Why TraceLink

Today’s Supply Chain Challenges Exist Across the Supply Network

Globalization and the quest for cost reduction has brought incredible efficiency and cost savings to supply chains. But they have also increased risk and made supply chains more brittle.

Traceability: e.g. Anti-counterfeiting and diversion
Transparency: e.g. Product availability and recalls
Sustainability: e.g. Digital leaflets
Collaboration: e.g. Supplier management
Visibility: e.g. Material shortages and shipment delays

Meet Today’s Challenges with the Internet of Supply Chains

The Internet of Supply Chains (IoSC) connects people, processes, systems and enterprises into a collective information network that responds to patient demand. Adapts to fluctuations in supply. And enables network members - collectively - to act more intelligently than any person, group or computer has ever done before.

The TraceLink Opus Platform powers the IoSC and delivers the capabilities required for supply chain digital transformation.

Create dynamic and secure digital networks to share information with partners
Share processes across newly digitalized business networks with shared (multienterprise) applications
Drive cross-functional and cross-company execution with shared but customized solutions that meet the workflow and data needs of each company and its partners
Leverage a common data model that can take master data from existing enterprise systems and auto-translate the data into a common language for use by partners and shared applications
Generate collective intelligence from the data generated across the network of networks thanks to shared processes/applications and a common data model

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Full transparency and traceability to reduce risk.

Real-time adaptability to changing market dynamics.

Faster response to capture real-time market demand.

TraceLink's Opus: The Platform for the Internet of Supply Chains™

Opus is a low-/no-code development platform and partner ecosystem for constructing digital networks for Industry 4.0 deployments. It provides capabilities at each of five distinct layers that are required to build, manage, and grow interoperable digital networks with and among supply chain partners.

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Network-interoperable, company-specific solutions

Customization via No-Code Solution Designer

Design experiences, workflows, and objects
Define roles and permissions
Access a marketplace of third-party solutions and partners

Digital networks of critical business processes

Low-Code Multienterprise Apps

Linking processes across companies
Shared networks across the industry
Multienterprise team collaboration

Industry-wide predictive analytics

Collective Intelligence

Metadata for all business objects across the network
Data mesh pipelines with machine learning

Interoperable business transaction network

Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone™

APIs, plug-ins and B2B information exchange
Canonicalized message mapping

Single source of truth for network master data

Network Creation & Management

Network company onboarding, management, administration and routing
User authentication, management and administration

TraceLink Powers Pharmaceutical Track & Trace - A Global Industry 4.0 Success Story

As early as 2010, the TraceLink team realized that governmental track and trace regulations would necessitate the creation of a digital network platform to enable network members to create and manage serialized identities for saleable product across the supply chain as well as exchange serialized data and traceability information with direct and indirect trade partners.

TraceLink created the largest digital network platform in the industry powering the most successful Industry 4.0 implementation to date.

1,300 customers and 285,000 authenticated and onboarded network members
816 million regulatory documents processed and exchanged
30+ billion serial numbers commissioned to date
13,925 live serialization connections
7,035 live CMO connections
$4.6 billion in customer savings by avoiding point-to-point integrations

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Your Platform Ecosystem for Supply Chain Transformation

No company can hope to address the problem of escalating demand and supply variability in isolation. The Opus platform fills the gap between silo’d enterprise systems, teams, and data and enables collaboration and orchestration between your extended network of customers and suppliers.

The Opus platform enables manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, 3PLs, retailers / health systems, and independent software developers to quickly design, build and customize multienterprise applications with little or no coding. Putting the power of innovation in the hands of supply chain practitioners, coupled with a growing ecosystem of third party supply chain apps on the platform, will unleash transformative end-to-end supply chain digitalization.

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Leverage the Collective Intelligence of a Network of Networks

Network members - collectively - act more intelligently than any person, group or computer has ever done before. Transform decision making with intelligence gathered from a network of networks.

Eliminate shortages
Prevent disruptions
Link supply plans with real-time consumption insights
Improve product launch performance
Reduce inventory
Maximize profitability

Supply Chain Work Management: Your First Step in The Journey to Industry 4.0 Transformation

Maintain agility in the face of demand fluctuations and unpredictable supply. Agile Process Teams, a multi-enterprise application built on TraceLink’s low-code/no-code Opus™ digital network development platform, allows any company in the supply chain to build collaborative networks across their trading partners to enhance the performance of their integrated supply planning and execution processes through better management of supply chain issues and planning exceptions like material shortages, short shipments, and forecast changes.

TraceLink offers a complete Supply Chain Work Management solution within the APT application. With Issue Management, Task Management, Change Requests, Document Review, Quality Document Review, and Batch Record Review capabilities, Supply Chain Work Management gives operational leaders a platform to monitor and improve the quality of the supply plan to ensure that they achieve the highest customer delivery levels at the lowest cost.

Improve Fill rates and OTIF Service Delivery Levels

Respond faster to planning exceptions through integrations with leading planning systems and a more efficient process powered by workflow driven notifications, reminders, due dates, and alerts. Use performance data to reduce recurring issues with continuous process improvement.

Reduce COGs

Improve Supply Chain Performance

TraceLink: A Heritage of Solving Traceability and Compliance Challenges

track and trace

Since 2009, TraceLink has been the industry leader in delivering track- and -trace solution to meet regulatory requirements in more than 30 countries for the global pharmaceutical industry. With more than 287,000 trading partners on our digital supply network, TraceLink lets companies Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone™ for seamless data exchange and fast trade partner onboarding.

Today, TraceLink’s Opus Platform harnesses the data created by multienterprise applications to address challenges in regulatory compliance, recalls, and product shortages. Powered by the Opus Platform, Product Availability Intelligence applies machine learning to the movement of more than 30 billion serialized medicines across the TraceLink network to predict shortages 90 days in advance with greater than 80% accuracy.

TraceLink can help you comply with new and evolving regulations around the world—and we continuously monitor worldwide regulatory requirements to be sure your compliance solutions stay up to date.

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