Supply chain mapping is the process of charting and examining a company’s supply chain to create a comprehensive map of all suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and other key players involved in producing and delivering a product.

Key Traceability checks: Collect data on suppliers, operations, and workers, document it in a platform, analyze relationships and external factors, and use insights to identify opportunities and manage risks.

Key Benefits: Mitigates risks like cybersecurity threats and supply chain vulnerabilities; Informs decisions with risk insights; and improves performance through key metrics like cost, time, and capacity.

Recommendation: combine supply chain mapping with GenuTrace’s plan for physical audits of raw materials and products, followed by testing at an independent forensic lab.

Raw Material Authenticity: verification ensures that materials are genuine, meet quality standards, and are free from counterfeit or adulteration.

Key Traceability checks: Verifying the origin of the raw material through documentation like certificates of analysis, batch numbers, and supplier records to ensure its provenance, as well as conducting origin verification through isotope and/or trace element analysis.

Key aspects: defining material specifications, selecting reliable suppliers, physical inspection, chemical, isotope or trace element analysis, and contaminant testing.

Key Benefits: Ensures product quality, consumer safety, and protects brand reputation. 

Recommendation: Verify your product claims with forensic testing. Utilize the GenuTrace Baseline system for targeted risk-based testing from source to shelf.

Product traceability is the process of tracking a product throughout the supply chain by assigning a unique identifier and recording its journey.

Key Traceability checks: Products are given a unique identifier (e.g., barcode or QR code) and scanned at key points in the supply chain. Manufacturing data is logged, and GPS sensors track containers, while lot numbers, supplier info, and product movements are recorded.

Key Methods of Implementation: barcode scanning, RFID tags, and specialized software systems.

Key Benefits: Traceability helps companies - ensure product quality and safety; compliance with regulations and industry standards; quickly and effectively recall products; identify the source of problems and prevent errors;  and manage inventory and logistics.

Recommendation: When combined with supply chain mapping and raw material authenticity, product traceability becomes highly robust.