Yesterday's Traceability - Inadequate For Today's Needs

Over 99% of all food manufacturers failed to meet current Homeland Security and customer traceability requirements. Meanwhile commercial and legal risks, including incarcerations for managers, have increased significantly.

Surprisingly, over 95% of food & beverage manufacturers who claimed compliance failed even basic requirements tests. These companies typically relied on the fairly limited traceability provided by their business / ERP system.

Paper systems did no better. Even in the cases where the correct data was being collected, the sheer number of documents required and the need to cross reference the data, made timely retrieval impossible.

These solutions do allow some level of traceability. However , the traceability paradigm has expanded dramatically from simply knowing what items you sent to whom to knowing the items, logistics path, lot details, manufacturing genealogy, etc. for every product and ingredient anywhere in your supply chain, past or present .

Managed Recall

Recall campaigns can be organized by a variety of individual or combined factors including items, lots, sub-lots, customers, shipping facility, etc

Recalls often expand from one item and/or lot to other items and/or lots that shared ingredients or processes. The Recall and Traceability module makes handling the expansion easy by providing the option of including those shared ingredients/lots as well as subsequent finished goods products/lots.

Recall customer notification can be approached via the automatically generated email lists or via automatically generated phone lists.

Often some of the suspected products/lots and/or the ingredients products/lots are still in-house or otherwise under the enterprise control. The Recall and Traceability module quickly identifies that inventory and, depending on the system configuration, will place the impacted inventory on hold or produce a list of the inventory so that it may be manually placed on hold.