Agriculture
Agriculture Industry
Fergal Agri services is a leading global player in the Assurance, sampling, Inspection of agricultural commodities. We operate at every stage in the agricultural product journey.
Fergal Agri services is a leading global player in the Assurance, sampling, Inspection of agricultural commodities. We operate at every stage in the agricultural product journey.
Fergal Agri Services stands at the forefront of global Assurance, sampling and Inspection for agricultural commodities. Our expansive operations cover every stage of the agricultural product lifecycle.
some of the key agricultural products that we inspect below.
1.Cereals 2.Oils and Feed 3.Pulses 4.Rice 5.Cotton 6.Cocoa 7.Sugar 8.Wood 9.Pellets
Agri inspection services provided by Fergal:
- Audit manufacture/ supplier
- Pre-Shipment Inspections
- Quality inspection
- Loading/Unloading Supervision
- Bulk cargo inspection
Audit manufacture/ supplier:
Your supply chain is only as good as its weakest link. The only way to ensure smooth running of your business and uninterrupted supply of goods is to thoroughly vet potential suppliers before integrating them into your supply chain.
factory Audits by Fergal are a cost- and time-effective way to prepare a complete profile of your potential supplier, ensuring they will become a reliable part of your global supply chain.
With a Fergal Audit Report in hand you will be able to confirm that the audited site is capable of delivering to your production specifications, address and prevent potential further costly disruptions once production is launched.
A manufacturing audit is typically implemented to confirm whether a potential new supplier is capable of meeting production and quality requirements.
The standard manufacturing audit covers:
-Factory profile
-Production capacities
-Factory facilities, including condition of machinery and equipment
-Workflow and organization charts
-Quality assurance systems in place
At the end of the audit, the factory is provided with a corrective action plan for targeted long-term improvement.
Our Manufacturing Audits offer a great degree of flexibility and can be customized to fit your specific requirements.
The following additional modules can be included in a Fergal supplier evaluation:
-Social responsibility and compliance
-Procurement conditions
-R&D – sampling capacity
-Hygiene, health and safety
-Environmental impact
-RoHS standards
-Other modules as required
Pre-shipment inspection
A pre-shipment inspection (PSI) is a random inspection comprising a detailed inspection of finished goods before shipment. It generally takes place in the manufacturer’s premises or at the harbor on samples randomly selected according to the defined statistical sampling procedure ISO 2859-1 or otherwise agreed with the customer. The inspection criteria may cover type identification, product conformity, safety, function, marking and safety hints, quality (consistent workmanship), quantity, packaging, unit completeness and compliance with the agreed specification.
Pre-shipment inspections ensure quality conformity in the global supply chain. These inspections help manufacturers to ensure the quality of their goods and protect importers from the risks of international trade.
A PSI is a systematic onsite inspection of units selected at random from all batches of your order, conducted when production is 80-100% complete.
Where issues are found, a PSI provides a final opportunity to take corrective action before a production run is finished and packed. As such, they are an effective tool to safeguard you against costly import mistakes.
Complex supply chains make it near impossible for most businesses to verify the quality and specifications of their finished products at their factories before they’re shipped.
The risks associated with poor quality products are also high. You may only have one shot at winning over today’s discerning consumer. In the hyper-competitive consumer products market, if your product doesn’t meet their quality expectations or is defective, it’s likely they’ll simply turn to your competitor next time.
A pre-shipment inspection provides peace of mind that your order has been filled successfully before it’s dispatched.
-Ensure that your supplier has met all agreed-upon specifications
-Verify quality standards with off-the-shelf checklists or with your own unique checks
-Check that production is on track
-Take corrective action before it’s too late
-Avoid returns and protect your brand’s image
-Verify final product quality when you cannot access the factory yourself
You can use a pre-shipment inspection to verify quality at the source and to avoid paying for defective products. Don’t rely on your factory to tell you the product meets all specifications, check for yourself.
The checks that are then carried out are tailored to match client requirements and the product in question. Fergal has an extensive range of off-the-shelf inspection checklists available that are designed for particular products. Clients can use these off-the-shelf checklists. Otherwise, when they require specific alternative checks to be carried out, they can add to one of these lists or create their own unique checklist.
Sampling inspections
When you import goods from overseas, you need them to meet your specifications as accurately as possible. You also need them to meet all health and safety requirements and be acceptable to your customers.
In sampling inspection, samples are taken from a target lot (inspection lot) for examination to determine the acceptability of the lot according to that lot’s quality standards. Thanks to the small number of items to be inspected compared to 100% inspection, manufacturers can save on inspection costs and time. Sampling inspection also allows for the examination of several test items that cannot otherwise be inspected in 100% inspection.
However, sampling inspections do not guarantee the quality of all manufactured products. Therefore, sampling inspections need a system that cuts inspection costs while taking into consideration the manufacturers and consumers’ benefits, while reducing the risk of nonconformity to ensure consistently high quality. This means that the inspection scheme and how the appropriate sample size for the manufacturing process is determined are very important.
Sampling inspection service involves a relatively small number of items from a batch or lot, for a range of specifications such as appearance, workmanship, safety, functions, etc. prior to mass production.
Loading/unloading supervision
Fergal loading/unloading supervision services inspect your products prior to or after shipment and have been developed in response to increasingly global markets, in which businesses sell to, and import supplies from, countries across the world. They aim not only to ensure that those goods being shipped are those that were assessed in final random inspections but also to prevent costly mishandling of goods.
The aim of our container loading supervision service is to ensure that products are loaded and secured correctly, regardless of whether they are to be transported by container, ship or truck. A container loading check may cover :
Quantity verification
Traceability of products – including verification of production codes, plant numbers and stock numbers against a packing list or invoice
Verification of external and internal operating conditions of containers
Cleanliness inspection of trailers or containers for debris, insects and vermin, for example
Temperature monitoring inspection
Packaging
Labeling
Shipping marks for regulatory compliance (for example bar code checks)
Documentation of any damage observed during loading
Photographs of packing and loading processes
Documentation of container, vessel and seal number
As soon as loading has been completed, on client’s special request, we seal containers to reduce the risk of tampering, theft and substation.
Unloading supervisions include similar checks of container integrity against checklists or invoices, to avoid import disputes and ensure products arrive in the same state in which they were loaded.
Container Loading Supervision provides reassurance that your finished goods are handled correctly when loaded into containers to ensure safe transportation and delivery to their destination in a satisfactory condition. Sometimes referred to as Container Loading Inspection, this service usually takes place at the factory or your forwarder’s premises and occurs after a pre-shipment inspection (PSI).
Fergal Inspectors examine a range of important criteria to ensure accurate quantities of your products are loaded and handled correctly to protect your goods during shipment. We also verify the container is properly sealed and the documentation for customs inspection is available
Bulk cargo inspection
Fergal helps protect high value bulk commodity cargos, significantly reducing risk of loss exposure to the trading parties involved.
Inspection occurs during critical transportation, custody transfer and storage operations. Fergal with a long track record of experience and success, performs inspection services to global industry standards and other recognized criteria.
Measuring cargo quantity (Draft survey, Ullage survey) and quality:
High value bulk commodities like crude oil, chemicals, fuels, grains, edible oils and many other products are measured, analyzed and verified for shipment and inventory quantity and quality.
-Fumigation services:
Inspectors survey and sample representative product from bulk storage tanks, tankers, cargo ships, barges, shore storage and transfer facilities, railcars and warehouses. Fergal chemists follow accepted industry and regulatory methods and practices to obtain accurate, reliable and repeatable results.
