Atos Consulting Look Out | Sensors and Tracking

Concept

In manufacturing, traceability is all about keeping up-to-date records that link products or ingredients from supplier through the supply chain to the customer. It also includes all the stages of product creation. Formerly, a paper-based approach was taken, but increasingly technology is being installed to update and store records electronically.
Sensors will be used to automatically detect items at each stage so that their status and lifecycle can be recorded.

Trajectory

Retailers and legislators are leaning on manufacturers to install technology that will have complete traceability right down through the supply chain.
Barcoding has been a popular method of identifying objects, but simple barcodes are purely identifying labels. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is becoming more popular.
Being able to effectively and efficiently recall a product will benefit the consumer, by ensuring that any potential safety issues are dealt with swiftly, and the manufacturer, by ensuring that necessary batches are recalled.
Should RFID mandates be rolled out by retailers to suppliers in support of this, those manufacturers that have a tracing system in place would have an immediate advantage.

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