Fresh produce traceability app for fruit, vegetable: inventory, processing, packing, sales & distribution
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Fresh produce traceability app for fruit, vegetable
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farmsoft delivers opportunities to reduce waste during the packing, processing, storage, and distribution phases. By enforcing best practices, FIFO (when practical), inventory expiry monitoring, and easy stock takes - your company has every opportunity to minimize waste and maximize profit. From bar-code managed inventory, inventory labeling, to 3D pallet storage, farmsoft delivers on reduced waste. Checkout best practices for handling perishable inventory....
The ability of modern supply chains for fresh produce to provide traceability is becoming the norm. At present the systems need to provide relatively straightforward capability to trace back from the market to the source of supply, or trace forward by associating production information with the product. There are, however, significant opportunities to improve supply chain performance through better traceability as well. Two examples are introduced to highlight this potential, one that provides feedback to growers on measured quality and the other feedback to the market on predicted quality. These applications for information sharing require a detailed level of traceability. At this level of detail it is not possible to have an absolute confidence in individual fruit traceability due to mixing that occurs at certain points in the supply chain. The level of traceability is, however, adequate to facilitate improved information systems for enhanced supply chain performance.
Ensuring Traceability of Fresh Produce
In the event that produce purchased for your school nutrition program is recalled, you are responsible
for tracing the produce one step back (trace back) to your supplier and one step forward (trace forward)
to when and to whom it was served. Follow these tips to help you track produce in the event of a food
recall:
• Maintain purchasing records for all produce. All purchasing records, typically invoices, should include
lot numbers and other identifiers, such as pack date. If lot number and other critical information are not
already included on the invoice, add it upon receipt.
• Maintain contact information for all suppliers, including farms, if produce is purchased directly from
them.
• Label all produce so that you can identify the source and trace it back through your purchasing records.
Keep produce in original packaging when possible.
• Avoid commingling produce from different sources in storage, preparation, or service.
u If you commingle, you may not be able to identify the specific source of the produce in the event of
a recall.
u If the same product is purchased from a farm, multiple farms, or a distributor, keep the products
segregated through storage and service and keep records of when each product is served.
Example: Apples are purchased from The Apple Farm and Distributor XYZ. Apples from The Apple Farm
are stored separately and labeled clearly. The Apple Farm apples are not added to cases partially filled
with apples from Distributor XYZ, or stored in empty cases that previously held apples from the
distributor.
• Document information on the menu management/production record to enable you to trace all produce
items back to your purchasing records, should a recall occur. Record information about the source of
the produce--a distributor, a farm, or a school garden.
• Include information on your shipping documents if
produce is prepared at one location and shipped to
another location for service.
• Label repacked fresh produce containers when
distributing it to schools in quantities less than a full case.
This practice will facilitate trace back to its original source
in your purchasing records.
• Conduct a periodic mock recall of fresh produce to test
your internal tracking system. Include your
distributors in the mock recall to test their internal
traceability program
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Fresh Produce Traceability software
Always be audit ready with end-to-end, paperless QA and traceability, evidencing conformance to industry and customer standards.
Strict traceability regulations are a major challenge for the fresh produce sector. Failing to comply may lead to fines, damage to your business reputation and to your customer relationships.
Track full consignments across your supply chain and factory processes
SI’s industry-leading shop-floor data capture and reporting provides precise farm to fork traceability to:
– Support consignment mixing, throughout all process and packing phases;
– Digitally track produce. From intake, stock, value-added production, packing, through to distribution;
– Identify and flag up non-conformances for action;
– Deliver full traceability and mass balance reporting in seconds, not hours.
– And, if you are faced with a product recall, real-time data provides all the information required in seconds, identifying all products, minimising the time and cost to handle recalls.
We import from around the world. Some of our imported product takes 2-3 days by truck or by flight. Knowing where this product is and when it’s going to arrive is key to our business.
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Fresh Produce Traceability
Always be audit ready with SI’s end-to-end, paperless QA and traceability, evidencing conformance to fresh produce industry and customer standards, and tracking full consignments across supply chains and factory processes.
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Traceability is a business process that enables trading partners to follow products forward and backward through the supply chain.
Produce Traceability
Traceability is important to the produce industry for many reasons, including improving food safety by being able to quickly and accurately remove potentially harmful products from the supply chain.
The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) is an industry led initiative to achieve whole chain traceability in the produce supply chain by using common industry data standards and the electronic storage and retrieval of traceability related data.
