| Raw Materials & Ingredients Traceability |
| Overview |
| rfXcel’s Raw Materials & Ingredients Traceability System provides manufacturers with a complete supply-side traceability solution for their supply chain. The growing number of food health-related incidents and highly-publicized and expensive recalls has highlighted the need for traceability of products back to the very beginning of the supply chain. 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 |
| Traceability requires the ability to trace and follow materials, ingredients, and products throughout complex supply chains that provide all stages of production, processing, packaging, and distribution. It involves the exchange of data attributes, the genealogy of batches and lots, and recording the events from the point of origin through shipment to customers. 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 ingredients, batches, and suppliers are involved? |
| — Which of my products and customers are affected? |
| Solution – Raw Materials and Ingredients Traceability |
| rfXcel’s Raw Materials and Ingredients Traceability System provides a comprehensive supply-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 inventories and locations. The system includes an online hub for Manufacturers, web portals for supply chain 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 upstream partners, to automate the collection of real-time data from the entire supply chain. |
| Key Benefits |
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Protect Your Brand and Enhance Its Marketability |
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Achieve Complete Traceability of Incoming Materials |
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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 supply chain 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 data from supply chain 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. |
| Audit Trails – Complete genealogy and audit trails including materials, ingredients, processes, transactions, locations, and attributes, to trace batches and lots throughout their entire sequence of operations. |
| Real-Time Alerts – Continuous monitoring capabilities provide alerts and messages via email, pager, or cell-phone, with multi-level notification facilities. |
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