Traceability
Healthcare traceability and GS1 standards
Tracking products across the healthcare supply chain eliminates counterfeit healthcare products, increases patient safety and complies with regulations.
What is traceability:
Traceability in healthcare enables you to see the movement of prescription drugs or medical devices across the supply chain. You can trace backwards to identify the history of the transfers and locations of a product, from the point of manufacture onwards. And you can track forwards to see the intended route of the product towards the point of care.
The retail supply chain is getting more complex, where there are not only business to business interphases but with businesses to the consumer. With this added complexity, a quality professional in a multinational corporation or a food business owner is required to have the ability to track and trace the source of raw materials to the final destination of the product. Traceability enables products to be made visible across the supply chain, building the fundamental blocks within quality, risk management and other types of systems.
Traceability in retail standards
Our standards offer globally unique identification and data capture of trade items, assets, logistic units, parties and locations. In addition, our standards enable critical data exchanges to be recorded so that there is alignment of traceability information between trading partners.