One GIANT leap for entire supply chain management and completely changing meanings of the meaning of Track&Trace

Small step for Food Safety — one GIANT leap for entire supply chain management and completely changing meanings of the meaning of Track&Trace
U.S. Food & Drug Administration (#FDA) announced “The new era of smarter food safety”
April 30, 2019. The statement announced bringing into #Food Supply Chain core principles from the pharmaceutical industry of end-to-end #supplychain #digitalization and data integration which challenging everything we used to know in Track&Trace solutions (including the meaning of words “#traceability”, “#transparency”), assets management and supply chain management
Three simple questions for self-assessment of your existing strategy. In the case at least question in missing – there is a high probability that existing strategy need to be carefully reexamined
1) Minimum salable units #serialization
2) Real-time inventory visibility where is each minimum salable unit now in supply chain
3) Real-time data where each minimum salable unit has been in the supply chain at ALL steps starting from the manufacturer
In the case at least question in missing – there is a high probability that existing #strategy need to be carefully reconsidered as not corresponding to #challenges of even 5 years horizon
#supplychainmanagement #customerexperience #foodsafety#digitaltransformation

https://www.fda.gov/…/statement-acting-fda-commissioner-ned…