Track & Trace

Why is Track & Trace Becoming Increasingly Important for Businesses?

Product piracy is an increasing problem for businesses in the broadest range of industries

A growing number of companies are forced to confront piracy with measures such as serialisation and Tracking & Tracing.

However, SAP Track & Trace offers businesses far more than this. The decision to serialise and track products on item level opens up a whole new range of options and can provide real value added for the business. For example, the transparency that is gained as a result can facilitate better control of recalls, loss reduction and the optimisation of marketing and sales strategies.

What does Track & Trace Mean?

  • Tracking denotes the localisation of a certain object at a defined point in time
  • Tracing gradually reveals what has happened to the raw materials, semi-finished goods and end products on their passage through the chain

How do Things Stand?

Under existing legislation, many pharmaceutical companies are already obliged to serialise their products on item level for certain markets and to pass on the complete tracking data e.g. to authorities. Consequently, businesses from the pharmaceutical sector can be credited with a clear, leading role.

Nonetheless, even without statutory provisions, more and more companies are recognising the value added that can be found in Tracking & Tracing. As such, the high level of investment initially implied by the introduction of complete tracking is rewarded with huge potential for improvements, which can be achieved with Tracking & Tracing.

Producers of luxury and high-tech products in particular as well as manufacturers of licensed software are increasingly opting for Tracking & Tracing. It must be assumed that other industries will recognise value added in Tracking & Tracing in the near future or the authorities will derive benefits for consumers. The consumer goods industry in particular must expect this. Current media reports of contaminated foodstuffs re-emphasise the significance of the topic and the need for action.

Ultimately, all businesses have one thing in common: they will all soon have to deal with Tracking & Tracing and adapt their IT systems, production and packaging lines and business processes accordingly.

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Why SAP Track & Trace?

SAP, known as the world’s largest supplier of standard software, identified this problem at a very early stage and started developing a software solution for this very problem over 10 years ago. All well-known companies that have dealt with Track & Trace enough rely on these SAP products. No other solution is currently able to manage the huge quantities of data arising from serialisation at item level and complete tracking along the entire supply chain. The early start of development and the early confidence of leading companies that rely on this solution have given SAP an unattainable edge in terms of maturity level, stability and the standard range of Track & Trace functions of this solution.

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