IFS Broker Version 3.2 for Management Course

Your IFS Broker certificate rests on decisions only management can make. This course shows you which ones, and what to ask your quality team about each.

IFS Broker Version 3.2 for Management is written for directors, owners, partners and senior managers of trading, import, export, agency and brokerage businesses. It explains what the Standard expects of you personally: the corporate policy, product safety culture, measurable objectives, the resources and investment behind KO n° 1, telling customers and the certification body in time, and a management review that decides things.

It also shows you how the systems you pay for actually work. You will see where the eight KO requirements and the usual Major findings sit in a trading business, how supplier approval and customer acceptance protect you, how traceability and recall are proved, how an audit is scored from A to D and how the certificate is won, renewed and kept. Every lesson ends with decisions for you to make and questions to put to your quality team on Monday.

Five case files follow fictional South African traders, led by Kalahari Crest Trading (fictional), a Cape Town exporter of citrus and pome fruit that also sells customer branded dried fruit and nut mixes. The cases are training scenarios built from real audit patterns.

This is an independent ASC Food Safety Consultants course. It explains IFS Broker Version 3.2 in ASC’s own words. It is not an IFS course and is not endorsed by IFS Management GmbH. Read the exact wording of every requirement in your own copy of the Standard, which is free to download from the IFS website.

What the course covers

Module 1 explains who IFS Broker Version 3.2 is for, what certification earns the business, how the Standard is built, the eight KO requirements as a management risk register and the scope decisions only management can make. Module 2 covers senior management commitment: policy, product safety culture, objectives, KO n° 1 resources, structure and deputies, legal updates, notifying customers and the certification body, and the management review. Module 3 covers risk management (KO n° 2), supplier approval and evidenced customer acceptance, sourcing areas, food fraud, logistics contracts, parcel services and product defence. Module 4 covers specifications (KO n° 3), traceability (KO n° 4), customer analyses (KO n° 6), withdrawal and recall (KO n° 7), complaints and trends, internal audits (KO n° 5) and corrective actions (KO n° 8). Module 5 covers the certification body, audit duration, scoring, foundation and higher level, the action plan, certificate validity, the renewal and unannounced windows, the logo and staying ready all year.

Each module ends with a knowledge check of 15 questions drawn from a bank of 20, and a scenario game of 10 management decisions drawn from 12. The course closes with a final assessment of 40 questions drawn from a bank of 63, with 45 minutes, a pass mark of 70 percent and three attempts.

This is an independent ASC Food Safety Consultants course. It explains IFS Broker Version 3.2 in ASC’s own words. It is not an IFS course and is not endorsed by IFS Management GmbH. Read the exact wording of every requirement in your own copy of the Standard, which is free to download from the IFS website.