3071 Control and monitor safe supply of raw materials and ingredients in food and drink operations

SCQF Level 6       Credit value 6

 

Unit Summary

This unit is about ensuring that sources and supplies of food and drink products are safe. It involves controlling and monitoring the supply of raw materials and ingredients. It covers the inspection and checking that food items meet standard operating requirements and specifications on delivery and prior to use during manufacture.

You will need to be able to check food items on arrival and ensure that it conforms to product specifications.

This unit is for you if you work in food and drink operations or animal feed operations and your job requires you to have responsibilities for procurement, supplies or stores. You may have supervisory responsibilities as a line manager or team leader.

 

In order to be assessed as competent you must demonstrate to your assessor that you can consistently perform to the requirements set out below.  Your performance evidence must include at least one observation by your assessor. 

 

You must be able to:

You need to show:

Evidence must be work-based, simulation alone is only allowed where shown in bold italics

1.            Inspect raw materials and ingredients prior to acceptance

 

This means you:

Check that the supplies conform to organisation’s specifications

Undertake all checks relating to packaging design and materials

Accept only those supplies which meet the specified criteria

Report and take action in response to deficiencies or discrepancies being identified

Evidence of inspecting raw materials and ingredients prior to acceptance as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.

 

2.            Keep accurate records

 

This means you:

Check that all relevant documentation is complete and accurate

challenge discrepancies in information provided on delivery of raw materials and supplies

Record all information in line with supplier auditing requirements

 

Evidence of keeping accurate records as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.

 

3.            Contribute to improving the supply

 

This means you:

Identify where regular inconsistencies in supplies occur

Identify the specific criteria for which raw materials and supplies regularly fail to achieve

Make recommendations to colleagues and technical staff where failure against specifications suggests that a new source of supply is needed

Make recommendations to colleagues and technical staff regarding the suitability of the criteria used as a measure of acceptance

Evidence of agreeing a timescale for action as part of your role in accordance with workplace procedures and within the limits of your own responsibilities.

 

 

 

You need to know and understand:

Evidence of knowledge and understanding should be collected during observation of performance in the workplace. Where it cannot be collected by observing performance, other assessment methods should be used.

  1. The policies, guidelines and legislation relating to sources and supply of raw materials, relevant to the workplace and products
  2. Your organisation's supplier assurance guidelines, policies, audit requirements, and how they are applied
  3. The types and sources of raw materials and ingredients
  4. The agreed criteria for acceptance and non-acceptance of supplies required for products
  5. The critical control points for transport, receipt and acceptance of supplies
  6. The control and sampling methods appropriate to type and source of supply
  7. How control and sampling methods used by the business should be applied
  8. The potential methods, sources and types of product contamination that can be encountered during product transportation and delivery
  9. How contamination during transportation and delivery can be identified
  10. the range of checks that can be applied to ensure that food delivered is safe
  11. The recording systems that are in place record data related to accepted and declined food deliveries
  12. The impact that external audit requirements have upon the acceptance and decline of food deliveries
  13. The range of data that is used to support external audits
  14. The requirements for certificates of conformity
  15. The requirements for traceability purposes
  16. The corrective actions to be taken when an item is received that does not conform with product specifications

 

Evidence of performance may employ examples of the following assessment:

  • observation
  • written and oral questioning;
  • evidence from company systems (e.g. Food Safety Management System)
  • reviewing the outcomes of work
  • checking any records of documents completed
  • checking accounts of work that the candidate or others have written