| Finished Goods Traceability |
| Overview |
| rfXcel’s Finished Goods Traceability System provides manufacturers with a complete demand-side traceability solution for their distribution channels. The growing number of food health-related incidents and highly-publicized and expensive recalls has highlighted the need for traceability of products shipped to distributors and retailers. Traceability has moved from a "nice-to-have" option on the back burner, to a "must-have" strategic business requirement to protect public health, maintain competitiveness, and mitigate business risks. |
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| Business Problem |
| Demand-side traceability requires the ability to trace and follow finished goods throughout complex distribution channels that ultimately deliver products to retailers for sale to consumers. It involves the genealogy of batches and lots, and recording data attributes, events, and transactions. When an incident or recall occurs, companies without traceability systems in place are confronted by the need to rapidly answer questions such as: |
| — How can I quickly determine my exposure and risks? |
| — Which products and batches or lots are involved? |
| — Where are the suspect batches or lots right now? |
| — Which of my customers are affected? |
| Solution – Finished Goods Traceability System |
| rfXcel’s Finished Goods Traceability System provides a comprehensive demand-side traceability solution, providing forward and backward tracking of materials, ingredients, and products. The system eliminates paper-based and error-prone methods, providing extensive visibility into downstream inventories and locations. The system includes an online hub for Manufacturers, web portals for distribution channel partners, and automated system-to-system interfaces for all participants. |
| The system employs an SaaS model and is easily implemented alongside the existing IT systems within your company, minimizing the impact to your existing systems and IT infrastructure. And rfXcel’s wide range of flexible data formats and communications methods enables simple and rapid integration with your downstream partners, to automate the collection of real-time data from your distribution channel. |
| Key Benefits |
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Protect Your Brand and Enhance Its Marketability |
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Achieve Complete Traceability of Finished Goods Distribution |
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Respond More Quickly to Quality And Safety Issues |
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Minimize The Costs, Exposure, And Disruption of Recalls |
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| Key Features |
| Integrated Track & Trace – Developed on rfXcel’s Everest™ Track & Trace Platform, the system supports industry standards and technologies already in place, including EAN.UCC, GS1, and EPCglobal. This supports whatever your distribution channel uses - batches, lots, serial numbers, bar codes and/or RFID tags. |
| Continuous Real-Time Updates – A robust event model records and integrates real-time transactions and updates of finished goods movements from your distribution channel participants, 24x7x365. |
| Comprehensive Database – rfXcel’s database provides a rich and extensible set of configurable attributes to track all the required and desired data elements of materials, ingredients, and products. |
| Online Access and Reporting – Immediate access to an online searchable database of real-time data, with the ability to perform ad-hoc searches and generate custom reports for viewing and export. |
| Real-Time Authentication – The ability for downstream channel participants to authenticate products (using lots and/or serial numbers), as well as built-in capabilities to certify transactions. |
| Recall Notifications – Automated processing for recalled products, via email, pager, or cell-phone, with multi-level notification facilities. |
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