Traceability - Seamless product data tracing

Traceability software helps your company prove when, where and how your products were manufactured or installed. This is how you ensure product liability and compliance with standards.

When you implement traceability software in your company, you ensure complete traceability and can put customer satisfaction at the center of all quality efforts. As a result, you increase added value and production speed, understand all processes, and reduce costs.

The software facilitates documentation and compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards such as ISO 9001, VDA 6.2, IEC, ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE and EN50128. This is particularly important in industries with strict regulatory requirements, such as the food industry, where EU Regulation 178/2002 plays a key role – with our software, you ensure that this regulation is complied with and that the safety and wholesomeness of foodstuffs meet the high standards.

With traceability software, you monitor the origin and history of your products and document them. Among other things, the software performs the following tasks for you:

Data capture: the software captures and stores comprehensive information about products, including origin, batch numbers, production date, supplier information and quality characteristics.

Traceability: It enables seamless tracing of a product along the entire value chain, starting with the raw materials and ending with the end customer. This also includes the tracking of intermediate products and assemblies.

Real-time monitoring: The software continuously monitors the status and location of products in real time. This enables an immediate response to deviations or quality problems.

Batch management: It supports the management of product batches and enables the rapid identification and isolation of defective batches to minimize recalls.

Documentation: The software automatically creates records and documentation required for compliance with regulations and standards. This includes the creation of audit trail logs.

Notifications and alerts: In the event of quality issues or deviations from established standards, the software can immediately send notifications and alerts to relevant individuals or teams.

Analysis and reporting: it provides analytical tools and allows reports to be generated to identify trends, bottlenecks and optimization opportunities in the supply chain.Compliance management: It supports compliance with regulations and standards by providing checklists, workflows and automated audits.

Customer communication: It facilitates communication with customers and enables companies to efficiently respond to customer inquiries about product origin, quality, or traceability.

Integration with other systems: The software can be integrated with other enterprise systems such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or SCM (Supply Chain Management) to seamlessly share data and optimize business processes.

Security and data protection: It ensures data protection-compliant storage and protection of sensitive product data from unauthorized access.

Lack of transparency: Without such software, it is difficult to ensure a transparent view of the supply chain and the origin of products. This can affect customer confidence, as they cannot be sure where products come from or how they were made.

Slower response to quality issues: The lack of real-time monitoring and traceability makes it difficult to quickly identify and isolate quality issues. This can lead to longer recalls, which are less targeted with software, and higher costs.

Compliance risks: Companies can struggle to comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards because documentation and tracking can be manual and inaccurate. This can lead to legal risks and penalties.

Inefficient operations: without automation and a clear view of the value chain, operations can be inefficient. This can lead to higher costs, longer delivery times and reduced competitiveness.

Poor crisis management: In cases of crisis or emergency, such as product recalls or safety issues, the lack of effective product data tracking software can significantly impact the company’s response time and capability.

Difficulty identifying bottlenecks and areas for optimization: Without the ability to analyze data and generate reports, companies may have difficulty identifying bottlenecks or areas for improvement in their supply chain.

Manual errors: manual data collection and management is prone to human error, which can lead to incorrect information and delays.

Lack of competitiveness: In a global business environment where customers and partners expect high visibility and efficiency in the supply chain, the lack of traceability software can cause companies to lose out and become less competitive.

The traceability software integrates your product and process data and provides targeted support for your business decisions. In addition, your employees can easily access the software and flexibly design analyses. The integrated action management reduces errors, rework and warranty cases and promotes “first time quality”. Likewise, traceability results and measured values are available to you simultaneously in the traceability software.