SUCCESS STORY
Rapid Alternative Supplier Evaluation
Maintaining standards during disruptions
Challenge
Global citrus production faces mounting pressure from environmental factors, creating supply shortages and driving up costs across the industry. When primary suppliers face disruptions, beverage companies must quickly source from alternative suppliers to maintain production volumes.
Our client, a leading beverage company, needed to ensure consistent quality when working with new suppliers under time pressure. They needed to evaluate multiple alternative suppliers quickly while maintaining strict quality standards for Brix, Limonin, colour, and Total Titratable Acids (TTA).
The challenge was timing. Traditional lab testing could take days for each parameter, but their R&D team needed answers fast enough to secure new suppliers without compromising quality or causing production delays.
Solution
We worked with their R&D team to train ProfilePrint on their specific standards. Over six months, we collected 140 digital fingerprints of their citrus samples while their team provided the chemical analysis data needed to build models for all four key parameters. This collaborative approach meant ProfilePrint learned exactly what “good quality” meant for their products.
ProfilePrint achieved models with over 85% reliability, meeting their success criteria for quality assessment.
While ProfilePrint screens majority of their citrus samples, the model flags samples it is less confident about. These are typically samples that are more ambiguous, or that the AI model has not seen before. These samples are then sent for lab testing, and the results are fed back into the AI model, continuously strengthening its performance and confidence for future assessments.
What this means for your business
ProfilePrint now supports their supply chain resilience, enabling them to:
- Evaluate suppliers rapidly by generating predictions for all key parameters quickly and confidently
- Focus expert resources with their quality specialists concentrating on flagged samples that require further analysis
- Reduce testing bottlenecks by handling routine screening efficiently while maintaining quality standards
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