Top 10: Supply Chain Traceability Platforms

Supply chain traceability refers to the ability to track and trace the history, application and location of a product or its components throughout the entire supply chain. 

This includes every step from raw material sourcing to manufacturing and distribution, right the way through to the end consumer. 

Here, Supply Chain Digital takes a look at the top 10 traceability platforms. 

10. Tilkal

Founded: 2017
CEO: Matthieu Hug

Tilkal is a leading supply chain traceability and trust platform catering for Industry 4.0.

Its mission is to provide responsible businesses with the traceability, transparency and auditability capabilities they need to make their supply chains more resilient, sustainable and ethical.

By combining a B2B blockchain network for secure and verifiable data sharing with analytics and scoring algorithms, Tilkal creates an end-to-end, real-time representation of the supply chain.

Manufacturers and brands operating in various industries use Tilkal to trace their products, identify supply risks, prove ESG commitments and demonstrate compliance.

9. Minespider

Founded: 2018
CEO: Nathan Williams

Minespider is billed as a simple way to onboard suppliers, track materials and verify sustainability credentials. 

The platform is at the forefront of a marked shift towards responsible, compliant and circular mineral supply chains.

One of Minespider’s biggest assets is the Digital Product Passport, which traces:

• The provenance of products and the minerals within them
• ESG, carbon emissions data and compliance metrics throughout a product’s entire lifecycle;
• End-of-life care, such as recycling information.

8. TraceX Technologies

Founded: 2019
CEO: Srivatsa Sreenivasarao

TraceX is a next-generation sustainability platform aimed at food and agriculture supply chains. 

Harnessing the power of blockchain, it connects multiple participants across the supply chain to help them securely exchange verifiable and auditable data. Ultimately, this results in mutual accountability, traceability, transparency and of course, trust. 

With TraceX’s support, members of fragmented supply chains are able to align their activities with climate targets and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Organisations that trust TraceX include ORGANIC INDIA and the Rainforest Alliance. 

7. Sourcemap

Founded: 2011
CEO: Leonardo Bonanni

Sourcemap is a platform for supply chain mapping and transparency, offering tools that help organisations visualise, analyse and manage their supply chains.

The firm's software enables businesses to track and trace their products from raw materials right the way to final product, providing insights into each step of the supply chain.

Sourcemap says: “Our mission is to raise standards across supply chains, from the first mile to the last, by providing the technology companies need to map their supply chains from end to end.”

6. Circularise

Founded: 2016
CEO: Jordi de Vos/Mesbah Sabur

Founded in the Netherlands, Circularise provides supply chain transparency software leveraging blockchain technology to support the circular economy on a large scale.

While understanding that complete transparency may not be feasible across all industries, the firm’s belief is that enhanced transparency is essential for establishing a circular economy.

In a bid to address this, Circularise developed a blockchain-based supply chain traceability solution featuring a unique encryption technology called ‘Smart Questioning’. This assists supply chain participants in tracking products and verifying origins, certificates, carbon footprints and other material data – backed by a public, blockchain-based chain of custody. 

5. TrusTrace

Founded: 2016
CEO: Shameek Ghosh

TrusTrace is a market leading traceability and compliance platform for forward-thinking fashion and footwear brands, as well as textile companies, which are looking to manage their supply chain risk and impact. 

Its vision is a future where value chains are traceable, circular and fair.

Already, this fast-growing firm is empowering many of the world’s largest brands with the data to understand, prove and, where necessary, reduce the impact of their supply chains. 

Meanwhile, TrusTrace offers a Traceability Roadmap – a practical guide to implementing traceability throughout the supply chain.

4. Transparency-One

Founded: 2016
CEO: Chris Morrison (as Senior Managing Director within parent company ISN)

Clearly, extensive supply chain knowledge is crucial to ensuring products are safe, sustainable and responsibly sourced.

Transparency-One assists companies in tracing their supply chain networks, enhancing supplier engagement and ensuring compliant, responsible sourcing. 

Ultimately, this leads to safer facilities, more sustainable and ethical products, reduced risks and increased visibility.

Transparency-One’s three main capabilities are as follows: 

• Transparency and traceability: Map and track supplier, facility and products from raw materials to finished goods
• CSR and compliance management: Capture certifications, documents and assessments at any tier in the supply chain
• Real-Time monitoring and analytics: Analyse supplier compliance, sustainability KPIs and supply chain risks.

3. ZetesOlympus

Founded: 1984
CEO: Pierre Lambert

For every firm, protecting the brand and guaranteeing customer safety is absolutely essential. 

Zetes’ product traceability software, ZetesOlympus, is helping organisations across the EMEA region – from those in pharma and food right the way through to cosmetics and luxury goods – to overcome challenges in this area. 

As margin protection, customer satisfaction and regulation all come to the fore, this track-and-trace platform identifies exactly what’s happening at any given time throughout the supply chain. 

With ZetesOlympus, companies can:

• Meet current and future regulations and legislation
• Verify product provenance and fight counterfeiting
• Ensure efficient product recall management
• Counteract unauthorised product distribution

2. Inspectorio

Founded: 2016
CEO: Chirag Patel

Inspectorio is a leading AI-powered supply chain platform which is optimising performance, building resilience and providing intelligence across production chains for global brands, retailers and their multi-tier suppliers.

This innovative solution seamlessly connects and digitises supply chain processes to optimise decision-making, while providing real-time visibility and control over production.

The traceability and transparency element of Inspectorio means users can ensure an ethical supply chain and mitigate potential regulatory risks through rigorous data collection and validation.

They can also track global regulations and ensure compliance, reducing the risk of products being seized at borders, losing market access or incurring fines.

1. IBM Sterling Transparent Supply

Founded: 1911
CEO: Arvind Krishna

As supply chains become more complex and fragile by the day, businesses desperately  need a comprehensive view of their supplier networks to easily monitor product origins, inventory, shipments, supplier and product sustainability and sourcing details.

IBM Sterling Transparent Supply is the end-to-end traceability solution allowing companies to achieve true optimisation within their supply chains through speed, accuracy and connectivity.

Users can build immutability with a distributed and shared ledger to transact with their supply chain partners in a more trusted and efficient way, which, in turn, enables product-specific traceability, transparency, insights and permissioned data access at enterprise level.

This traceability can be achieved throughout the supply chain – both upstream and downstream – in near real time.

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