Case Study: Handgards achieves stronger quality compliance and supply chain control with Elemica Quality

Achieving Growth in a Competitive Global Market via Supply Chain Quality Assurance

Handgards, a North American leader in foodservice plastic disposables, needed a better way to manage rapidly growing quality, compliance, and social-assessment documentation across a complex global supply chain. With most finished products coming from overseas suppliers and increasing customer and regulatory demands, the company’s spreadsheet-based process became slow, difficult to manage, and eventually overwhelmed by the volume of COAs, audits, and certification records. Elemica Quality was brought in to help address these supplier quality management and traceability challenges.

Elemica implemented Elemica Quality to centralize quality data, automate supplier documentation workflows, support SPC and trend analysis, and replace paper-based audit forms with a digital repository. The solution also improved shipment validation and nightly order-versus-delivery checks, helping Handgards catch missing COAs and inconsistencies more quickly. As a result, Handgards saved time, reduced costs, improved quality assurance, and eliminated significant physical storage needs for audit records while giving suppliers clearer feedback through dashboards.

Handgards

Ana Ramos

VP of Quality