Traceability has become an issue of great importance to the produce industry due to regulatory requirements such as the U.S. Bioterrorism Act, as well as ongoing food safety issues and the need for supply chain transparency and more information on the produce we grow, pack, ship, store, process, distribute and sell.
The Produce Traceability Initiative was formed in 2008 by representatives from over 40 companies including growers, packer/shippers, marketers, distributors and wholesalers, food service and retail and eight trade associations to begin working on an action plan to ensure the industry has a process that will work for the entire supply chain.
The Produce Traceability Initiative Steering Committee developed a traceability solution that members felt could be reasonably implemented by produce companies, large and small alike, across the entire supply chain and operating within the U.S. market and those exporting to the U.S.
Leafy Green Traceability Pilots Reveal the Value of Sharing Extended Product Information During a Traceback Investigation
On December 3, 2020 a group of six industry organizations released a report outlining four months of leafy green traceability pilots with supply chain partners, including growers, distributors and both independent and chain retailers, offering a detailed response to the request by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) for improved traceability in the food system.
The three pilots, conducted July through October, showed that investigations into foodborne illness outbreaks could be streamlined and conducted more effectively when supply chain partners provided extended product information during tracebacks.
Additionally, the use of a standard template called the Produce Traceback Template to exchange pertinent product information was found to enhance the speed of tracing procedures. All of the pilots were successful in tracing the source of the affected product.
Food Traceability in Legislative and Regulatory Circles
While several congressional bills include traceability either as a component or as the exclusive focus including the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which will encompass a record-keeping rule that focuses on traceability.
Industry Perspective on Proposed Rule
Growers, fresh-cut processors, distributors, and retail/foodservice sectors each face unique challenges in capturing, managing and linking traceability data, and developed a white paper to share some of these perspectives.
FDA's Product Tracing Pilot Report Released from IFT aligns with PTI
A report, Pilot Projects for Improving Product Tracing Along the Food Supply System Final Report, required by FSMA was published for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). It provided recommendations on traceability that are consistent with the industry's Produce Traceability Initiative.
The report aligns with PTI in many of its recommendations, including:
encouraging current industry-led initiatives
not excluding commodities
accepting electronic traceability data/records during product tracing investigations
requiring all organizations that handle food in the supply chain to identify and maintain records of traceability related information
Produce Traceability Initiative Participating Companies
PTI is supported by the volunteer work of dozens of companies that hail from across the fresh produce supply chain, from farm to store to table. Representatives of these companies currently serve as volunteers to PTI's Leadership Council, Executive Committee, working groups and/or task forces.
Global Food Traceability Center (GFTC)
The Global Food Traceability Center (GFTC) is a collaborative partnership including public and private stakeholders, created to address the challenges and opportunities of global food traceability implementation.
The Mission of the GFTC is to serve all aspects of the global food system by generating knowledge that addresses informational gaps while delivering applied research, objective advice, and practical expertise about food product traceability and data collaboration for private benefit and public good.
PMA participates as the sole produce trade association as a founding member and advisory board member of the GFTC. This will ensure the fundamentals of the Produce Traceability Initiative will be adopted by the GFTC as the global standard for fresh produce traceability.
Webinars
PTI's 5 Ws (and 1 H): Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
This webinar is designed for anyone seeking a basic understanding of the PTI. In this session, the PTI’s volunteer and staff leaders will address why traceability change is needed, how the PTI came about, what its implementation costs and benefits are, the standards that are involved, and where to find implementation help. After this session, you will have a clear understanding of what the PTI really is – and what it isn’t.
Implementing PTI: Best Practices for Packers/Shippers
Learn best practices for implementing PTI from early adopters with hands-on experience in both field and facility packing. You will take away sound, real-world recommendations for implementing PTI within your business, and where to find resources.
Implementing PTI: Best Practices for Assigning GTINs
In this session, you will learn how to approach Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) assignment strategically as well as best practices to use in assigning your GTINs.
Implementing PTI: Best Practices for Case Labeling
In this session, you will learn more about the global GS1 standards upon which PTI-compliant case labels are based. You will also learn the basics of case labeling from PTI early adopters. You will take away hands-on tips and tools for implementing case labeling, while minimizing your company’s time and costs as much as possible.
Implementing PTI: Best Practices for Retailers
In this session, you will learn best practices for retailers implementing the PTI from sector early adopters. You will take away a plan for implementing the PTI within your business, and contact points for additional help.
