Grocery Cold Chain Temperature & Tracking
SMARTER MONITORING TO PROTECT YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
Grocers face various challenges today, from Managing inbound grocery Cold-Chain Products from Suppliers to traceability of products to Last Mile and employee compliance to operating procedures.
- Up to 12% of all inbound product is rejected at the truck level due to surplus, damage, or improper transportation and handling
- Limited capability to react to recalls at the consumer level with no practical way to track what product was purchased by which customer
- Current methods for monitoring the proper handling of products throughout the supply chain do not allow for granular analysis
Grocers need better data to make decisions across a variety of challenges to increase revenue and reduce cost. The Varcode Smart Data Solution (VSDS) is a simple solution that solves complex grocery cold chain temperature and tracking problems!
Operational Usability
- A simple scan either by a smartphone, handheld scanner, or mobile computer
- POS will collect information in a quick, familiar step.
- Scanning is universal
- Workers are accustomed to scanning and receiving instructions back about operations.
- Instructions transmitted immediately.
- Exception alerts automatically generated
- Problems are anticipated, intercepted, and resolved in real-time.
- Smart tag™ can be formatted as universal identifier codes such as Code 128, UPC-a, GS1 DataBar, Code 39, UPC-E, or EAN codes to seamlessly integrate into existing tracing data used today
Economically Scalable - Even to the Unit Level
- Exception alerts automatically generated
- Problems are anticipated, intercepted, and resolved
- Product is traceable through consumer purchase with a universally unique identifier and Varcode Smart Tag™ combination
- Product-specific information down to the unit enabling tracking in case of a product recall.
Digital Data
- Actionable, digital data in an easily understood and analyzed format
- Visibility and traceability into transitional weak points of the cold-cold chain that are otherwise cost-prohibitive
- Analytical oversight by temperature excursions, date/time, location, individual, and company
- Cross functionality – Use data across segments from supplier to distribution to the shelf and even down to the consumer level
