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PROJECTS

Supply chain traceability system​

The use case

Vietnam is a developing country with a population of 100 million. Recently, food safety got major focus in the government. Since most of the food supply chain doesn’t have cold chain infrastructure (refrigerated transport vehicles and storages), it became important to monitor the freshness of food products to ensure consumers that their food is still safe to eat.

This demand was implemented in the local regulation, but required an IT system, which enables farms to report harvest and transports, slaughterhouses to report slaughterings, and downstream participants (wholesalers, retailers) to report when they received and sent a transport. To track the batches of products efficiently, a QR code based batch/LOT identification system had to be implemented.

Although most supply chain participants, especially smallholder farms don’t have any legacy system for farm management, almost all of them have mobile phones with internet access, so the basis of the data collection needed to be a mobile app.

The solution

Our company had been working with a german company, TE-FOOD GmbH to develop a software solution which contains

The result

The solution is used by over 6000 companies in Southern Vietnam, including all major retail chains. The system tracks pig meat, eggs and chicken meat form farm to table, generating an average 150-200 000 business transactions each day.