CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
April 2009
Product News
Going Nuts Over Recalls…How do you handle a supplier recall?
Earlier in the year is was the Peanut Corporation of America, now it is pistachios that are currently under investigation. Products including and made by these nuts are under close scrutiny. This makes a significant impact not only on American consumers directly, but also on other corporations.
How many companies does this impact?
Several corporations use pistachios in their products, while a significant more use the Peanut Corporation of America as a supplier for peanut paste to make cookies, candies, institutional peanut butter, and more.
Which brings us to ask-- how do you handle your suppliers in the event of a recall or a major supplier change? How do you track and control all of your formulas and recipes to ensure that they still comply when new ingredients are added and the others are removed?
DevEX, Selerant's Product Lifecycle Management software, enables formula-based manufacturers to collaborate more effectively with their suppliers. This collaboration allows you to view every detail of every material, down to the material specifications.
It also allows your developers to search for a specific ingredient from a supplier in formulas to make a global change.
So in the event of a massive recall (such as the peanuts), you could search for all formulas and make a global change with an ingredient from another supplier.
If the change to be made is smaller, you can optimize the formula with the Formula Optimizer tool to find the alternate ingredients that would still meet compliance with the least amount of impact on the current product formulation.
Once changes have been made, team members can run batch regulatory analysis reports, ensuring compliance for all of the changes made. The regulatory analysis will be run against the proprietary compliance issues stored for the selected regions where the products will be manufactured or distributed. These batch reports can be easily selected and then scheduled to run as well as automatically distributed upon completion.
This level of control and visibility is not reserved solely for emergencies. The definitive tools enable corporations to continuously track suppliers, vendors, and ensure higher levels of quality, cost, and time control.
Need more information? Selerant can walk you through each detail in a more personalized demonstration at your convenience. To schedule your demonstration, send a request to email@selerant.com.
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