IFS Progress

IFS Progress helps you move from basic compliance to full certification with a practical, phased approach. Build confidence, demonstrate progress, and get closer to IFS certification on your timeline.
Certification
IFS Progress

IFS Progress

IFS Progress helps you move from basic compliance to full certification with a practical, phased approach. Build confidence, demonstrate progress, and get closer to IFS certification on your timeline.
Certification

IFS Progress audits for Food, Logistics, and PACsecure provide a step-by-step assessment approach for companies that need to strengthen their safety, quality, and compliance systems but aren’t quite ready for full certification. Whether you’re manufacturing food, managing storage and distribution, or producing packaging materials, this program offers a practical framework to evaluate your operations on-site—helping you identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and build toward compliance in manageable stages while demonstrating real progress to your customers.

For your business, that means less risk and more control across your operations and supply chain. Instead of jumping straight into a high-stakes certification audit, you can improve systems at a pace that works for your team, meet customer and retailer expectations sooner, and reduce the likelihood of costly issues or audit failures. The result is a stronger, more consistent operation—and a clear, confident path toward full IFS certification.

IFS Progress audits for Food, Logistics, and PACsecure are development programs designed for companies across the food supply chain (including food manufacturers, logistics providers, and packaging material producers) who need to strengthen their safety, quality, and compliance systems.

These programs apply to production sites, storage and distribution operations, and packaging manufacturing facilities, covering all relevant products, processes, and activities within the assessed scope. Using a product- and process-based assessment approach, IFS Progress evaluates compliance with food safety, product safety, quality, legal, and customer requirements.
Structured in progressive levels (basic and intermediate), the programs support companies in building and improving their management systems over time, providing a clear, step-by-step pathway toward full IFS certification in Food, Logistics, or PACsecure.

The IFS Progress assessment provided by our experts follows a consistent, step-by-step process across Food, Logistics, and PACsecure:

  1. Self-assessment or pre-assessment (optional)
  2. Initial assessment at basic or intermediate level
  3. Annual renewal assessment
  4. Follow-up assessment, if required, to verify corrective actions and resolve non-conformities
  5. Progression toward full IFS certification

During the assessment, experts evaluate your operations on-site—whether manufacturing, logistics, or packaging—to determine compliance with safety, quality, and customer requirements, with a focus on continuous improvement and readiness for certification.

Key Features

Accelerate Market Access Without Certification Risk

Gain a recognized, structured pathway to meet customer and retailer expectations without the immediate pressure of full certification. Demonstrate progress and credibility while positioning your business for new contracts and growth.

Strengthen Food Safety Systems with Practical, Scalable Improvements

Build a compliance system that works in real operations. The stepwise approach allows your team to implement improvements at a manageable pace, reducing disruption while increasing consistency and control.

Reduce Audit Risk and Protect Your Brand

Identify gaps early, correct issues before they escalate, and avoid costly audit failures. IFS Progress helps you proactively manage risk, safeguard your reputation, and move confidently toward full certification.

Certification is provided by AIB International Certification Services, a wholly owned subsidiary and separate company. Use of AIB International’s consulting and training services does not influence certification outcome.

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