winegrowers Association
Integrated 2nd and 3rd Party Auditing
The Washington Winegrowers Association developed the Sustainable WA Winegrape Standard following two decades of an educational sustainability program.
The third-party audit and certification process was awarded to EAGLE Certification Group, whose submission included use of a digital assessment platform – QuantumLeap.
The concept of the growers being able to access a mirror digital assessment to do their own internal inspection first - a self-assessments - ahead of the certification audit, was considered a favourable added-value in the submission.
How it works: Self-Assessment
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Washington winegrowers that choose to participate in the certification program first submit their registration online
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Then they undertake their own self-assessment: assessing themselves against the Standard in preparation for the audit
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Winegrowers gather and add required evidence documentation to prepare for a successful, value-added audit.
Having completed the self-assessment, growers are better prepared to understand and ensure their conformance to the Standard. To achieve certification, vineyards must meet minimum mandatory requirements, receive a minimum score per section of the Standard and meet an overall minimum percentage of conformance.
The Auditor's Next Steps
The auditor reviews the self-assessment responses and comments online ahead of the audit time. This assists the auditor with familiarizing themselves with the vineyard’s sustainability program and enables them to provide a special focus on areas in need of improvement.
Vineyards that do not conform to the standard's minimum requirements have the optional opportunity to enhance their overall sustainability system by completing corrective actions - these are reviewed by EAGLE’s technical team.
The Standard enables the Certification Body to deliver a number of advantages:
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There is a continual improvement focus within the audit process.
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Certification managers can view and manage the process of the audits.
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Technical reviewers can access the audit from anywhere, and complete their reviews.
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Communication is improved using automated emails to flag status changes.
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Audit reports and certificates can be automatically generated by the standard owner.
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Impartiality and integrity behind the certification – it’s more than just a piece of paper.
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Vineyards have the opportunity to review their own process as part of the self-assessment and compare those processes with the outside perspective of the auditor.
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Continual improvement and system maturity can be tracked over time.
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QLBS enables BI and AI for future analysis.
Vicky Scharlau, Executive Director of the Washington Winegrowers Association, noted that
"...for growers, the platform was the perfect ‘one-stop shopping’ experience allowing grape growers to apply, assess and then monitor progress in a single location".
More visibility, more insights, more value
The QuantumLeap assessment and reporting platform has been used for second party auditing across many other industries including tourism, supply chains, indigenous business communities and sports clusters. In every case the 'prime' organisation is benefitting from the transparency afforded and the ability to monitor and manage the verification.
Plus, the business community itself is afforded more than a certification, but a system to help them improve their business.
An online, real-time, SAAS, audit reporting platform that offers visibility, consistency, reliability, integrity, control, confidence, rigour and flexibility.
Take a strategic approach to compliance rather than a tactical one.
Use QuantumLeap.
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