Food processing | Profit under pressure
Why recalls get bigger than they should
Operational insights for food processing leaders
Based on 50 years of food industry experience and more than 1200 implementations, Food Signals explores the conditions shaping food manufacturing today from labor and production planning, to inventory and traceability, costing and supply chain performance.
Conditions That Expand Recall Scope is a 5-minute read for COOs, CFOs, operations, and finance leaders in food and protein processing.
Product history is easy to manage until complexity increases. New products, ingredients, suppliers, and create more information to track across the operation. If lot definitions, rework activity, and production records are not connected, identifying affected product can become slower and less precise when a traceability event occurs.
3 questions to ask in your food plant
- Can rework be traced back to its original source material?
- How many systems are required to answer a complete traceability question?
- As new products and suppliers are added, does traceability remain consistent across the operation?