Implementing PTI: Best Practices for Hybrid Pallet Labeling
The PTI Hybrid Pallet Label offers an interim solution to traceable pallet labeling if you or your trading partners aren't yet ready for GS1 Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) pallet labels. This session will cover best practices for creating and placing your pallet labels, and preparing your customers to receive them. You will take away the tools and information needed to successfully execute Hybrid Pallet Labels in your operation.
Implementing PTI: Best Practices for Produce Brokers
This session will focus on best practice recommendations to help develop and maintain efficient shipping, receiving and communication processes for buy and sell arrangements involving produce brokers. Multiple scenarios of shipments of orders to customers will be discussed.
E-learning Course: Traceability in the Fresh Produce Industry
Designed to assist the produce industry to learn how to implement traceability processes for their businesses, this e-Learning module is available to help improve supply chain efficiencies from the field to the consumer and ensure that the right product gets to the right place at the right time.
Related Links
The Produce Traceability Initiative Website was designed to help the industry maximize the effectiveness of current traceback procedures, while developing a standardized industry approach to enhance the speed and efficiency of traceability systems for the future. The website serves as a central resource to provide industry members with extensive education, outreach and guidance on implementing traceability.
SMALL BUSINESS
You choose which features you want from farmsoft to bring maximum benefits to your business. Here are some various processes used by farmsoft clients:
* Receive & label inventory
* Sort, grade, wash, pack, and label finished goods
* Sell fresh produce by invoice
Fresh produce traceability app
There are currently more than one billion smartphones in use across the world – and that figure is projected to double by 2015. As the use of “smart” mobile devices continues to grow, apps have become an incredibly effective way of providing information and resources to a wide audience. farmsoft provides access to food traceability information directly from smartphones, tablets, and PC's. Essential traceability information can be accessed at any place in the fresh produce supply chain.
Fresh Produce Traceability and Transparency.
Tracking and Traceability / May 11, 2021 / By Chris Lott
Those responsible for growing, distributing, and shipping fresh produce need to have total visibility into their supply chain. It’s so important that traceability solutions are implemented to best accomplish those aims.
Traceability is key in virtually every industry, but it’s especially so for those working in agriculture. Today’s consumers want to know where their food is coming from and how it was processed so they can make socially and environmentally conscious decisions about which businesses they support.
“The growing utilization of organic wash water for minimization of chlorine contents in processed fruits & vegetable products will drive the processed fruits and vegetables market segment growth.” – Global Market Insight
When you have access to impressive traceability and tracking systems like Coolearth Software offers, you can provide that information as a selling point.
Foodborne illness is a costly problem.
Also in many cases, traceability comes into play during food recalls or reports of foodborne illness. One only has to do a quick internet search to find that the data on food contamination that resulted in foodborne illnesses likely occurred during the growing, harvesting, packing, holding, or transportation processes.
If a fresh produce item becomes contaminated, traceability will allow for the protection of consumer health while minimizing potential losses for growers, shippers, and distributors. If your traceability process is sound, you won’t have to recall an entire lot of goods; instead, you can identify which products are affected, where they’re currently being sold, and potentially recall them with greater accuracy.
Bottom line, robust traceability and tracking can prioritize public health adherence and the health of your business in general.
Improve your fresh produce traceability? Management Software.
Ultimately, one of the best ways to improve fresh produce traceability is by utilizing supply chain management software. Supply chain management software vendors, like Coolearth Software, understand the struggle many growers, distributors, and shippers face when keeping up with various aspects of the fulfillment process. Instead of relying on outdated methods of traceability and subsequently risk damage to your brand or customers, it’s best to let supply chain management software do the work. You can easily transition from a paper system to a digital one, allowing your organization to adopt the cutting-edge technology to protect your brand, your vendors, and your end customers.
An increase in smartphone use happens to coincide with the growth of a consumer demand for more sustainable food – “organic,” “locally grown,” “seasonal,” and “pesticide-free” are becoming more and more common in the vernacular of food sales. In the United States alone, annual sales of organic foods and beverages grew from US$6 billion in 2000 to US$26.7 billion in 2010. And there are nearly three times as many farmers markets in the United States today as there were in 2000.
It’s no surprise, then, that there are lots of apps for those interested in eating more healthful food, wasting less food, finding sustainable sources of seafood, or buying seasonally. These 23 apps for mobile devices and tablets are helping eaters, producers, advocates, and activists lead less wasteful and more environmentally sustainable, healthy, and delicious lives......
