FSMA 204 is the law.

For more than 20 years, ReposiTrak has been solving supply chain collaboration challenges that involve tracking products from manufacturer and grower, through warehouses and distribution centers, all the way to the retail store.

 We are the traceability people.

Through the thought leadership of leading industry organizations and retailers, we’ve created a solution that is:

• Easy to implement
• Meets and exceeds the FDA’s FSMA 204 guidelines
• The lowest cost with little impact to consumer pricing

The days of “one-up, one-back” traceability are over. Farm-to-table supply chain visibility is the new standard. Grocery retailers, wholesalers and suppliers will soon be responsible for millions of pieces of data–every day.

How and when you choose to take control of that data can either create a major obstacle…or a major traceability and sustainability win. Implementing full-scale traceability now is not only easy; it’s also an opportunity that forward-thinking businesses can’t ignore.

With the data you already capture and with little to no additional work, you can:

• Gain unmatched visibility into a safer food supply chain
• Tighten control on food waste
• Implement a food recall response that saves lives and money…

All while fully complying with FSMA 204 mandates.

• World’s largest Scan-based Trading (SBT) network
• The only central platform where millions of data points are exchanged daily
• More than 67,000 registered users
• 55 million store/SKU perpetual inventory items managed
• 9 million store/SKU daily forecasts and orders
• SOC1 and SOC2 certified. Banking-industry-level security.

While the Food Traceability List (FTL) categories contain thousands of products, representing a wide array of potential sources of recalls, many common sources of recalls are NOT included. That means that even when you’re covered from a requirements standpoint, your operations are still vulnerable to food safety issues from a number of angles.

The good news is that once in place, the ReposiTrak Traceability Network can be scaled up effortlessly. You can just as easily apply the same data capturing practices to ALL categories. Therefore, protecting your company, and consumers, to the greatest extent possible.

Add to that the FDAs strong indications of eventual expansion of FTL categories and it’s in your best interest – as well as everyone else’s – to do more.

The Challenge:

For thousands of Food Traceability List products, with every shipment, you will receive a set of unique KDEs, including lot code data. You will then have to create your own receiving KDEs by extracting data from whatever format or documents your suppliers send it in and link it with your receiving data.

In other words, you will need to sort through a massive, never-ending stream of supplier data and documents to extract the data you need. In some cases, suppliers could include lot code data on an electronic BOL; and for others, it could come in a cv file. After the data is extracted, it must be linked by lot code to your own receiving data, only then have you created the required KDEs for compliance with FSMA 204.

Lastly, all data and documents need to be organized and stored in a sortable spreadsheet to have ready for the FDA within 24 hours.

The Solution:

We will collect the shipping records from your suppliers, extract the required KDEs and maintain the data. We’ll create your newly required KDE receiving records by combining your existing receiving documents and the KDEs collected from each supplier shipment.

The Challenge:

For every Food Traceability List item and every shipment to every customer distribution center, you will have to create and forward a new shipping KDE record.

You could put your shipping KDE record on a BOL, ASN, etc. but where in the document do you put it? What if Customer A wants it in one place and Customer B in another? Once you ship an item, your customers may be able to receive your BOL or ASN, but will they have a method of extracting the KDE? Will they have an employee manually looking for the KDE? Could their system automatically find the KDE in the BOL or ASN?

With hundreds or thousands of suppliers shipping items daily, your retail and wholesale customers can’t accept data in just any format. They will have to mandate uniformity of some sort to be able to comply with FSMA 204. What will you do if each customer wants data formatted and sent in a different way?

The Solution:
 
The ReposiTrak Traceability Network will take KDEs from existing documents and forward it to your customers the way they want it, automatically. Manually entered or via secure data transfers, we make it simple and extraordinarily affordable to comply with requirements and keep your customers happy.

Major retailers and wholesalers have made public commitments to food traceability. Some have expanded their requirements beyond the FDA’s, asking for more data for more types of food on a faster timeline. If your customer requires traceability, then you – the supplier – are required to DO traceability now.

ReposiTrak can help with traceability for ALL of your customers, whether or not they’re connected to the ReposiTrak Traceability Network. Here is more information about traceability programs from major retailers and wholesalers across the country.

Getting traceability-ready through the ReposiTrak Traceability Network is fast, easy and inexpensive. Thousands of suppliers, retailers and wholesalers are already in the process of connecting to the ReposiTrak Traceability Network to share any and all traceability data and meet the unique requirements of their trading partners.