TRACEABILITY #1

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NEWSLETTER?#13?:?TRACEABILITY #1

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How do digital tools accelerate traceability ?

In an age of transformation to responsible fashion and transparent communication, traceability represents an essential pillar for virtuous metamorphoses. It enables users to identify, audit, collect information, and trace operations and suppliers to obtain a clear overview of the situation — a crucial foundation for achieving continuous improvement and adopting corrective action plans.

Self-evident though it may sound, implementation is an entirely different story. The legacy of a value chain that has become fractured across the globe in the past 30 years, as well as siloed systems to ensure data confidentiality, traceability thus represents a systemic challenge for our industry.

The hurdles of data collection

Across the board - from SMBs to luxury and mass market powerhouses - businesses are confronted with the extremely time-consuming activity of data collection. The level of complexity for products containing multiple components and involving numerous stages of transformation can be daunting.

In very rare cases, retracing the value chain, from manufacturing back to raw material, can be done without running into any obstacles.

Suppliers need to create structure while also making time to meet multiple requests. These demands are still quite new and certain upstream players are overwhelmed by the various requirements linked to different brands’ respective specifications, or to particularly intense regulatory pressure in Europe and the United States.

Information security, the challenge of authentic data

Certificates designed to reassure was a system that worked until fakes started surfacing. Due to price pressure, yield trends, and chemical substances used in excess, some chose instead to counterfeit those precious paper certificates, which inevitably led to the need to be able to verify and guarantee the veracity of documents issued.

What tools are now available to make these situations more fluid?

A review of digital solutions to enter the age of transformation, from online services to blockchain.

Read and discover more about digital tools which accelerate traceability?here !

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