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Fresh produce growers are familiar with the Produce Traceability Initiative and its goal to achieve supply chain-wide adoption of electronic traceability by the year 2012. But if you are unfamiliar with barcoding technology, then you might not know exactly what it is you need that will give you a complete tracking solution. PTI will require […]

If your goal is to implement the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) in your business, then you are aware of the industry-wide effort to create a process to trace produce cases throughout the supply chain.  The PTI offers an implementation “toolkit” to help you reach your goal. On the PTI webpage you can find specifics about each one of […]

The GS1 128 barcode has become a standard in many industries for allowing data to be encoded into barcodes using standard formats so that the data can be used in applications all over the world. It has become a standard tool for organizations wanting to improve their supply chain visibility. Probably the biggest downside to […]

Getting those DoD contracts can be really important for your business, but often there are clauses that are somewhat unclear. One of these relates to the UID marking clause – DFARS 252.211-7003, which covers Item Identification and Valuation. If this clause appears in your contract, there is a very good chance that you will need […]