Traceability: Is One Standard the Cure?
“What the traceability industry needs right now is a single traceability standard”.
This underlying theme was echoed in a number of presentations from several speakers at the recent Traceability Inter-Operability conference hosted by the Traceability Institute in Denver a few weeks ago. The main barrier to widespread traceability adoption by the food industry, these presentations argued, was the lack of a single traceability standard which could exchange traceability data seamlessly from one company to another throughout all their trading partners in a supply chain.
Unfortunately, each speaker was talking only about the traceability standard that their company commercially offers, and their implicit message was “If only everyone would speak my language, all companies in the food supply chain would be able to communicate and this industry would begin to rapidly grow.” In other words, the presenters wanted all of the other solution providers in the audience to abandon their traceability solution and jump on the presenter’s bandwagon–”my way or the highway”
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