This programme aims at developing participants’ understanding of the importance of food safety by digitalization to overcome the key challenges in food business and build resilience through digitalization in different sectors: F&B, retail and supply chain. Resilience helps fighting the disruptions in an uncertain environment by building resistance and the ability to recover to a better position during uncertain situations such as a pandemic reduction of manpower, inconsistency of quality, and supply chain disruption etc. It also aims to equip participants with various tools and new technologies to improve efficiency, productivity, workflows, and customer experience. It helps food businesses to reduce costs and waste by automating and streamlining business processes and well-utilized company resources to enhance company resilience and sustainability.

Learning Outcomes

• To review the importance of food safety and principles of FSSC22000 International Food Safety System
  
• To identify key challenges and build resilience in food business under uncertain situations
• To understand the use of new technologies such as big data analytics and IoT in different food sectors
• To gain practical tools for the utilization of digitalization in F&B, retail and supply chain sectors
• To gain further insight into the application of digitalization to offer safer, more efficient, more effective and economic solutions in the food chain and so enhancing their competitiveness

Course Outline

Module 1: Importance of food safety and overview of challenges in food business

Objectives:

1) Importance of Food Safety Management and Principle of FSSC22000 International Food Safety System & practical tool of Plan- Do-Check-Act (PDCA)

• The importance of Food Safety Management System (FSMS) and its benefits
• The key concepts and main requirements FSSC 22000 and ISO 22000 :2018
• The application of digitalization on improving food safety and productivity, hence reducing cost, and improving profit
• Plan- Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle ensures the processes are adequately resourced and managed, and to identify opportunities for improvement

2) Application of Digitalization in Food Business Nowadays (2 topics alternatively in 4 Intakes)

• Digitalization Processes in Supply Chain (Class 1 and 2)
• A New Symbiosis: Smart Food Industry Meets Digitalized Consumer (Class 3 and 4)

3) Successful case sharings

e.g. Supply Chain empowers food safety and digital economy: A Case Study of Good Customer Experience.

Module 2: Digitalization trends in food business and use of digital technologies

Aim to equip executive in gaining basic and practical knowledge for digitalization. Keeping up with the business trend, and mastering the user experience design, executive can be able to get start in their digital journey, driving business results and innovations.

1.Identification of the key challenges and building resilience under uncertain situations by user experience design

2.Challenges and Digitalization trends in food business (Latest research outcome sharing from HKFORT)

3.Basic principles for Industry 4.0 in food business

4.Overview of digital technologies
The basic understanding of latest technologies ABCD R (Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud, Big Data, Robotics)

5.Preparation (Considerations) for digitalization and KPI for managing, measuring the digitalization solution

6.Successful case sharings
e.g How companies can leverage digitalization and Industry 4.0 to improve their process control, production, maintenance, logistics and customer service
e.g Real case on digitalized reindustrialization sharing by HKPC

Class Schedule

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