Solutions
TraceLink's flexible and customizeable solutions help you, your teams, and your supply chain partners meet critical supply network challenges.
SOLUTIONS FOR THE INTERNET OF SUPPLY CHAINS
TraceLink creates a broad range of solutions that enable companies and their supply network partners to master the supply chain challenges of today and the future. Leveraging the Opus platform that connects systems, processes, people, and enterprises into the Internet of Supply Chains. TraceLink solutions help companies meet uncertain and fluctuating global demand, manage global supply disruptions, prepare for regulatory compliance and traceability mandates, and more.
What is a TraceLink Solution?
TraceLink solutions are purpose-built, highly customizable and extensible capabilities used by supply chain networks, and the companies and people collaborating across them, to meet unique business needs and solve critical supply chain challenges. A TraceLink solution goes beyond a traditional application. It is specifically designed and architected to meet today's diverse, continually evolving global supply chain of shared information, shared processes, and complex network ecosystems.
- Supports Faster and Better Decision Making by collecting the right data in the right format across a company's partner ecosystem
- Enhances Workflows to Streamline Multienterprise Processes by modeling actual stages and transitions of shared process on a per-process network basis
- Promotes Internal and Partner Engagement by delivering customized yet simple, intuitive, and unified user experiences to everyone within the same solution
- Ensures Security and Compliance across the digital partner ecosystem, without increasing IT budget, by controlling and managing user access to processes, data, and APIs
- Enables Rapid Scaling and Easy Management across partners and networks, without additional IT backlog, by facilitating the ability of the teams themselves to manage, update, validate, distribute, and deploy solutions
To achieve this revolution in developing and deploying critical capabilities at speed to internal users and external partners. TraceLink solutions are modular building blocks giving access to and the ability to customize underlying application features:
- Core Business Objects
- User Experience
- Data Model
- Workflows
- Roles and Policies
- API
- Network
This modular approach enables companies to immediately deploy the existing solution, or take the solution and customize, extend, and distribute it to meet unique needs via the TraceLink Solution Designer.
SUPPLY CHAIN WORK MANAGEMENT
TraceLink’s Supply Chain Work Management solution is a revolutionary new way to execute supply chain management processes by digitalizing work across multiple levels of supply chain partners. By enabling the definition of cross-functional and cross-company tasks, Supply Chain Work Management supports an unlimited number of multienterprise supply chain management processes. Supply Chain Work Management is built and hosted on TraceLink's Opus, the Platform for the Internet of Supply Chains (IoSC). Opus links systems, processes, people, and enterprises into a collective information network for intelligent business execution. Powered by Opus, Supply Chain Work Management enables companies to create digital networks with partners to exchange business process information through secure, configurable links, and can connect to enterprise systems to accelerate cross-company sharing of supply chain data and collaboration.
The supply chain digitalization challenge
Supply chain digitalization projects are slow and costly as they are limited to point-to-point exchanges of enterprise systems data with little or no capability to connect people or processes. Further limiting digitalization, these costly data exchange projects can only be done with a few partners making the promise of end-to-end supply chain digital transformation impossible. Key challenges include:
- No digital connectivity – Cross-company supply chain processes are executed through email and phone calls.
- Poor visibility – with no digital connectivity, supply chain leaders lack comprehensive visibility and status of supply chain processes.
- Failure to get the right people involved – Lack of clear accountability leads to confusion over roles, responsibilities, and delays completion.
- Unstructured collaboration and decentralized information - Cross-functional and cross-company teams typically depend heavily on decentralized and unstructured communication limiting collaboration and making it difficult to complete tasks on-time.
- No innovation – Digital transformation requires the creation of new processes that improve product and component traceability, supply chain transparency, improve sustainability, and social responsibility while creating supply chains that are more agile and resilient to global demand fluctuations and disruptions. This is not possible with current enterprise systems.
Innovative Opus digitalization capabilities
- Dashboards provide managers, employees, and partners with the capabilities to monitor processes by status, due date, priority, location, and trading partners.
- Task Management connects people, processes, and systems to digitalize current processes and create innovative new supply chain processes across the SCOR Model.
- Enables the digitalization, management, and tracking of an unlimited number of multienterprise processes that require collaboration across multiple supply chain partners.
- Supports multienterprise collaboration for capturing, analyzing, resolving, correcting, and preventing planning exceptions and supply chain issues.
