Supply Chain Traceability System Ensuring EPCIS Compliance and Enhanced Performance

The client faces challenges in tracking products throughout the supply chain to ensure compliance with global standards such as EPCIS. They require software capable of comprehensive product movement and status tracking from manufacturer to point of sale, with the ability to handle increasing data volumes and provide proactive error detection and reporting to avoid non-compliance issues.

A large-scale retail chain operating both physical stores and online platforms, requiring stringent supply chain monitoring and compliance.

• Develop a comprehensive supply chain traceability system that ensures compliance with the latest EPCIS standards.
• Achieve significant performance improvements, enabling processing of up to 2 million supply chain events per hour, compared to prior capacity of 100,000 events.
• Implement standardized data ingestion, validation, and communication protocols aligned with EPCIS specifications.
• Provide intuitive monitoring, reporting, and alerting functionalities to enhance human oversight and proactive issue resolution.
• Establish rule-based data dissemination among stakeholders, including automated notifications and alerts.

• Capture Service: an API to ingest EPCIS events in XML or JSON, validate adherence to EPCIS standards, and establish data consistency.
• Callback Service: a Windows-based component to organize and transmit validated data among stakeholders based on predefined rules.
• Query Service: an API enabling manual access to stored supply chain events for oversight, debugging, and data analysis.
• User Interface: a frontend platform for employees to monitor supply chain events, filter by entities, manage notifications, view statistics, and generate visual reports.
• Event Monitoring & Notification: real-time alerts on errors or underperformance to facilitate immediate corrective actions.
• Reporting & Analytics: tools for visualized data analysis and comprehensive reporting to support decision-making.

• EPICS-standard data formats for event ingestion and validation
• Stakeholder communication channels for data dissemination
• Notification and alerting systems
• Existing inventory and stock management platforms to integrate traceability data

• High scalability to process up to 2 million events per hour
• Real-time data validation and alerting functionalities
• Robust security measures for sensitive supply chain data
• System availability and fault-tolerance to ensure continuous operations
• User-friendly interface to enable efficient human oversight and control

Implementing this supply chain traceability system is expected to drastically improve data processing capabilities, increasing event processing capacity from 100,000 to 2 million events per hour—representing a 20-fold performance enhancement. Additionally, the system will enhance compliance with international EPCIS standards, provide proactive error detection, reduce operational risks, and streamline stakeholder communication, leading to improved supply chain transparency and efficiency.