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Multilingual Solutions for Food Industry Audits

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In international companies and those in countries with more than one official language, stakeholders can be quite diverse, especially when it comes to the languages they speak and are comfortable with. While this diversity certainly influences interoffice communication and plays into creating a pleasant work environment, it also plays an important role in organisational processes. Keep on reading to explore how multilingual companies in the food industry can accommodate stakeholders' language preferences to increase the efficiency of check, inspection, and audit management.

Embracing the Benefits of Multilingual Capabilities

Even in an unmistakably multilingual environment, companies can insist on using one language for all their business operations, e.g., the official language of the country or region that houses the company's headquarters or one of the global languages such as English. But is this really the best option, especially nowadays when digitalisation can enhance nearly every process, including the use of multilingual systems and tools?

Let's review why using multiple languages in a multilingual company is a good idea.

Take, for example, a large company located in a country with two official languages, or even four like Switzerland. Even if each region of that country had only one official language, it stands to reason that stakeholders could be from any region and could, therefore, speak any of the official languages. The company might even have multiple subsidiaries across the regions. Without multilingual systems and tools that allow equal use of all official languages, there would be significant communication difficulties between stakeholders and information sharing challenges between subsidiaries.

However, if all of the company's systems and tools have multilingual capabilities, i.e. if they can be used in any of the languages spoken in the company or its country, stakeholders have a much easier time collaborating and performing their tasks. Such capabilities ensure effective communication with all stakeholders; for example, with suppliers during supplier audits or with external contractors, who can address deficiencies much more efficiently if they receive work orders in a language they can easily understand.

Multilingual capabilities are especially beneficial during audits, inspections, even operational checks when accuracy is paramount for collecting reliable and useful information. Increased accuracy of all these processes ensures the creation of thorough and meaningful reports and greatly enhances compliance with the company and industry standards.

Even after the audit, it's important to make sure that all stakeholders have access to results, reports, and any generated insights regardless of their linguistic background. Increased accessibility inevitably leads to improved transparency, which greatly enhances operational and decision-making processes throughout the company.

Finally, overcoming the language barrier in international and multilingual companies can also result in greater expansion potential. Companies would no longer have to hesitate to expand to new markets and could instead focus on ways to widen their reach and achieve global growth.

Automated Solutions

In spite of the overwhelming advantages of multilingual systems, for many companies, their implementation poses a significant challenge. By using smart digital solutions their operational checks, inspections, and audits, companies can reap the benefits of a fully multilingual solution that requires no additional effort to set up. The ability to use multiple languages within the same system simultaneously and to the degree that is required by the company noticeably improves the efficiency of the auditing process even in cases when the auditor, manager of the audited subsidiary, and recipients of the audit report speak different languages. Automation offered by such solutions reduces the amount of effort needed to accommodate each stakeholder's language preferences, providing them with great benefits without increasing their workload.

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