Avoiding a Recall TraceGains Urges Real-Time Alerts

mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to protect thebrand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shippedto the customer. Tracing and tracking to meet government or commercial compliancerequirements, delivered by the right traceability system provider, can be leveragedto also give agri-food executives a more complete, decision-support instrument panelfor operational decision-making that goes well beyond traceability. This newgeneration of corporate instrumentation provides executives, managers andsupervisors specific information they need to make a wide range of operationaldecisions, not just traceability decisions. It can also generate alerts from thein-line supervisor to the CEO to allow them to take the needed corrective actions toprotect or gain value from their supply chain. According to William Pape, Founder and Executive Vice President at TraceGains,"Having a traceability systems means you can generate real-time alerts whensomething is wrong in the supply chain, and that you can generate near real-timeviews of your operation to make better operational decisions. Most in-housetraceability systems can't accomplish these tasks. To accomplish these tasks, youneed to collect the relevant information from each process step (hopefully usingautomatic data collection technology such as barcode or RFID), maintain identityacross product transformations, and reroute these data into an event-oriented datamart, possibly adding some electronically collected new data. This event-orienteddata mart then contains the pedigree of each carton leaving your plant, a repositoryof product attributes and key events during the life cycle of each production unit.This pedigree data mart can be used to uncover hidden relationships between upstreamevents or product attributes and desired downstream outcomes such as therelationship between incoming raw product characteristics and the raw productconversion percentage in the plant."Avoid a RecallThe best outcome for a recall is preventing the recall in the first place.TraceGains continuously monitors the enterprise, co-packers, contract manufacturers,and upstream suppliers for compliance with business rules and regulation mandates.Real-time alerting and risk assessment adds an extra safety net and layer of brandprotection. Continuous Compliance and a Risk Assessment dashboard bringexception-based management capabilities to the entire organization.Minimize Recall DamageIf a problem does occur this unique solution can minimize the brand damage by usingpatented recall trace-back and track-forward technologies. A recall alert can beinitiated within minutes, reducing potentially bad news to one news cycle, andsaving customers millions of dollars in long-term brand rehabilitation costs. TheRecall Detective analyzes critical risk factors, going beyond material movementtracking; the Recall Minimizer provides instant multiple scenarios for reduced branddamage.Increase ProfitsBy correlating and analyzing previously disparate data sets in the value chain, onlyTraceGains makes it possible to connect upstream inputs, suppliers, and rawmaterials to downstream outcomes such product quality or customer satisfaction.Firms can coach or replace poorly performing suppliers and counteractprofit-draining events within the enterprise, as well perpetuate positive practicesinternally and throughout the supply chain, to achieve complete profit optimization.According to Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains, "Stuff happens. No matter how wellHACCP, GMP, GAP or other systems work. Our solution continuously monitors allcritical supply chain risk points, both within and outside the four walls of anenterprise. The system alerts busy managers to high-risk potential problems on anexception basis, so they can take action on the most critical and preventableproblems before they are received for processing or shipped to customers."TraceGains Inc.www.tracegains.comMarc Simony, Director of Marketingtraceability@tracegai ns.com(303)682-9898

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