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Food traceability framework
Do you know where that's been?
Beef. Peanut butter. Pet food. These are just some of the high-profile recalls the world has seen recently. Consumers worldwide are concerned-and rightly so. Is their food safe? And where did it come from? IBM offers food traceability solutions that lead the industry, delivering unprecedented value for those who seek to ensure the safety of food products.
Visibility from farm to fork
The food traceability framework from IBM takes an instrumented approach to your supply chain, as each asset is assigned a unique identifier. This could be a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag assigned to an animal, a barcode assigned to a package or an ID that represents the acre on which a crop was grown.
The product can then be scanned, sending data to the receiving service. The solution helps your supply chain infrastructure become more interconnected by enabling communication between service providers and service requesters, allowing you to route messages, convert protocols, transform data formats and handle events.
And finally, the framework provides an intelligent management system with dashboard services and strong reporting tools to accurately parse the real-time analytics delivered from the sensors.
Feed your appetite for innovation
From manufacturing plants to transportation equipment, farming equipment to reusable containers, the food traceability framework offers a holistic approach to keeping food safe.
- Build your brand and honor your consumers while you gain fresh visibility into your data.
- Strengthen compliance with regulations throughout agencies and geographies.
- Gain the ability to monitor and track every step in the complex supply chain and manufacturing process.
- Execute a fast, targeted product recall that keeps potential harm to an absolute minimum and is more efficient for all parties, including manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
The ingredients for safer, smarter food
With proven technologies, service model pricing and support for easy transition of data between partners, the food traceability framework from IBM delivers strong capabilities. The framework can include:
- Sensors and scanners—RFID tags, barcode labels and various condition sensors such as motion detection, temperature, humidity and vibration.
- IBM® InfoSphere™ Traceability Server—maintains product relationships and movement activity across the food supply chain.
- IBM WebSphere® Sensor Events—provides a sensor/device interface, data capture, event processing and application integration; filters data and correlates between disparate sensors to derive higher order business events.
- IBM Cognos® analytics and reporting software—delivers the business intelligence capability to integrate data from multiple sources.
- WebSphere Portal—provides the user interface and dashboards that allow human data entry if the technology-related capability is not available.