- Instant notifications to supply chain partners as new tasks and issues are created lead to faster project completion and issue resolution times.
- Enables trading partners to initiate online change requests to assign, evaluate, and track change requests through closure.
- Supports multienterprise work management process to collaboratively review and approve documents with supply chain partners.
The value from Opus powered digital transformation
- Innovative new supply chain processes to achieve competitive advantage from digital transformation
- Cross-company process, issue, and exception resolution times reduced by as much as 65%.
- Number of open issues and exceptions reduced by as much as 35%.
- Continuous improvement supported by structured cross-company processes and resolution history analysis reduces manufacturing disruptions by 97%.
- Improve order fill rates, manufacturing throughput, and inventory turnover while reducing order cycle times and cash-to-cash cycle times
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
From core compliance solutions to staff training and software validation, TraceLink gives companies a foundation of proven regulatory compliance solutions that can be configured based on each country’s unique regulations, specifications, processes, and workflows—reducing the time and cost of compliance and giving companies greater control and visibility across diverse markets.
The global compliance challenge
Track and trace regulations vary widely across the world’s regions, countries, and markets. Reporting product movement to a centralized system, decommissioning at the point of dispense, cryptography, and suspect product verification are just some of the requirements that companies encounter as each new country is added. Multinational companies must have the foundation—and the flexibility—to meet a continual cycle of new and changing regulatory and business requirements, including:
- New and evolving regulations, guidelines, and technical standards
- Updates to serialization or compliance software, functionality, and workflows
- New partner onboarding, integration, and testing
- A changing business landscape, including mergers and acquisitions
TraceLink's Opus Compliance Platform
- Delivers flexible workflows, business rules, and data configuration capabilities needed to support complex operational and supply chain requirements for different customer networks
- Configures and generates compliance reports as required for commissioning of products and logistical units (SSCCs), packing, and product shipment while managing all applicable master and transactional data identified in the reports and supporting unique event reporting rules
- Enables submission of configured compliance reports to government reporting systems, supporting GS1 data exchange standards, and supporting technical requirements concerning events, file size limits, and other data management rules
- Enables automated report generation/submission from event workflows for packaging and distribution operations configured in Serialized Operations Manager or manual submission of appropriate reports as needed
- Provides archival of compliance report events with full audit trail capabilities
Enables flexible UI for search and viewing of current and historical compliance reports and their data exchanges
The value of a global compliance partner
- With more than 280,000 members and 3,500 manufacturing and distribution partners, TraceLink has built the world’s largest digital supply network, letting you Connect Once, Interoperate with Everyone™ through a single connection.
- TraceLink supports a centralized multinational compliance strategy or a distributed model that empowers local affiliates and distributors through secure access to TraceLink’s Opus Compliance Platform.
- TraceLink supports multinational compliance planning, deployment, and metrics at the enterprise level through a growing suite of network applications, community forums, expert training materials, and automated validation tools.
- Because TraceLink provides its applications through a SaaS-based network-tenant architecture, software upgrades and releases are deployed automatically, without the need for complex integrations or IT support.
Comply with DSCSA 2023 requirements for pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare systems.
Advanced compliance data management and reporting solution for Uzbekistan track and trace compliance.
Advanced compliance data management and reporting solution for UAE compliance.
SERIALIZATION & TRACEABILITY
TraceLink’s Opus Platform and Opus Digital Network give companies a foundation of proven serialization and traceability solutions that can be configured or modified based on each market’s unique regulations, specifications, processes, and workflows—reducing the time and cost of serialization and giving companies greater control and visibility across diverse markets.
The global compliance challenge
Although most countries follow GS1 serialization standards, markets often introduce variations to the information contained in the unique product identifier and how multi-level product packaging is aggregated and identified. As new markets and partners are added, companies must have the foundation—and the flexibility—to meet a continual cycle of changing regulatory and business requirements, including:
- New and evolving regulations, guidelines, and technical standards
- Updates to serialization or compliance software, functionality, and workflows
- New partner onboarding, integration, and testing
- A changing business landscape, including mergers and acquisitions
TraceLink's Opus Platform
- Provides a single deployment platform for the growing suite of TraceLink serialization and traceability solutions, including Serial Number Manager, Serial Number Exchange, Serialized Operations Manager, Serialized Traceability, and Serialized Product Intelligence.
