About
The Alliance for Recall Ready Communities seeks to revolutionize the recall landscape, making it safer, more efficient, and better prepared for the challenges of the modern world. Together, we can achieve a recall ready future where communities are resilient in the face of product recalls.
Vision
Modernizing recalls starts with modernizing our approach. In today’s interconnected world, isolated recall processes create inefficiencies. Our vision is a collective effort for managing recalls within a supply chain community, ensuring faster, more effective responses.
Mission
We bring together a wide spectrum of stakeholders to improve recall readiness and consumer safety. Our mission is to define and promote new best practices in recall management through a collaborative process, standardized data, and real-world simulations.
Background
It’s safe to say that over the last 30 years, despite efforts from industry and regulatory agencies alike, effective recall response has not kept pace with huge advances in both technology and distribution. What has stood in the way? Not the lack of desire, but the lack of an approach in which everyone in the supply chain is working together with a shared plan and standardized data. This approach is what we refer to as a Recall Ready Community.
Current industry norms consider recalls the activity of individual companies. Practice and execution are done on an individual basis. For example, mock recalls are generally static tabletop exercises that do not strengthen the collaboration between trading partners towards the common goal of quickly removing defective products.
Rather than suppliers engaging in a practiced business process and helping the entire supply chain take action, crisis mode kicks in, causing inaccuracies, communication challenges, delays, and confusion. The absence of coordination hampers the ability to protect both consumers and brands as quickly as possible.
Thus, we need a common sense and technologically advanced approach to the recall process for the benefit of consumers, led by the industry, and in close consultation with the regulators. This approach will unite supply chains into Recall Ready Communities using standard data and shared simulation exercises, and in so doing, bring about a global Recall Ready Community.
Membership
The Alliance is open to all interested stakeholders who are committed to working together to make our Vision and Mission a reality.
We aim expand our reach and influence within and beyond the recall ecosystem. We invite participation from industry organizations, government agencies, and compliance bodies to support and promote the concept of the Recall Ready Community.
