THE REPOSITRAK TRACEABILITY NETWORK®

Traceability for Everyone.

Major retailers and wholesalers have made public commitments to food traceability. Now, they’re forcing YOU, as the supplier – to share traceability data with them, according to their unique requirements. It’s up to you to find a way to do traceability – fast – in a way that’s also cheap and easy to minimize the impact on your operations and your costs.

ReposiTrak helps suppliers meet the requirements of EVERY traceability program for EVERY customer, without the need for labels or specific data formatting. We’ll take the traceability information you have – as you have it – and then organize and share it according to the requirements of your customer(s).

For just $49 per facility, per month, you can share traceability data for EVERY SKU you ship to a single customer.

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No two traceability programs are alike.

Your customers are demanding traceability. And each of their demands is different.

As a supplier, you need a traceability solution that helps you meet EVERY type of traceability requirement, including:

With the help of leading industry organizations, retailers and wholesalers, we’ve developed the ReposiTrak Traceability Network®, 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

We are the traceability people.

ReposiTrak can help suppliers to meet the traceability requirements of ANY customer. 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.

Traceability is just the beginning.

With food safety and supply chain transparency are at the core of food traceability, many extended benefits are made possible by access to the data.

Through ReposiTrak, suppliers, retailers and wholesalers can utilize traceability data for:

  • Faster, more efficient recalls
  • Better manage food waste and shrink through expiration dates
  • All but eliminating the need for invoice reconciliation

Pricing

For $49 per facility, per month, you can share traceability data for EVERY SKU you ship to a single customer.

Low-cost traceability is here. Learn about per facility, per month pricing and unlimited use options.

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Prepare to connect

It takes time to gather the information needed for traceability.

This includes contact information, addresses and identifiers for your facilities and your customers’ facilities, information about your shipping data and more.

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Templates for your data

Traceability files need to be sent to ReposiTrak every time a shipment is sent to your customer.

We’ve created simple templates for you to use to build your files.

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What is traceability?

Traceability is the process of using data to permanently document a product’s path through the supply chain from its point of origin, through every stage of production and distribution, ultimately to the place where it’s sold to the end consumer.

The FDA coined the term “Key Data Element” (KDE) to refer to the specific pieces of data required to create a complete traceability record.

An example of traceability data or KDEs required by retailers today include:

  • The Traceability Lot Code (TLC) for the food
  • The product description
  • The location description for the immediate previous source
  • The date received

Traceability is important NOW for several reasons:

  1. Your customers require traceability. Many of the nation’s largest retailer and wholesalers are requiring it. In fact, some retailers and wholesalers – including Walmart, Kroger and others – require MORE traceability data than the FDA. If your customer requires traceability, then YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TRACEABILITY.
  2. The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act Section 204d (also known as “FSMA 204”) is now the law. Those who “manufacture, process, pack, or hold foods included on the Food Traceability List (FTL)” to do more traceability recordkeeping than ever before.
  3. Labels alone are not enough. Some but not all of the required traceability data can be contained on a label. Why? Because some information (like the date the product was received or the quantity received) simply cannot be known at the time the label is printed. Instead, the remaining data needs to be transmitted electronically for every shipment, every time.
  4. Traceability takes time, and the requirements most likely differ between your customers. It will take time to establish the requirements for each of your customers and set up data transmission for each of them according to their standards and formatting needs. In addition, you’ll need a way to identify and resolve errors in the data as it occurs.

If your customer requires traceability, you – the supplier – are required to DO traceability now. Failing to comply (or simply under-complying) with the traceability requirements of your current customers could jeopardize the relationship you’ve built with them. Additionally, you could be hurting your chances of building new relationships with other major retailers or wholesalers – like Target or Sysco – that you’d hoped to have in the future.

Getting traceability-ready NOW 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.   

If you’d like to talk to an expert at ReposiTrak about traceability for your company, please click here to fill out the form.

Who’s required to do traceability?

It depends.

To prepare for a future of end-to-end traceability, and to protect against legal threats from noncompliance or insufficient compliance, some major retailers, restaurants and wholesalers – including Kroger and Walmart – have made the decision to trace ALL FOODS.

Still others have made the decision to follow the FDA’s FSMA 204 food traceability rule precisely, and only require traceability from suppliers of foods on the FDA’s Food Traceability List (FTL).

In any case, if your customer has asked you to do traceability recordkeeping, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO TRACEABILITY RECORDKEEPING.

If you’re like most suppliers, you might be wondering what you need to do to meet the requirements of your customers, and (when applicable) to meet the requirements of the FDA. ReposiTrak can help.

How does the ReposiTrak Traceability Network® work?

The ReposiTrak Traceability Network uses automation to collect, organize and store traceability data or “KDEs” into complete records to meet the requirement of your customer. Those records create permanent documentation about how and when a product changes hands of changes form through the supply chain.

Once the product reaches its destination (in your case, your customer’s facility), the ReposiTrak Traceability Network assembles the records and stores them in a format that can be downloaded and shared.

If you’re required to do traceability with multiple retailers and wholesalers, each with different data requirements, the ReposiTrak Traceability Network will walk you through how to share ALL data as part of your traceability process. Then, we’ll parse the data in the formatting and structure that each customer requires and send it to them using the protocol they’ve asked for, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

As a supplier, you can use the ReposiTrak

Traceability Network to share traceability data with retailers and wholesalers who are in the network and have sent you an invitation.

The ReposiTrak Traceability Network helps you meet the traceability requirements of your customer by:

  • Gathering the required traceability data from your existing systems
  • Organizing and assembling your traceability data into the complete records required by your customer and the FDA, where applicable

Storing the records in a user-friendly dashboard that you and your customer can access from anywhere at any time, simply by logging in to ReposiTrak.