Electronic Labeling For Food Traceability And Fresh Produce Integrity
Fresh Produce Traceability app
Fresh Produce Traceability app
Fresh Produce Traceability app
The year 2018 saw North America reeling under multiple E.coli outbreaks, with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention issuing a blanket warning against consuming the suspected source — romaine lettuce. The agency along with the Food and Drug Administration struggled to pinpoint the source for the outbreak. Similar outbreaks of foodborne illnesses like Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Salmonella have also littered the past year affecting hundreds of people. Foodborne illnesses cause millions of dollars worth in losses from recalls, loss in sales and damage to brand reputation. Money needs to also be spent on notifying retailers, regulatory bodies and storing or disposing of affected products and government fines.
So, what steps are the government agencies and enterprises taking to reduce the impact of such outbreaks in the future? The CDC and FDA are encouraging labels on susceptible fresh produce which clearly state the origin of the product as well as when it was harvested so that consumers can take a more informed decision while purchasing. In fact, product labels can go a long way in boosting food safety and accurately locating the ground zero for outbreaks. With digitization gaining momentum everywhere, electronic packaging and labeling solutions are the key to delivering consistent and reliable data of each product’s journey from farm to shelves.
Simplifying Complex Food Systems with Reliable Data
Food systems are highly complex. A restaurant may have bought tomatoes from multiple distributors, who themselves may have repackaged their products after sourcing them from a variety of farms. We can see how it becomes a challenge to trace the origins of each item back to its source. It is thus important to link all the diverse participants within a supply chain. Reliable and consistent data is the indispensable factor that decides the integrity of food quality and helps quickly locate the ground zero during recall situations.
Fresh produce traceability app
Fresh produce traceability app
The challenge presents itself in the collection, management and analysis of such a large amount of data without suffering any damage to its quality. Much of this data is maintained by distributors in their respective PIMs, but they are neither in congruence with each other nor exposed to the end consumer. But technology has advanced in leaps and bounds making it possible to transform everyday items, even fresh produce into active and intelligent objects. Bringing electronic labeling solutions and cloud computing into the fold makes it simpler to record each and every event occurring to a product. Digital tags (RFID, NFC, QR codes, data matrix codes, barcodes) on packaging and labels can be used as the medium to link fresh produce to the internet, essentially giving them a unique identity or digital twin that is capable of collecting and relaying information about itself (origins, current location, previous stops in the supply chain etc.). Thus, by converting fresh produce and all food products into connected smart products and bringing all partners within the supply chain into a shared system to maintain integrity, the end result on the shelf will be capable of accurately describing its journey to a potential buyer.
Minimizing Impact of Contaminated Food with Traceability
With certain fresh produce, foodborne illnesses are unavoidable. The least we can do is to look for innovative solutions in order to contain their spread and minimize their impact. The detective work that goes into identifying the source farms for the outbreak of foodborne illness is exhaustive and time consuming. By the time government officials figure out the origin, the contaminated produce has already covered a lot of ground and affected hundreds of people. Entire supplies of the suspected produce gets halted resulting in severe losses and prices of similar produce shooting up. Brands associated with the produce take a hit to their reputation.
But fresh produce powered by electronic labels can show exactly which farm or distributor it has traveled from via it’s digital twin on the web. With a far more uncluttered food supply chain to sieve through, the investigative tasks for regulators becomes much more simpler. Product recalls become more straightforward by targeting only the suspected farms, instead of banning the supply of the entire range of the produce. Traceability is thus the key to tackling and understanding the causes for such frequent outbreaks.
But better management of foodborne illnesses is just one of the advantages of going digital.
Increased Visibility means fewer mishaps down the Supply Chain
Retailers, distributors, manufacturers and farmers can all benefit hugely from smart packaging and electronic labels. The digital transformation of very complex supply chains afford more transparency into all events that are a part of it and make available data of higher quality to work with. From producers to distributors, packaging companies and retailers, each participant can know the exact actions of a particular item within the supply chain. When you have a complete and accurate record of each product’s journey at both SKU and batch levels from all active participants, processes that focus on narrowing down sources for inadequacies or anomalies in events of a product recall situation become faster and simpler — more powerful.
Enterprises can keep track of harvest dates and accordingly plan logistics to ship items to locations depending on their freshness. A digital record via the digital twin of each item on the web enables far better stock keeping. These digital twins ensure that store employees are alerted to produce that are nearing their expiry dates or use-by dates . With a clearer view of items in their inventory that might soon be going bad, companies can plan for and take definite stems in offloading these items through multiple channels; for example sell them at cheaper rates or donate them to food banks.
