Title: Food safety and traceability: keeping consumers healthy and happy

• Food safety, compliance, product recalls, and brand reputation have forced many organizations in the food and beverage industry to question their ability to provide enterprise-wide traceability.
• These manufacturers are re-examining the success of their traceability initiatives; with a focus on creating product and process traceability across the: innovate, source, make, and deliver business processes.
• The focus of this new research will be in helping organizations understand how the Best-in-Class are reducing the impact of food safety incidents; ultimately decreasing the number of product recalls and improving the customer experience.

Matthew Littlefield Senior Research Analyst Aberdeen Group

As a Senior Research Analyst with the Aberdeen Group, Matthew drives Aberdeen's manufacturing research agenda and studies how manufacturing enterprises manage people, process, and technology to address continually changing market pressures. His areas of expertise include: Manufacturing Operations Management, Enterprise Quality Management and Compliance, Lean, Energy Management, and Technology Interoperability. Over the past three years at Aberdeen, Matthew has benchmarked the performance of over 5000 manufacturing executives, authored more than 50 research reports, and given over 25 presentations to audiences ranging in size from 25 to over 1,000. Matthew is also a frequent contributor to Aberdeen’s Manufacturing Advisor newsletter (reaching more than 60,000 subscribers globally), Aberdeen’s Manufacturing Research blog (http://research.aberdeen.com/index.php/-manufacturing-research ), and many other leading industry publications. Finally, Matthew is a recognized industry expert and continually advises manufacturing executives on how to best leverage technology in their operations. Prior to joining the Aberdeen Group, Matthew spent the last five years working for multi-billion dollar food manufacturers (Unilever, HP Hood) in both engineering and management roles. He has graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BA in Economics and MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.