What is a food and beverage quality management system (QMS)?

A food and beverage QMS is a comprehensive platform that manages and ensures product quality across the supply chain. It focuses on consumer health by preventing food contamination during storage, processing, and handling, with sector-specific practices depending on where production occurs.

What quality regulations does the food and beverage industry need to follow?

Key regulations include the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), and Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards under the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). Regulations vary by country and market sector.

How does quality management software (eQMS) help the food and beverage industry?

QMS software centralizes and automates quality management tasks, improving regulatory compliance. It offers features such as automated document control, employee training management, and supplier oversight to increase efficiency and traceability.

Why choose QT9 QMS to address your quality management needs?

QT9 QMS includes over 25 standard modules like Document Control, Inspections, and Risk Management. It is cloud-based, scalable, integrates with ERP and BI tools, and includes full support and software updates to help food and beverage companies ensure compliance and streamline quality operations.

QMS for Food Industry | SQF, HACCP & ISO

HACCP Compliance Tools

Audit Management Tools

Supplier Quality Tracking

Training Documentation

Safety

Mitigate recall risks and promote consistent quality.

Supplier Quality

Manage supplier and ingredient risks and ensure traceability.

Regulatory Demands

Stay on top of standards and documentation demands.

HACCP Management

Digitize and maintain hazard analysis and preventive controls with structured workflows.

Supplier Quality

Rate and track supplier performance with linked COAs, audits and nonconformance data.

Complaint Handling

Log, investigate and close complaints faster with built-in escalation.

Employee Training

Deliver and document recurring food safety, GMP and hygiene training with real-time visibility.

Audit Management

Manage audits across locations or teams with checklists, findings, corrective actions and follow-ups.

Safety Management

Assign, track and verify completion of safety tasks, such as Prerequisite Program tracking.

Document Control

Ensure access to current procedures and control document revisions with electronic approvals.

Calibrations & Maintenance

Track equipment status and maintenance history to meet food safety and production goals.

Traceability

Maintain full visibility from raw materials to finished goods to enable fast recalls and root cause investigations.

Achieve & Maintain SQF Certification with Integrated QMS

Map QMS workflows to SQF modules
Automate SQF audit checklists & gaps
Link CAPA and nonconformance to SQF items
Centralize records for audit readiness

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Implement HACCP and Preventive Controls with Confidence

Digitize hazard analysis & control plans
Route critical control verifications
Trigger alerts for deviations & limits
Archive verified HACCP records

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Control Allergens & Prevent Cross-Contact in Production

Restrict process lines dynamically
Audit-cleaning and sanitize records
Link allergen events to CAPA
Tag allergenic ingredients by batch (QT9 ERP integration)

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Trace Every Batch From Ingredient to Customer Shipping

Link raw materials to finished lots (QT9 ERP integration)
View full genealogy per batch (QT9 ERP integration)
Generate recall or hold lists quickly
Expedite root cause investigations

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Monitor Supplier Performance & Ingredient Safety

Evaluate suppliers using scores
Link audits and deviations
Automate supplier corrective actions
Assess supplier risk by ingredient

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Track Facility Conditions to Support Food Safety Goals

Log temperature, humidity & microbes
Alert on environmental drift or failures
Audit facility checks & cleaning events
Correlate environment to product quality

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SQF

Safe Quality Food Program

HACCP

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points

FAQ: Food & beverage QMS

A food and beverage quality management system is a comprehensive platform that streamlines business processes and is focused on ensuring product/service quality that meets or exceeds customer requirements. Because there are many sectors of the food and beverage industry – from the farm to the retailer – quality management looks different depending on the sector where a business produces.

Overall, food and beverage quality focuses on protecting consumer health by avoiding food contamination. This could take many forms, such as proper storage after harvesting, maintaining specific conditions during processing or safe handling at the point of sale.

Several regulations govern the food production and supply chain, and many differ from country to country. In the United States, most common regulations are put forth in the Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which focuses on preventing foodborne illness in human and animal foods. Though not a law, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) is a system that addresses food safety through the analysis and control of biological, chemical and physical hazards. It is often used to meet regulatory requirements and is mandatory for the control of certain food products in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards address food safety from every aspect, including agriculture and delivery. The requirements are used as part of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification program required by many retailers and food manufacturers in order for them to purchase your product.

Please note that this is a general overview for informational purposes only. For more detailed information about food quality regulations, contact the proper authorities in your market.

Quality management software streamlines and centralizes quality management tasks, enabling food and beverage businesses to more easily comply with food-related regulations. QMS software provides efficiencies that help your business work smarter, such as automated document management with built-in traceability, integrated employee training, and supplier management features.

QT9 QMS is a highly rated quality management solution geared toward compliance and efficiency. We provide more than 25 modules that come standard, including:

Document Control
Audit Management
Nonconforming Products
Corrective Actions
Employee Training
Risk Management
Inspections

QT9 QMS is backed by free software updates, full customer support, an available ERP integration with electronic batch records and a Business Intelligence tool. Our cloud-based platform allows you to keep track of quality from an easy-to-use dashboard, and to synchronize records and tasks across departments and locations.

With QT9 QMS, you get unlimited scalability and traceability at a great price, so you can bring quality products and services to market in the most efficient way.

Modules for any business size

With multiple modules to choose from, there's solutions for nearly anyone.

A solution that scales with you

Whether you are a large corporation or a small start-up you can use as many modules as you want.

Cross-Platform Support

Whether you use Android, iOS or Windows, QT9 works from virtually any web browser.

"Highly customizable and efficient eQMS"
QT9 is a very solid and dense software that can be tailored to the needs of any business. User access and admin controls are very deep and easy to use. The module and workflows are plentiful, and while they can be intimidating to implement, once you dig in a really understand what the software features can do, the reward is high as the software is able to create and track so much.

Dexter S.

Food Production Industry
Capterra - Mid-Market (201-500 emp)

"Great software for the price"
QT9 covers all your need for GFSI audits. Very nice connection between the documents database, training and maintenance functions. Great price structure where you pay by number of simultaneous access. Nice to manage multi-sites of small sizes.

Eva G.

Food and Beverage Industry
Capterra - Mid-Market (51-200 emp)

"Complete & Easy to Use QMS System"
I have been involved in choosing, implementing and using other Quality Management Systems and this has been by far the best experience. This system has made documentation management of training records to rev controlled SOP's a breeze. The Supplier portal is a great feature. They provide solid training and are very responsive when you have questions.

Mary B

Food Production Industry
Capterra - Small-Business (11-50 emp.)

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