- Designed specifically for managing big data sets and high-volume transactions, TraceLink’s multi-tenant architecture processes millions of serialized units in seconds—preventing costly delays to supply chain and warehouse processes.
- A highly configurable workflow engine detects combinations of product type, target market, business process, and business events and incorporates complex business logic to ensure the right information is delivered to the right party at the right time, no matter what the market requirements might be.
The value of a global compliance partner
- With more than 280,000 members and 3,500 manufacturing and distribution partners, TraceLink has built the world’s largest digital supply network, letting you Connect Once, Interoperate with Everyone™ through a single connection.
- By partnering with TraceLink, you can empower your network of local affiliates, CMOs, CPOs, and line management system providers through secure access to TraceLink’s Opus platform.
- TraceLink’s Opus platform provides a “single source of truth” that supports strategic planning, deployment, and metrics at the enterprise level through TraceLink’s growing suite of network applications, expert training materials, and automated validation tools.
- Because TraceLink provides its applications through a SaaS-based network-tenant architecture, software upgrades and releases are deployed automatically, without the need for complex integrations or IT support.
DSCSA compliance for pharmaceutical companies, repackagers, wholesalers distributors, pharmacies and healthcare organizations.
Publish, retrieve, and share product master data across supply networks to meet use cases for verifying serialized product information.
Real-time insights to lot-level events through proactive monitoring of serialized production, operational events and compliance reporting events.
OPUS PLATFORM
Opus is a low-/no-code global development platform and partner ecosystem for constructing advanced digital networks to support Industry 4.0 deployments across the global supply chain.
The global supply chain dilemma
Today’s global supply chains are at the center of the global economy. The performance of your company is based on your ability to master numerous new supply chain challenges and opportunities including:
- Opening new markets with evolving regulations
- Meeting emerging, uncertain consumer demand
- Diversifying and managing supplier ecosystems
- Building critical agility into supply planning and operational execution
In essence, the supply chain is in reality an interconnected global supply network full of risks, interdependencies, and uncertainties.
No one company by themselves can meet the opportunity of escalating yet uncertain demand and the problem of diverse and variable supply. The Opus platform breaks down traditional barriers and links together isolated enterprise systems, decentralized teams, and disconnected data streams. With the Opus platform, you can orchestrate critical supply collaboration between you and your extended network of suppliers and trading partners.
Opus is Your Supply Chain Transformation Platform
Opus provides capabilities at each of five distinct layers that are required to build, manage, and grow digital networks with and among supply chain partners.
- Solutions. Customize applications with studios to create unique user experiences, workflows, data objects, roles, permissions, and more to develop and deploy company-specific solutions while maintaining network interoperability with partners using those shared applications.
- Applications. Leverage a diverse suite of existing multienterprise applications, or develop new applications in our development environment, to link supply chain partners, shared business processes, and cross-functional/cross-company teams together into a digital network to drive your business and operational excellence.
- Information. Utilize data mesh pipelines, and metadata applied to all business objects on the network flowing through those pipelines, to enable out-of-the-box machine learning that feeds industry-wide predictive analytics and collective intelligence.
- Integration. Deploy APIs, plug-ins, B2B data exchange, and other information sharing protocols through canonicalized messaging, creating an “Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone” business transaction network foundation that meets today's requirements and can scale as your company grows.
- Network. Orchestrate and manage interoperable networks of authenticated companies, users, products, and partners based upon a single source of truth for critical network master data (company, partner, product).
Your global supply network powered by Opus
Opus powers the transformation of your supply chain operations and performance.
- Create dynamic and secure digital networks to share information with internal locations and external partners.
- Share business processes across newly digitalized business networks, connecting shared (multienterprise) applications and teams to form secure, flexible process networks.
- Enable and enhance cross-functional and cross-company execution through shared, customizable solutions to meet critical business requirements and support the workflow and data needs of each company and its partners.
- Mobiize data and knowledge between you and partners, and across shared applications, through the Opus harmonized data model that takes master data from existing. enterprise systems and auto-translates the data into a shared language for operations
- Generate collective intelligence and new business insights by tapping into the data generated from the network of networks created by the Opus platform
A low-code/no-code development solution that enables business users to customize multienterprise solutions, accelerating Industry 4.0 digitalization.
A low-code development environment to create multienterprise and enterprise applications, add-ons, and enterprise system integrations on Opus.
Allows users on the Opus Platform to access and manage messages, notifications, and other important user events and communications.