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products, and also to fi nd and fi x whatever oversight or issue is at cause. A producer’s
supply chain may be made up of both pan-regional, and state or national warehouses,
fi lled with millions of units of potentially hundreds of different product lines. Each
product line may be supplied by several different manufacturers. Producers must
ascertain which products are affected; whether it is just products from one supplier
in particular, all products, or just those manufactured in a certain time period. The
compliance issue may be related only to specifi c components or materials e.g. lead
in plastic could be from either the pigment or plasticiser used (Fig. 16.2 ).
‘Block and
Clear-out’
Block compliant stock
until non-compliant
stock has been
cleared-out
‘Clear-out by
product
number’
In distribution each
product is assigned a
unique number or
‘stock code’.
Compliant items can
be assigned a new
number so noncompliant items can
be located and
cleared-out
‘FIFO control’
‘Audit and pullback’
Allow natural clearthrough of compliant
products using ‘first-in
first-out’ principle
Conduct physical
stock checks to sort
and push forwards
non-compliant
products into
distribution
Pallets of compliant product
Pallets of non-compliant product
Central warehouse
Country warehouses
Fig. 16.1 Stock management approaches to clear-out non-compliant products (Adapted from
Mayers 2011 )
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products, and also to fi nd and fi x whatever oversight or issue is at cause. A producer’s
supply chain may be made up of both pan-regional, and state or national warehouses,
fi lled with millions of units of potentially hundreds of different product lines. Each
product line may be supplied by several different manufacturers. Producers must
ascertain which products are affected; whether it is just products from one supplier
in particular, all products, or just those manufactured in a certain time period. The
compliance issue may be related only to specifi c components or materials e.g. lead
in plastic could be from either the pigment or plasticiser used (Fig. 16.2 ).
‘Block and
Clear-out’
Block compliant stock
until non-compliant
stock has been
cleared-out
‘Clear-out by
product
number’
In distribution each
product is assigned a
unique number or
‘stock code’.
Compliant items can
be assigned a new
number so noncompliant items can
be located and
cleared-out
‘FIFO control’
‘Audit and pullback’
Allow natural clearthrough of compliant
products using ‘first-in
first-out’ principle
Conduct physical
stock checks to sort
and push forwards
non-compliant
products into
distribution
Pallets of compliant product
Pallets of non-compliant product
Central warehouse
Country warehouses
Fig. 16.1 Stock management approaches to clear-out non-compliant products (Adapted from
Mayers 2011 )
16 Practical Implications of Product-Based Environmental Legislation