A Recap from RizePoint Engage Conference

Dealing with regulations isn’t the easiest task in life. Sure, regulations are a common part of our everyday lives in the foodservice, hospitality, and retail worlds, but facing new regulations can feel a bit like facing an opponent. It’s just business and we know regulations are designed to protect us all.  But, let’s be honest when we have the responsibility to master the regulations facing our organizations, we want to beat those regulations. We want to win when facing the daunting tasks these regulations require of us.

In this blog post, we are going to look at some of the challenges often faced when addressing common regulatory requirements and for each, we’ll dive into different advantages you already have in place by choosing RizePoint.

Let’s look at the first challenge we face, an opponent if you will, when addressing regulations:

Process Implementation — “The Execution Nightmare”

Whether you’re researching the new processes restaurants have put in place after they’ve had issues, or you’re looking into the preventative control requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA, this BEAST of an opponent can make implementing new processes feel quite daunting at first, but you have a strong RizePoint tool in your corner.

RizePoint not only offers a dedicated Program Compliance product module that can help you ensure new processes are correctly implemented at every level of your organization, we also have subject matter experts that help you break down and get through all of the “legalese” you face when studying regulations. Plus, we’ll help you make small tweaks to your processes in order to meet regulatory requirements and never cause you to enact major changes that disrupt operations.

The second opponent often faced when dealing with regulations is:

Easily Obtainable Data — “The Accessibility Devil”

RizePoint knows the importance of ensuring people can access the data they need immediately. No matter what. This MONSTER opponent can be found in various regulations such as FSMA regulations related to the availability of records.

If you haven’t thought about it before, you might be surprised how many ways RizePoint makes your data easily accessible to you. Because users access audit results and other data from the web-based RizePoint Management Console, the data they need is always available, from anywhere. Plus, users can take advantage of file storage options at the location level so items like Health Department scores, HAACP plans, and other critical information can also be easily accessed through the RizePoint Management Console. And, finally, with RizePoint’s new active home page and robust management dashboards, the most critical details are right at the forefront of your system so you never miss anything important.  There are a lot of reasons to feel confident going up against this opponent using RizePoint.

Our next regulatory opponent is:

Protected, Secured Data — “The Record Bomber”

If you’re going to have easily accessible data, that data must be secure and protected. Again, you won’t believe how many ways RizePoint protects your data from this PRETTY TOUGH opponent while still making it easily accessible. All data is stored on RizePoint owned and managed hardware. Plus, single sign on, permissions and roll-based access ensure the data is always secure and never accessed by those who should not have access to it.

Our fourth opponent may very well be our toughest:

Ongoing Validation of Quality — “Merciless Mediocrity”

This is an opponent that we are all familiar with and it can be a fierce one. But, driving and validating quality is what brings us all together under the umbrella of enterprise compliance. You needn’t look any further than the monitoring requirements of FSMA to see this opponent in action. And, we see FSMA hitting all aspects of our client base of hospitality and, of course, food service; even transportation. Frankly, auditing and surveying in order to validate quality are at the core of everything we do at RizePoint. The reason why we are all here at RizePoint is to drive and validate quality. RizePoint is dedicated to being your partner for life in this area. After all, the RizePoint mission is:

To foster brand protection and loyalty, ever-improving quality, and ultimately greater revenues and profitability for our customers.

We bring the tools, technology, and expertise to always beat the merciless mediocrity opponent – to proactively safeguard your compliance standards – for both internally-imposed standards and, of course, externally-imposed regulations.

We’re not only focused together on validating quality but we are also in it together in the area of driving continuous improvements…which is our final item today.

Continuous Improvements — “The Deteriorator”

This KILLAH opponent is what is required to ensure a positive customer experience every time.  It’s not just good enough to maintain the standards we have in place today but it’s in the act of looking forward to next level standards and driving continuous improvements that can really raise the bar. Whether you are looking at the corrective action requirements of FSMA, or just taking in all the headlines of when this opponent has gotten the better of others, it is clear that driving continuous improvements is critical.

RizePoint offers corrective action automation within the RizePoint Management Console to help ensure that continuous improvement standards are quickly met at every location in which our clients operate. Plus, when important items need to be addressed, RizePoint pulls those to the surface and makes it easy for regional and local managers to quickly remedy issues.

Needless to say, you know you have a friend in RizePoint when it comes to driving corrective actions in order to see continuous improvements. And, this is really where competitive advantages come into play.  There are dozens of “wanna-be’s” who want to be like you. Continuous improvements help you outpace the competition. This is another way RizePoint works to meet our operational pillar of building lasting customer success. Helping you stay ahead of your competition is important to us. When you’re successful, we’re successful.

Using RizePoint tools to help your operation drive quality is a wise choice, especially when facing the daunting opponents of regulatory requirements. If you haven’t already, I challenge you to look into some of the many ways RizePoint can provide assistance as you work to master the regulations your organization faces.