Product Traceability
Product traceability solutions from OpSec Security enable brand owners to gain visibility into their channels of distribution, secure their supply chain, and minimize the threat of gray market diversion and theft. The ability to track, monitor, and manage a product’s movement throughout its lifecycle is a fundamental component of a brand protection strategy.
Preventing gray markets typically requires the marking of individual items with a unique serial number or "license plate," then following each item to wherever it travels in a dynamic supply chain. Only with this level of data could a brand owner look at a product found in a flea market, e-commerce site, or in a down-scale retail location and answer the question: "How did it get here?" OpSec provides the key information required to begin solving the problem.
Individual items are marked with unique serialized codes that are associated with their products, packages, cases, pallets, shipments, and customer orders. The system allows access at different levels by brand owners, licensees, customers, and investigators to verify authenticity, check orders, and compile reports.
OpSec's Product Traceability Solutions:
- Generate, apply, and log overt and covert serialized codes to prevent fraud and product diversion
- Associate items to products, cases, and pallets to check packing and shipping transactions
- Monitor passage of items to gain full supply chain visibility from manufacturer to retailer
- Maintain a flexible and robust system for item level tracking that is interoperable with other systems, including ERP and WMS
- Store the history of each unit in a flexible database that facilitates product history and other critical business reporting
- Audit licensing royalties by tracking units manufactured
