Annual Report 2010 - Baltika Breweries

Key Projects
Quality Management System
Baltika cares about its consumers and pays significant
attention to product quality and safety.
During the 1990s, Baltika was one of the first
Russian companies to obtain the ISO 9001 Certificate
of Quality.
The Company implemented and maintains the operation
of its Quality Management System (QMS), which enables
the standardization, unification and regulation of key
processes. QMS is a flexible system that ensures the
efficient operation of facilities. The system is being
continuously improved, taking into account Russian and
foreign requirements, as well as changes in business
processes.
In 2009, the Company developed and implemented a Food
Products Safety Management System (FPSMS) at its
St. Petersburg facility. FPSMS development involved
describing the product (beer) production process, the
training of involved employees and performing internal
audits. By the end of the year, the FPSMS at the
St. Petersburg facility was certified as complying with the
ISO 22000:2005 international standard (GOST P ISO
22000-2007), based on НАССР (Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Points) principles. The inspection audit
was performed by the certifying authority in 2010.
Currently, the Food Products Safety Management System
is being implemented at other corporate production
facilities.
International standards certification is voluntary. It
confirms that the Company’s operations are based on best
international practices used to maintain and upgrade the
quality and safety of products and business processes.
The Company wrapped up implementing the Laboratory
Information Management System (LIMS) in all corporate
branches in 2010. LIMS replaced the previous information
management system, ensuring greater functionality and
flexibility. The new system is just a stage in implementing
a new automated lot accounting system (an accounting
method according to which each lot of goods documented
by one and the same document is stored in individual
packages). The main LIMS functions are to process
and store test result data and to communicate the
data to involved departments. LIMS ensures the quick entry,
analysis, storage and management of laboratory data,
enabling personnel to check test results for compliance with
corresponding regulatory documents and specifications
and to monitor test results in real time throughout the
entire production process, from raw material entry to the
production of finished goods. In addition, the system can be
integrated with other automated systems to facilitate the
solution of tasks for the facility as a whole.
Additional enhancement of LIMS functions and features,
including integration with the Company’s data systems,
is planned for 2011.
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