Description

TraceLink’s Serialized Operations Manager (SOM) application is designed to help companies create a system of record and repository for serialized operations and events, helping manage serialized inventory and end-to-end serialized operational workflows across finished goods packaging warehouses, distribution sites, and logistics operations by integrating with receiving / shipping, status change, pack / repack, and other operational activities.

Benefits

Serialized Operations Manager helps companies build and maintain a operational repository for serialized inventory information and events across its plant and warehouse operations to support the full lifecycle of serialized inventory management  

• Create automated, efficient workflows and choreographies to link serialized product operations to your existing product packaging, distribution and supply chain operations
  • CMO packaged product shipment
  • Batch release processes
  • Commissioning / aggregation
  • Warehouse and distribution site operations
  • Rework, specialty processes, and exception management
• Gain critical visibility into serialized product inventory and the status of serialized products moving through operations
• Increase accuracy of your serialization information and serialized product packaging containment hierarchies as products move from packaging through distribution and logistics operations
• Enable an accurate, real-time view into serialized product inventory to facilitate supply chain operations and analytics

Capabilities and Features

Serialized Operations Manager has a broad range of data management and operational capabilities to support a company and its supply network’s serialized product operations 

• Manage serialized inventory operations across your plant and warehouse operations, including CMO and 3PL partners
  • Warehouse operations (receiving, pick/pack/ship)
  • Commission in plant or warehouse
  • Aggregation changes
  • Serialized inventory status updates 
  • Rework, relabeling, sampling, destruction
• Configure your operational reporting dashboard with lot summary, commissioned serial number, uncommissioned serial number, and other detailed reports
• Configure business rules and workflows to match your operational processes and define key touch points (receiving, shipping, quality sampling, inventory adjustments, etc.) between the serialized operations system and other distribution systems
• Define and update serial number status, warehouse states, and other item attributes to provide needed visibility and granularity of information about serialized products in inventory
• Define operational triggers and asynchronous workflows to activate business or compliance systems to exchange serialization data with supply/trade partners, submit compliance reports to government systems, and more  
• Supports location configuration to enable site-specific systems, user administration, and business rules
• Integrate with ERP, WMS, and other distribution systems through standardized APIs providing both synchronous and asynchronous interfaces to meet unique data exchange requirements
• Leverage integrated interfaces to to other TraceLink serialization applications, or develop an enterprise-wide operational repository across hybrid infrastructures with integrations to third party EPCIS repositories
• Integrate mobility and edge devices with our standardized API to make serialized operations a cohesive part of your physical product operational processes
• Leverage simplified UI to manage special cases, low-volume activities and for exception management 
  • Update serial number status, serialized container and aggregation changes, etc.
• Run inquiries and view operational reporting information on event history, lot status, serial number activities, serialization hierarchies, and more