Supply Chain Management Blog

Food Industry is Susceptible to a large number of recalls considering their Perishable nature. Also, Contamination cannot be ruled out. But recall of large quantities of Food are rare. Major reasons involve contamination or, in several cases, Regulatory action due to presence of Non-permissible substances in the Food. There are numerous recalls over the years, particularly from Global brands who have their presence all around the world. Given below, is a look into some of the infamous Food Recalls.

Medical Device Recalls may not rake up high numbers as other consumer products do, but the pain people go through before and during the recall process makes them one of the most important product recalls. But tracking has been the major issue over the years as many devices, most of them implants, being untraceable once inside the human body. People literally live entire lives with these defective devices in them as their bodies creak and moan.

A car has thousands of parts in it. Earlier, it all used to be mechanical with a few electrical parts but the past two decades have seen automobiles with more electronics inside them than a computer has! This has raised the complexity so much that any number of trials and tests is not enough to identify the possible defects. Before 2000, most of the auto manufacturers preferred not to recall vehicles owing to high costs involved unless the issue was large and they were forced.

Pharma Industry involves one of the highest amounts of research and testing before going into production. Despite that, the truckload of errors and side-effects involved in medications and drugs certainly does not miss the attention. Only very few of these actually get noticed and reported, usually when the results are fatal or serious, but even that counts for a large number. Let us have a look at some of the largest drug and other pharma recalls in history.

CSCP which stands for Certified Supply Chain Professional. In this podcast, we will discuss the key elements of CSCP certification process such as

• Eligibility
• Membership

The World Bank has been instrumental in transforming the National Postal Services of several countries globally by critically analysing their services and the performances of these Establishments, since 1997. Seeing this development, the Indian Government too sought the help of the World Bank in order to bring about a reform in he Traditional Industry. The World Bank duly obliged, developing a report titled ‘Transforming a Postal Infrastructure’ The potential that laid untapped in the 

Inventory management refers to the set of practices that enable an organisation to differentiate between enough and excess inventory and implement the same to improve its operational efficiency. Here are some 12 rules which will be of assistance in effective inventory management.

1. Enterprise Inventory Policy
2. S&OP, MPS and MRP
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In 2002, the World Bank released its report on India Post, exploring the new opportunities and threats the future holds for India Post, from the time the report was released. Around 10 years later, India Post announced its plan to partner with e-commerce providers in 2013, to increase its business opportunities in search of a possible avenue for profits. India Post, is one of the biggest Public organizations in the country, with over a million employees and over 1,50,000 centres of operation.

With about 50 different ingredients, Domino’s Pizza has a complex source of raw materials. As per Domino’s a possible 34mn combinations have been worked out by them. Certainly, you would not want to have them all in your menu, but the number adequately testifies the choices in front of you at domino’s. This is possibly the most customizable food outlet in the world. Yet, for all this variety, Domino’s supply chain is based on a push concept for most of its operations. It is based on the familiar 

For any manufacturing organisation, we can divide the supply chain into two parts. One is the upstream supply chain and the other is downstream supply chain. In this podcast, I am going to discuss the need for multiple supply chains for the downstream. The downstream supply chain originates at the factory and ends with the delivery of the product to the end consumer.