Product Data is equally valuable to Consumers and Enterprises
Fresh produce traceability app
Fresh produce traceability app
It is not just enterprises who benefit from traceability and the expanded product information afforded by electronic labels. Consumers today are looking for more than an ingredient list on product labels. They want to know use-by and expiry dates, ingredients, allergen information, instructions for storage and preparation, advisory and warning statements, country of origin and much more. Savvy consumers are conscious of how their lifestyle choices and purchase decisions impact the world. Not only are they more aware of environmental and social issues, they want each aspect of their lives to contribute to the betterment of the world. This involves their purchase decisions being more responsible, sustainable and ethical. Brands would be unwise to ignore this shift in mindset and would do well to deliver more visibility into their products to build richer relations with their customers.
But there is only so much that the physical surface of a product can manage to cram into its limited confines! But the digital space is not bound by such confines. It can contain an endless amount of data, can capture and store changes in real time, distribute relevant data into multiple channels as deemed necessary and enable a user friendly interface to display the data, reducing unnecessary confusion caused by overcrowded text on product labels.
Electronic labels leverage the universal presence of smartphone technology in our daily lives to enable access to expanded product information at the point of consideration for a sale. Not only can brands utilize e-labels for the purposes of ensuring higher consumer transparency, it could be an opportunity for some innovation in packaging and branding. Smart packaging and interactive product labels can lead to a more personalized, interesting and fun shopping experience for richer, smarter and thoughtful customer engagement and experiences.
Electronic labels can reinvent smaller enterprises and farmers
There are plenty of smaller enterprises that pride over their organic produce. Fresh produce from such farms generally do not carry any outer packaging, save for a tiny sticker. These enterprises can capitalize on these tiny stickers to deliver rich content to their consumers. A single data matrix code on a sticker can elevate a orange into a connect smart product. Scanning its sticker will tell the potential buyer how and where the single orange was grown, the date it was harvested, temperature and storage conditions it was under as well as the locations it has passed through before reaching a local supermarket. It can carry information verifying its organic nature and lack of any bio-engineered content through certifications. Electronic labels can help smaller enterprises and farmers re-imagine their business practices by appealing to a more technologically savvy market base.
And that is not all that a simple data matrix code can do. Its traceability feature will also help smaller enterprises come onto a shared system of collaborators in events of contaminated and poisoned food circulating the market.
It is the responsibility of every enterprise which works to grow and distribute food, to ensure a bountiful supply of safe and fresh produce to the mass. Meshing the digital and physical world is the key to securing the integrity of the fresh food supply chain.
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Kenya: National Horticulture Traceability System launched
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries (MOALF) through Horticultural Crops Directorate (HCD) of Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) in collaboration with the horticulture exporters Associations of Kenya (FPEAK and KFC) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID, through its Kenya Agricultural Value chain Enterprise (KAVES) project; have developed an online National Horticulture Traceability System (HTS).
The cloud-based system is unique to Kenya and will make it possible for any shipment that does not comply with market standards on arrival in the export market to be traced back to source, and remedial action taken immediately.
The system was developed to increase transparency and accountability in horticultural supply chains in response to recent challenges faced by the industry in complying with EU and international food safety requirements. These include lack of a national traceability system for horticulture produce; frequent interceptions of exports due to excessive pesticide maximum residue levels; and the presence of regulated pests in export consignments. These challenges pose a threat to the competitiveness of Kenyan horticulture exports, which are currently valued at KES 90 billion (USD 888 million) annually with 80 percent going to EU markets.
Fresh produce traceability app
Fresh produce traceability app
Fresh produce traceability app
The National Horticulture Traceability System has been developed over the last 18 months through a pilot phase involving 12 export companies and 1,460 smallholders growing beans and peas in 10 countries. The system has three main components: a mobile app for registering farmers and capturing routine farm operations and agronomic practices; a web reporting portal for sharing information among stakeholders; and a barcode and Quick Reference (QR) code printing module.
The HTS is customized for Kenya’s smallholder-based export industry and can accommodate up to one million farmers. The HTS has the capacity to identify the exact source of a shipment through its GPS coordinates, and generate online production and handling reports required by the market. Deployment of the HTS will increase market confidence and safeguard more than 2.5 million smallholder farmers and workers involved in export horticulture. The system will increase the competitiveness of Kenyan horticulture exports through enhanced transparency in the supply chain. It will facilitate a rapid response to food safety risks by providing the capacity to identify, isolate, and rectify non-compliant producers; and expedite responses to pest and disease early warning alerts by locating affected areas.
