Track and Trace

Core Track and Trace Foundation for Serialized and Non-Serialized Products

Visibility into value chain product flows, and their related financial flows, is a fundamental requirement for optimizing your business performance. In today's trading networks, millions of non-serialized and serialized products flow between thousands of trade partners on a daily basis. Gaining visibility into and precise knowledge of product identity, status, location, and cross-ties to financial transactions will enhance decision-making and increase competitiveness, and build profitability.

Track and Trace Platform

SupplyScape's Nexus Platform and Product Security solution provides the core infrastructure, available on-demand via Software as a Service (SaaS), that companies need to gain and maintain visibility and control of your value chain operations. Built for today's world of varied product identification and mixed technological capabilities, the solutions were designed to provide immediate benefits while delivering built-in support for future industry initiatives such as item-level serialization, RFID tagging, and EPCIS network development.

• Nexus Platform - Nexus provides the core event services and pedigree value chain master data platform, synchronizing users, systems, and applications across the value chain. Providing a broad spectrum of network interfaces and integration capabilities, including Web Services support and EPCIS query/capture interfaces, Nexus delivers a scalable and interoperability foundation. On top of this interoperable foundation, Nexus combines extensive data exchange capabilities with a Web 2.0-based discovery and control interface to help business owners make the most of their value chain visibility.
• Product Security-ePedigree - PS-ePedigree provides the core pedigree data management system for companies seeking to establish and review a product's chain of custody from manufacture to dispensation. Leveraging a nationally regulatory compliant and EPCglobal-certified ePedigree base, PS-ePedigree provides network-wide access to a field-level accessible repository for pedigree value chain master data.
• Product Security-Authentication - PS-Authentication provides network-wide reach into serialized product location and EPC status through a secure EPC repository. PS-Authentication delivers granular visibility into product movement at both case and item-level identification for products tagged with either barcodes or RFID sensors.

Working in concert, the capabilities of Product Security provide product security and business value without requiring significant infrastructure investments in RFID tags, scanning equipment, and large on-premise technology stacks.

Key Benefits

Companies across the pharmaceutical value chain can leverage the visibility and control elements of SupplyScape's solutions to gain a variety of benefits:

• Anti-Counterfeiting: Detect existing instances and deter future occurrences of product counterfeiting before they affect the patient population.
• Diversion Detection: Detect, investigate, and prevent product diversion. Control products from moving inappropriately both across geographical boundaries and among commercial trade channels.
• Shelf-life and Expiry Management: Gain complete visibility to product shelf-life across current inventory, optimizing distribution strategies to maximize product sales before expiration.
• Product Availability: Reduce out-of-stocks through greater inventory visibility and synchronization between channel supply and customer demand.
• Financial Reimbursement: Precisely and efficiently submit and reimburse financial claims (chargebacks, returns, rebates, etc.) using exact knowledge of product identification and channel movement.
• Advance Shipment Notification: Provide trading partners with visibility into upcoming product shipments, optimizing resource allocations, reducing receiving error rates, and enhancing shipment verification.
• Recall Management: Identify recalled products, profile distribution channel locations, notify trading partners of recalled products in their inventory, and track progress towards recall closure.
• Returns Management: Improve returns planning, shrink morgue size, and drive greater efficiency in returns execution.