Traceability & CMCA
Traceability Tells a Product’s Story
Seafood comes from myriad fishing vessels and farms operating around the world. To know what a product truly is and where it’s from requires Full-Chain Traceability (FCT) to tell the what, where, who, when and how for every pound of seafood you buy and sell.
Long Complex Supply Chains
Seafood can be harvested in Argentina or Indonesia and consumed in Boston or Paris. During this long journey, each unique harvest will often be sorted, co-mingled, processed, packed and shipped. Each product is linked back to the harvest lots and tracked on a lot-by-lot basis as it is transformed and bought and sold. All steps generate data that detail what happened to each product as they move through supply chains.
There’s Too Much Data
Massive quantities of seafood supply chain data are produced, often unstructured, and non-machine-readable—spread across emails, spreadsheets, paper documents, and disconnected systems. Given the sheer volume and often poor quality of the data, it is almost impossible for only humans to read and use the data for its intended purpose.
The Data is Essential for Your Business
Supply chain data is essential to show that seafood products have been produced legally and sustainably, and meet safety, quality, and human rights requirements. You must use it to reduce the risk of failed audits, recalls, and legal penalties. Providing trustworthy data to your trading partners will build trust and improve relationships, which can lead to more business.
ORIGIN by Trace Register is Here to Help
ORIGIN is our new platform designed for the future of seafood traceability. It has an intuitive UX/UI making it accessible and user friendly for all clients. It is global so clients around the world can use it in their local languages while conducting their business. ORIGIN’s many capabilities, along with our team of seafood traceability experts, will help you solve industry problems now and those that emerge in the future. ORIGIN is being released incrementally and will replace our current TR5 platform by the end of 2025.
LINK. ANALYZE. ACT. for Smarter Traceability
Our platform is built on a foundation of “Link. Analyze. Act.” that enables Full-Chain Traceability for innumerable seafood supply chains around the world.
At its core is CMCA: continuous monitoring and continuous analysis.
Link
Linked data creates context and clarifies meaning. Our platform links trade items, locations, CTEs, orders, and trading partners to provide Full-Chain Traceability.
80% less data entry
Seafood product stories
Helps interoperability
Analyze
If you don’t trust data, it won’t be used and has no value. CMCA checks data against pre-defined rule sets, identifying defects to be corrected, and providing smarter insights.
Trustworthy data
DMAIC continuous improvement
Manage quality
Act
Trustworthy data gives you the confidence to use it. Proactive smart action will greatly improve your business.
Satisfy requirements
Prevent problems
Build relationships
CMCA: The Heart of Smarter Traceability
CMCA (Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Analysis) checks data against preconfigured rules to determine whether it passes or fails. If it fails, clients are made aware so corrections can be made. Rule sets are made up of multiple rules and used to check compliance for requirements such as Sustainability, SIMP, and others.
Completeness
Checks that data has been provided in a required field, i.e. an address must have a country.
Consistency
Checks that key values do not change along the supply chain, i.e. tuna cannot become salmon down the chain.
Validity
Checks that only approved values occur, i.e. in a specific fishery, only one type of fishing gear can be used.
Sustainability
Uses rule sets that check many data points to determine if seafood satisfies sustainability policies. For wild products, it checks vessel ID, gear type, species caught, fishing location, etc. For farmed products, it checks rearing method, farm certificates, etc.
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