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For retailers, keeping track of product quality and safety issues is a must. In fact, failure to do so may cause serious problems for a retailer both now and in the future. 

Effective product quality and safety management is difficult, but it is a requirement to ensure compliance with federal and/or corporate regulations. Thus, if a retailer is unable to meet these requirements, it may face costly, time-consuming fines and penalties. 

Furthermore, even a single product failure or hazard could put a retailer, its brand reputation and its revenues in danger. And if a retailer is forced to recall a defective product, this business risks losing customers to rivals as well. 

Product quality and safety management may seem challenging, but business managers who dedicate the necessary time and resources to minimize product dangers can reap the benefits of their efforts for years to come. 

For example, managers who deploy an automated alerting system like PolyVista Alerts+ may be better equipped to prevent product failures and hazards altogether. 

Here's a closer look at PolyVista Alerts+ and how this system ensures managers can receive automated product safety alerts instantly. 

PolyVista Alerts+: Here's What You Need to Know

Business managers can streamline their product quality and safety management thanks to PolyVista Alerts+. This system ensures managers can proactively monitor product failures and hazards, leverage the product quality and safety data at their disposal and work toward minimizing such issues. Therefore, PolyVista Alerts+ may prove to be exceedingly valuable for managers, particularly those who want to maintain compliance with federal and/or corporate regulations. 

Furthermore, PolyVista Alerts+ enables managers to better protect a company's customers against dangerous products, along with safeguard a business brand reputation of your brand.

PolyVista Alerts+ provides an easy-to-navigate interface that allows managers to set up alerts based on keywords and phrases and ensure all safety issues in consumer complaints, product and warranty returns or other critical analyses of products are caught, reported and escalated to the right people. In addition, it offers customized parameters, user permissions and a workflow feature that helps users view and manage historical alerts. That way, in the event of an audit, the application generates detailed audit trails for each different alert or product.

Perhaps best of all, PolyVista Alerts+ provides managers with the ability to set up escalation requirements that are automatically triggered based on alerts. And because PolyVista Alerts+ allows managers to receive automatic product safety updates via email, managers can track product failures and hazards effortlessly. 

Ultimately, how managers approach product quality and safety management can make a world of difference for a retailer and its customers. 

If a manager deploys an automated alerting system, he or she can enjoy the benefits of superior product quality and safety management. This manager will be better equipped to identify and address product failures and hazards consistently, along with minimize the risk that faulty products reach consumers.

On the other hand, a manager who fails to go above and beyond the call of duty to minimize product quality and safety concerns may put his or her company and its customers at risk. 

Human error can occur without notice, and if a manager is unable to identify and address product dangers immediately, a defective product could reach consumers. As a result, this defective product may cause long-lasting damage to a company and put its customers in danger simultaneously. 

Clearly, PolyVista Alerts+ may provide managers with greater control over product quality and safety management than ever before. With PolyVista Alerts+, managers can receive automated product safety alerts, ensuring they can proactively monitor product failures and hazards. It can even provide a retailer with a competitive advantage, guaranteeing this company can minimize product quality and safety issues and provide its customers with the best products day after day. 

Summary

Getting to the root cause of product quality and safety issues remains an ongoing problem for many retailers. Now, PolyVista Alerts+ empowers business managers to stay informed about product failures and hazards at all times. By implementing PolyVista Alerts+ into a product quality and safety management strategy, managers can resolve product failures and hazards faster than ever before and simplify the process of producing safe, reliable products.