Next-generation logistics: Secure track and trace

Companies can control product quality and security within their own four walls, but the product becomes much more vulnerable as it moves through the supply chain to the consumer. As requirements and regulations are adjusted to provide constant monitoring and security controls, so are handling processes in the supply chain to provide secure track and trace. In this white paper, Kezzler AS discusses how logistical and manufacturing systems must merge and evolve with tracking technologies to make the supply chain truly secure.

Three major capabilities are crucial in shaping a secured supply chain and handling goods. These include unequivocal identification of single items and sellling units, tracking of these items and SKUs in hierarchies throughout the supply chain, and real-time supply chain policies based on this identification and tracking. While a traditional logistical chain has the horizontal focus of moving goods from one point to another, the secured supply chain adds vertical, hierarchical tracking that follows and retains the history of transportation units even as they are split into increasingly smaller units and sent to a variety of locations.

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