Traceability
Traceability ensures transparency across the value chain by addressing silos and enabling secure, interoperable collaboration.
Traceability is essential for creating transparency and accountability across the entire value chain, from production to recycling. By capturing detailed data on every step of a product's lifecycle—including materials, components, and software—companies can ensure compliance, enhance operational efficiency, and enable innovative applications such as circular economy practices and CO2 footprint calculations. This use case highlights how leveraging interoperable systems and standardized processes enables seamless collaboration between stakeholders of all sizes, paving the way for a more sustainable and connected industry.
Challenges
- Fragmented data: Limited sharing of traceability data between organizations, often confined within silos.
- Infrastructure gaps: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often lack the necessary digital infrastructure to participate effectively.
- Complexity of value chains: The multi-layered nature of lifecycle involves numerous processes, stakeholders, and materials, making consistent traceability difficult.
- Cost and effort: Initial efforts to establish traceability systems, especially for SMEs, can be resource-intensive and require technical expertise.
- Interoperability issues: Lack of standardized formats and protocols hinders seamless integration and information exchange.
Solutions
- Breaking down data silos with standardized and secure dataspaces that enable trusted information exchange between organizations.
- Lowering entry barriers by offering intuitive, plug-and-play, out of the box solutions that simplify participation for SMEs and large enterprises alike.
- Ensuring compliance and transparency with verifiable digital credentials that authenticate product origins, processing details, and regulatory adherence.
- Reducing cost and complexity through semantic models and predefined frameworks that streamline traceability implementation.
- Providing a flexible and cloud-agnostic environment that allows businesses to connect, integrate, and build traceability applications tailored to their needs.
Benefits
Trustful
T-Systems’ independent and secure global network entrusted with the initial Gaia-X Digital Clearing House node in Europe
Interactive
Highly intuitive UI for credential holder along with easy-to-use recipient & credential lifecycle management
Intelligent
Service based on customer parameters to allocate trust-levels across dataspace participants for added trust
Sovereign
Use your credentials in any dataspace and maintain control over your self-sovereign identity (SSI).
Interoperable
Take your identities to other data-driven ecosystems for complete interoperability within data mesh context