Aug 04, 2022

Protecting your company’s assets and maintaining effective track and trace operations can help eliminate downtime and reduce recalls. Studies show that on average, a food recall causes direct costs to the manufacturer upwards of $10 million and can damage consumer trust. However, in manufacturing and distribution industries, product recalls can slow innovation and force businesses to rework manufacturing processes, which studies show can cost a business $100 million. Without taking the right steps to avoid manufacturing errors and product recalls, businesses could see inflated expenses, eroded operational efficiency, incomplete supply chain visibility, slower shipping operations, unprepared inventory, and a damaged brand image with consumers.

Fortunately, an inconsistent fulfillment process that prevents scalability and creates recalls can be prevented or solved. By taking steps that improve scanning and connectivity, businesses can maintain consistent and accurate fulfillment to avoid recalls and adapt to rising challenges and expectations.

Choose to take steps that avoid shipping errors and recalls.

A business that doesn’t effectively take steps to protect its assets with reliable tracking and management solutions is at a higher risk of damaged customer trust. To prevent this, Heartland provides businesses with the help they need to improve the order fulfillment process and streamline asset tracking. Take charge of your shipping operations and follow these steps you can take to avoid recalls:

1. Target mistakes quickly - Challenging environments can make it difficult to consistently scan and therefore track and trace your assets because it demands more from your workers. Heartland’s scanning solutions can work nonstop, even under tough conditions, with versatile ergonomics and purpose-built form factors to deliver dependable performance. This proves essential when tracing assets and avoiding product recalls because it delivers real-time data access. Workers can pinpoint errors at the source, separate affected products, and find individual solutions before issuing mass recalls that damage brand identity.
2. Build faster connections - Implementing reliable connections and network management can help protect your operational efficiency and company assets. Ensuring your network and devices are AlwaysConnected helps connect your team for access to the relevant information they need to track and trace. A connected workforce creates smoother workflows to complete more orders and satisfy consumer demands.
3. Establish faster data capture for real-time visibility - Higher accuracy paired with advanced data capture creates faster response times to maximize productivity. When your business responds faster to demands and is more efficient, shipping errors and downtime are eliminated. Fewer errors and less downtime can help you avoid recalls.
4. Simplify deployment with an experienced support team - Ineffective asset and material tracking causes recalls and lost revenue. Luckily, a dependable tech support team can help expand solution visibility and tracking, thus eliminating blind spots in the setup process and protecting your mobile devices. When the devices that help track your assets are reliably operating, they help avoid more recalls and create smoother shipping processes. Heartland’s AlwaysOn services offer a faster and more dependable way to manage your devices and keep operations consistent.

Product recalls can drain expenses and erode operational efficiency, but taking steps that create smoother workflows and fast remediation can help avoid them. Contact us today for a free consultation on how we can help you strengthen your fulfillment process.