Supply Chain

Recalls can be dangerous for the consumer, but they are also downright detrimental to the consumer goods companies involved as consumers abandon a recalled brand for another in the interim, or worse, for life. CGT asks analysts from AMR Research, Hitachi Consulting and IBM to identify the primary causes of product recalls and how your company can monitor external production operations to thwart those causes.

Contributing author Simon Ellis, practice director, supply chain strategies for Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, provides step by step instructions on how supply chain professionals can better sense and respond to massive amounts of data rather than become victim to it.