International Supply Chain Development

International expansion and the development of a credible supply chain for critical food products can become expensive and laborious without the help of people who have proven experience in both restaurant store operations, as well as critical experience in sourcing cost-effective, high quality food products on an international basis. Food Technical Consulting has traveled or worked with food suppliers in the following countries: Canada, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Morocco, and Turkey.

Food Technical Consulting business services include:

  • International supplier identification, qualification, and selection
  • Development and assessment of critical food safety and quality assurance programs like HACCP and various Global Food Safety Initiative standards like Dutch HACCP, British Retail Consortium (BRC), etc.
  • Development of quality assurance product and process specifications
  • Alternate international supplier cost reduction programs
  • Food testing and product matching with international sourced ingredients
  • International Project Management
  Products and Services
  • Food Innovation Workshops

    Food Innovation Workshops

    The Food Innovation Institute (FII), the education and training division of Food Technical Consulting sponsors unique food innovation classes on an international basis based on two Harvard Business Press innovation books.


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  • Structured Food Cost Reduction Consulting

    Structured Food Cost Reduction Consulting

    FTC uses its own copyrighted PROCAM© Process Cost Analysis Methodology at the manufacturing plant level to reduce your food costs through improved production efficiencies and unnecessary processing costs at the SKU level – sometimes called Activity Based Costing (ABC).


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  • Food Safety & Quality Assessment Consulting

    Food Safety & Quality Assessment Consulting

    FTC develops detailed food safety; HACCP, quality assurance, and product recall programs for emerging new restaurant chains, or a critical assessment of existing programs in established chains. These quality gap assessments are critical in identifying holes in your customer food safety shield.


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  • A – Z Food Truck Business Development Consulting

    A â Z Food Truck Business Development Consulting

    FTC is passionate about mobile food retailing, and has assembled an expert team of food safety and equipment experts, culinary chefs, business and financial analysts, attorneys, and operations experts to help aspiring business owners develop and implement successful business and marketing plans.


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  • Continuous Quality Product Improvement Consulting

    Continuous Quality Product Improvement Consulting

    FTC provides proven expertise and experience at continually driving quality of your products at the manufacturing level to insure your customers last eating experience equaled their first WOW moment – and at lower food costs when applicable.


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  • Foodservice Equipment Testing and Validation

    Foodservice Equipment Testing and Validation

    FTC retains the leading foodservice equipment engineering and testing consultants who have led and developed some of the most innovative equipment in history. FTC has led projects representing 40% cost reduction projects, and developed leading equipment innovations like Boston Market’s rotisserie cooking oven.


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  • Business Intelligence Analytics

    Business Intelligence Analytics

    FTC provides world-class Business Intelligence (BI) marketing, finance, and operations analytics using world-class software systems. Our business intelligence analytics begin with an assessment of business KPIs.


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  • Food Litigation Expert Witness

    Food Litigation Expert Witness

    Food Technical Consulting provides food litigation expert witness support to the restaurant industry in the areas of food product liability. plant safety, patent infringement product claims, contract disputes, product formulas, regulatory compliance, store operations safety, bioterrorism, and food processing issues.

     


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Darrel Suderman
Darrel Suderman, Ph.D., is president of Food Technical Consulting and founder of Food Innovation Institute. He has held senior R&D/QA leadership positions at KFC, Boston Market, Church's Chicken and Quiznos and led KFC’s development team of “Popcorn Chicken”, now a $1B international product –invented by Gene Gagliardi.