LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF FOOD PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop integrated management systems by implementing, in an IMS, the lifecycle management of products and services (LCA) under a Management System, already existing Quality – Environment – OSH. The first part of the article contains a brief summary of the data in the literature on the principles and stages of implementing an Integrated Management System in an Organization. It continues with the implementation of LCA in a comprehensive way: the final product - for example apples. This includes a series of processes analyzed such as: apple cultivation, collection, transportation in regional centers, packaging, sales in retail markets and hypermarkets, plus related servants involved in the manufacture of packaging, washing machines, recycling, etc. In the second part of this article, we focus our interest on meeting the requirements of reference standards SR EN ISO 14040 series on LCA Management with SR EN ISO 9001 - Quality Management System. It further shows how the system design and system procedures are provided with mandatory operational procedures as well as the forms required by the SR EN ISO 14040 series standards. The approach takes into account the evolution of induced systemic process of economic globalization that makes it difficult to enter a business in one of the production chain of a product demanded by the market.