AUTOMATED RECALL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
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Abstract
A computerized recall management tool permits an organization to recognize and proactively manage events that can indicate a need to initiate a product recall. Product performance data often is made available to an organization through very diverse communication channels, including from customers, distributors, suppliers, governmental or industry agencies in addition to its internal manufacturing and testing sources. The recall management tool may include modules to recognize patterns of product defects from product performance data, to model an extent to which a product defect may proliferate throughout its distributed products, to alert operators when such patterns are detected, to manage regulatory reporting events and other notification milestones and to manage a recall itself.
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20. A computerized recall management system, comprising:
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a communications system to facilitate communications regarding a product defect, comprising;
a data harvesting agent to receive product performance data for a product in a product distribution chain;
a product defect data solicitation unit to solicit product defect data from product distribution chain sources upon detection of the product defect;
a recall reporting system, storing a plurality of reporting templates representing recall reporting requirements, to generate a plurality of recall reports for a plurality of external entities from stored recall repository data and solicited product defect data according to parameters defined in the reporting templates, wherein each report to each external entity is unique; and
a recall notification system to generate and transmit recall notifications to entities affected by the product defect, wherein each recall notification to each affected entity is unique;
an early warning and assessment system to analyze the received product performance data received from the product distribution chain sources and detect product defect patterns from the received product performance data;
a recall repository to store product performance data identifying product defects, recall operations data representing performance of the recall, and recall performance data to be included in the plurality of recall reports; and
a recall operations system to manage recall operations of a product subject to a recall. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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