Business Justification for Digital Transformation

TITLE CARD: Neogen Analytics

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TITLE CARD: Business Justification for Digital Transformation

TITLE CARD: Leah Pridoehl, Digital Specialist

Dan Dwyer: Leah, what are you hearing from customers on how they're able to justify moving forward with a digital testing and sanitation program?

[An image of the Neogen Analytics software is shared on screen with Leah Pridoehl and Dan Dwyer on the side of the screen. The Neogen Analytics software screen shows a page titled "New Submittal". The page has a form with fields for "Policy", "Description", "Sample Tracking Number", and "Notes". Beside the form is an area with information for "Receiving Lab", "Lab Address", "Lab City", "Lab State", "Lab Zip Code", "Lab Email", and "Lab Phone".]

Leah Pridoehl: A lot of the justification that I talk about with the current customers and partners that we have on Neogen Analytics today is a combination of digitizing your automation and the result data that comes from it. So I think when you're able to digitize the workflow and the data — combining those two together, rather than just one or the other, is really where a lot of that payoff comes into play.

[An image of the Neogen Analytics software is shared on screen with Leah Pridoehl and Dan Dwyer on the side of the screen. The Neogen Analytics software screen shows a page titled "RTE Meat". The page shows a floorplan of a building with green, yellow, and red dots showing sample collection points.]

Leah Pridoehl: Pathogen testing is in this spreadsheet. Allergens are over here. We have ATP on its own data manager. Product testing is over in another silo. Sanitation as well. Transcribing errors when you're getting results back from your lab into your Excel spreadsheet. Forgetting to highlight a positive as a hot spot on a map or even just missing a step in a remediation process. I think, digitizing again that workflow is a big key piece to reducing risk.

[An image of the Neogen Analytics software is shared on screen with Leah Pridoehl and Dan Dwyer on the side of the screen. The Neogen Analytics software screen shows a page titled "Sample Analysis". The page shows a table of data. The cursor clicks on the button labelled "Create Sample Analysis".]

Leah Pridoehl: You can really just create a sample analysis within Neogen Analytics. Add your test points submit it to your lab, and then the results are automatically received right back to Neogen Analytics, which really helps your real-time auto alerts as well. So really reducing that time from day you swab, receiving result, and completing your remediation, if needed.

[An image of the Neogen Analytics software is shared on screen with Leah Pridoehl and Dan Dwyer on the side of the screen. The Neogen Analytics software screen shows a page titled "New Submittal". The page has a form with fields for "Policy", "Description", "Sample Tracking Number", and "Notes". Beside the form is an area with information for "Receiving Lab", "Lab Address", "Lab City", "Lab State", "Lab Zip Code", "Lab Email", and "Lab Phone".]

Leah Pridoehl: You're really able to leverage The Neogen Analytics platform and utilize the system to ensure compliance for not only your internal policies but external or regulatory policies. So, for instance here, if I'm going to create a new sample submission for product testing.

[The cursor on screen moves over a drop-down menu under the field labelled "Policy". The screen scrolls down to a button labelled "Add Sample" and selects it. A pop-up window appears titled "New Sample" with form fields labelled "Sample Number", "Is this a Composite Sample", Floor Plan", "Location", "Start Collection Date", "End Collection Date", and "Collected By".]

Leah Pridoehl: I've just selected my policy. This is "Quarterly Pathogen Testing". You can fill in, of course, lot and tracking number, but when I go to add my samples now, instead of having to remember how much of the sample do I have to collect or what what analysis types am I sending this to the lab for, you can enter your sample number and then again relate it back to the floor plan and location to really increase that drawing of those lines together.

[The screen scrolls down in the pop-up window titled "New Sample" showing additional form fields labelled "Product Type", Category", "Reason", "Description 1", "Description 2", "Description 3", "Test Methods", and "Sample Size".]

Leah Pridoehl: You see as I scroll down it automatically has that this has to be tested for Listeria and Salmonella and here's my sample size options that I have to choose from so not going to have anybody accidentally pulling 2.5 grams they know that you're at least pulling 25 here. So really, again building in those policies in the background to ensure a policy-driven and compliant program will help increase the Integrity of the data that is now, on top of that, being automated and digitized for you.

[The screen changes to the Neogen Analytics program home screen. The cursor clicks "Environmental Monitoring" in the sidebar navigation and selects "Floorplan" in the sub-menu. The screen changes to a page showing the floor plan of a facility with multiple red, green, and yellow dots.]

Leah Pridoehl: Part of digitizing data, of course, is standardization, but really helping you draw a line for if I did end up on an "Out of Spec" on product, can I relate that back to, if I go to my floor plan, I see that slicer five did have a positive. That is where my product was manufactured, on that line, and maybe I was able to kind of draw that line to: "The sanitation process for this slicing area was not verified that day" and really help — instead of having to do the pin board and the yarn and be a detective on on a white board — help draw all those lines between those data points just right here and have it automatically done for you.

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