At Points North Certified, we help food companies expand their reach and increase sales while maintaining strict safety standards and operational integrity. Our approach is tailored to align your food safety and production capacity with your growth objectives. By thoroughly evaluating your current throughput, identifying bottlenecks, and understanding your facility’s safe scaling limits, we develop strategic, intentional growth plans.
No reckless expansion, only practical, sustainable strategies that reinforce safety, protect your team, and match your facility’s real-world capabilities. Whether launching new SKUs, entering new markets, or scaling production, we’ll build a solid growth foundation that supports long-term success.
Our roots are in food manufacturing, and that’s where we thrive. We understand the unique challenges food companies face: strict regulatory demands, high SKU complexity, workforce turnover, production planning, and tight margins. We’ve built our consulting approach to solve these problems head-on with proven systems that align teams, clarify leadership, and create space for growth.
Great business fundamentals transcend sectors. We’ve seen firsthand that the same principles of organizational alignment, strategic planning, and process clarity can dramatically improve outcomes in any business.
That said, the principles we use, strategic alignment, organizational clarity, and daily improvement, apply to any industry. If you're ready to lead your business with less stress and more direction, we're here to help.
Our Services / Business Consulting / Sales and growth
Assess industry trends, customer needs, and emerging markets to identify the most promising growth opportunities.
We offer strategic and operational consulting to help businesses, especially in the food manufacturing sector, run smoother, scale smarter, and lead with clarity. Whether you're overwhelmed by daily operations or planning your next stage of growth, our services are built to support you.
Evaluate your sales channels, retail, e-commerce, and direct sales, and refine strategies to maximize distribution efficiency and market coverage.
Analyze your current operational capacity to identify bottlenecks and constraints, ensuring your facility can support planned growth without compromising safety or quality.
Develop plans for launching new SKUs or expanding existing product lines, aligning inventory and production with growth targets.
Build a safety-conscious growth roadmap that balances ambitious sales goals with operational realities, ensuring sustainable expansion.
Evaluate your open capacity and align it with high-margin sales opportunities, enabling targeted growth and maximizing profitability.
Implement KPIs, dashboards, and regular reviews to track sales performance, monitor bottlenecks, and adjust strategies proactively.
Train your sales and operations teams to execute growth strategies cohesively, fostering a culture of aligned effort and continuous improvement.
Review and refine pricing strategies to improve margins while remaining competitive in your target markets.
We specialize in helping businesses move from reactive operations to strategic, system-driven growth. Our consulting process is clear, collaborative, and built around real business needs.
We begin with a focused conversation designed to gain a clear understanding of your business, its unique challenges, and your long-term goals. This thoughtful discussion allows us to identify pressure points and evaluate whether our services are the right fit to support your success.
Next, we conduct a full review of your company structure, job roles, workflows, and communication systems. We look at how your teams operate from leadership to the production floor to build a clear picture of where improvements are needed.
You receive a tailored plan with prioritized action steps. We focus on practical changes that drive results streamlined processes, communication, leadership alignment, and a scalable foundation.
We stay hands-on during implementation, helping you roll out changes, coach leaders, and build habits that stick. Our goal is to equip your team with the tools and confidence to keep growing, with confidence!
Our team brings decades of hands-on validation experience across multiple food sectors, including meat & poultry, baked goods, snack foods, beverages, and more.
We provide guidance for ongoing validation activities, re-validation schedules, and performance monitoring to sustain food safety over time.
Our validation reports and protocols are comprehensive, transparent, and designed to support your internal records, external audits, and regulatory inspections.
We tailor validation procedures to meet FDA, USDA, GFSI, and other relevant standards, ensuring your processes are audit-ready and certification compliant.
Our relationship doesn’t end once your programs are created. We offer ongoing support, help monitor performance, and review your systems periodically to identify areas for improvement, ensuring your food safety practices stay current and effective.
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