The HTS system will place Kenya at the leading edge of countries supplying the EU market with horticultural crops.
The National Horticulture Traceability System was launched Thursday September 8, 2016 at the KALRO National Agriculture Research Laboratories (NARL). The launch was officiated by the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries, Hon. Willy Bett and the USAID Assistant to the Administrator Bureau of Food Security, Beth Dunford.
For more information:
USAID-KAVES
kaves@fintrac.com
The Managing Director- Horticultural Crops Directorate
md.hcda@gmail.com
The Director General- Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA)
info@agricultureauthority.go.ke
Freshliance brings out new product
Cloud-based temperature tracking system improves product traceability
Recently, Freshliance brought out a new product: a cloud-based real time temperature tracking system. Compared to similar temperature recording systems on the market, this product's special feature is that it can improve the traceability, and record the temperatures for more than one year. This means that the transportation record can be traced back even further.
Cloud-based real time temperature tracking system
Real time temperature tracking system improves traceability
By using this cloud-based temperature tracking system, the customer can follow the transport in real time with the app or on the website, and exactly know its location. Freshliance has developed this product based on the requirements of its foreign customers. After solving its server problems, it has now started to sell in China as well.
Fresh produce traceability app
Fresh produce traceability app
Cloud-based real time temperature tracking system
Currently, Freshliance has a server in Europe. In the future, it will also have a Chinese and an English system for the Chinese and foreign market. For the international promotion of its cloud-based real time temperature tracking system, Freshliance will attend the American PMA Fresh Summit in New Orleans, and the German Anuga Fair in Cologne, where they hope to find more partners
From 19-21 October, Freshliance will be at stand 4704 of the PMA Fresh Summit in New Orleans. They will attend the Anuga Fair in Cologne from 7-11 October at stand 024a in exhibition hall 4.1A.
Kevin Wu (Marketing Director)
FRESHLIANCE
http://www.freshliance.com/
Indian app promises to track and trace fruit & veg
A new app is promising to provide all the information you may need with a few taps on your phone. FarmLink, an Indian fruit and vegetable supply and chain company, will soon be launching an app called FarmTrace that will trace a product from the farm to the consumer. With a seed stage funding of Rs 200 million (2.5 mln euros) from its parent company last year, Pioneering Ventures and Syngenta, the agri-tech company intends to expand its geographical reach, strengthen its technology and contribute to the supply chain.
The FarmTrace app would help a consumer locate the store where they can find the right food and also get to know the location where it was grown and the nutritional factors that made it.
Founded in 2014, the agri-tech start-up obtains the fruits and vegetables directly from farmers through a network of collection and service centres. The produce is then delivered to established retail stores, hotels, cafes, e-commerce platforms, among others.
But the company is now going one step further by deploying a B2C consumer traceability app that can track the product from farm to shelf, allowing customers and consumers to get a transparent insight into when, where, and how the food was grown.
Economictimes.indiatimes.com reports how in the final stages of making FarmTrace, the app is available to all Android and iOS users.
While the app is currently available, the company says it is going through a phase of testing at Hosur in Bangalore and they expect to launch it in June. The pilot launch will be in Bangalore and will be subsequently available across states in India at a later stage.
Migros implements TE-FOOD for blockchain based food traceability
Migros, a retailer in Switzerland, implements TE-FOOD’s blockchain based traceability system for its fresh fruits & vegetables supply chains. The project provides an interesting case for food traceability, and aims to deliver significant value for Migros and its supply chain partners.
Although a growing number of food companies are launching traceability projects, many of them focus only on the marketing advantages by providing transparent food information to their consumers. However, food traceability can provide more value from easier product recalls to improved supply chain control.
Migros wants to achieve deeper supply chain insights to optimize its processes. Supply chain optimization can lead to quicker distribution and reduced food waste, which is also part of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) initiatives for the next years.
Fresh food suppliers of Migros already had the possibility to communicate traceability data from their legacy systems (ERP, Farm management) to Migros through a GS1 standards based API (EPCIS). Now this data collection method was extended to a B2B mobile app, a web app, and file upload possibility - with the assistance of TE-FOOD.
Traceability data, which is sent by the suppliers, is automatically transformed to GS1’s Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) format, and sent to Migros’ own EPCIS system. The system is aimed to be used internally, opening it up towards consumers is outside of the current project’s scope.