Thursday 29 July 2010
HP cloud computing platform
Technology solutions provider HP announced on Monday along with the Canadian arm of GS1 the development of a cloud-based recall service that traces and removes potentially harmful food products from the supply chain.
No financial details were disclosed.
According to the company, the GS1 Canada Product Recall service will run on the HP cloud computing platform for manufacturing. Food and consumer products organisations can use the service to reduce errors, decrease the amount of time it takes to respond to a recall and lower the costs associated with managing the recall process.
The service will offer businesses: handling, disposal and reimbursement instructions to accelerate the recall process; the ability to customise alerts and target specific retailers with relevant information; a traceable security and audit trail to ensure compliance; as well as built-in security that sends notifications to authorised users and targeted retailers.
The service, developed in conjunction with HP Labs, consists of HP software, services and infrastructure as well as the Microsoft .NET Framework.
GS1 is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving supply chain efficiencie
