ReposiTrak Announces Patent-Pending Touchless Traceability™ Technology
ReposiTrak (NYSE: TRAK), recognized as the world’s largest food traceability and regulatory compliance network, has announced that its innovative Touchless Traceability™ solution is now patent pending. The technology is a foundational component of the ReposiTrak Enterprise Platform and represents a major advancement in automated, end-to-end food traceability across complex supply chains.
Designed to eliminate manual processes and reduce operational burdens, Touchless Traceability™ enables organizations to achieve regulatory compliance without requiring manual case scanning or costly modifications to existing warehouse management systems (WMS). The solution delivers a streamlined, scalable approach to food traceability that aligns with evolving federal requirements.
Addressing FSMA 204 Compliance Challenges
One of the primary drivers behind the development of Touchless Traceability™ is compliance with Section 204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA 204). This regulation mandates enhanced traceability recordkeeping requirements for certain high-risk foods, requiring companies to capture and maintain detailed Key Data Elements (KDEs) throughout the supply chain.
For many organizations, meeting FSMA 204 requirements presents significant operational challenges. Businesses must generate complete and accurate KDE records across multiple trading partners, distribution centers, and retail endpoints. Traditional compliance methods often rely on additional labor, manual barcode scanning, system upgrades, and process changes—introducing friction, cost, and risk of human error.
Touchless Traceability™ directly addresses these pain points by automating the collection, correlation, and storage of traceability data without disrupting existing workflows. By embedding traceability intelligence into the enterprise platform itself, ReposiTrak enables companies to meet regulatory demands without adding new operational complexity.
How Touchless Traceability™ Works
At the core of the solution is a highly automated data ingestion and correlation engine. The system begins by securely receiving supplier shipment data that includes all required Key Data Elements, including Traceability Lot Codes (TLCs). These KDEs form the backbone of FSMA 204 compliance, ensuring that food products can be tracked and traced efficiently in the event of a recall or food safety investigation.
Once supplier shipment data is ingested, the system correlates that information with operational data generated within distribution centers. This includes:
- Receiving data at the DC
- Internal movement and inventory transfers
- Outbound shipment activity
- Store-level receiving information
By connecting these data streams automatically, Touchless Traceability™ reconstructs complete traceability chains from supplier shipping through distribution and ultimately to retail store receipt.
Importantly, this process occurs without manual scanning of cases or pallets and without requiring modifications to existing warehouse management systems. Companies can maintain their current infrastructure while layering on robust compliance capabilities.
Automated Reconstruction of the Traceability Chain
One of the most significant innovations within Touchless Traceability™ is its ability to automatically rebuild traceability relationships across multiple supply chain events.
The system seamlessly connects:
- Supplier shipment events
- Distribution center receiving events
- Distribution center shipping events
- Store receiving events
By linking these nodes in the supply chain, the platform generates complete and compliant KDE records for every traceable product movement. These records are stored within a secure, searchable environment inside the ReposiTrak Enterprise Platform.
This automated reconstruction ensures that companies can quickly respond to regulatory inquiries, audits, or recall situations with accurate and complete documentation—without relying on manual intervention.
Eliminating Operational Burden
Historically, achieving full traceability compliance has required substantial investments in labor, scanning equipment, system integrations, and WMS upgrades. For many retailers, wholesalers, and suppliers, these requirements created financial and operational barriers to compliance.
Touchless Traceability™ represents a shift away from labor-intensive compliance models. By leveraging digital supplier shipment data and correlating it with internal operational systems, the solution removes the need for additional scanning or warehouse workflow changes.
As a result, companies benefit from:
- Reduced labor costs
- Minimal disruption to warehouse operations
- Faster implementation timelines
- Lower compliance risk
- Scalable traceability infrastructure
This “touchless” approach ensures that compliance can be achieved efficiently, even across highly complex and multi-tiered supply chains.
Executive Perspective on Industry Impact
According to Randy Fields, Chairman and CEO of ReposiTrak, the technology marks a turning point for the food industry’s approach to traceability.
He described Touchless Traceability™ as a fundamental shift in how traceability can be implemented, emphasizing that embedding automated traceability directly into the enterprise platform eliminates the operational burdens that have historically made compliance both expensive and difficult.
By delivering automation, scale, and reliability within a single system, ReposiTrak aims to provide the infrastructure necessary for the food industry to meet regulatory demands while maintaining operational efficiency.
Integration Within the ReposiTrak Enterprise Platform
Touchless Traceability™ is not a standalone product but a core capability within the broader ReposiTrak Enterprise Platform. The platform already supports a wide range of regulatory compliance and supply chain management functions, including:
- Regulatory compliance management
- Document management
- Master data management
- Supplier audit tracking
- Supply chain performance monitoring
By integrating traceability directly into this ecosystem, ReposiTrak provides organizations with a single system of record for compliance and traceability requirements.
This unified approach ensures that traceability data is not siloed but instead aligned with broader compliance documentation, supplier records, and operational data—creating greater transparency and accountability across the supply chain.
Secure, Searchable, and Scalable Infrastructure
All KDE records generated by Touchless Traceability™ are stored within a secure and searchable digital environment. This ensures rapid retrieval of traceability records during regulatory inspections or recall scenarios.
The architecture is designed to scale across large retailer and supplier networks, making it suitable for national and global operations with thousands of SKUs and multiple distribution nodes.
As food supply chains continue to grow in complexity, scalable and automated solutions like Touchless Traceability™ become increasingly critical to maintaining food safety, consumer trust, and regulatory compliance.
Advancing the Future of Food Traceability
With its patent-pending status, Touchless Traceability™ represents a strategic investment in the future of digital food traceability. As regulatory requirements tighten and supply chains become more interconnected, automation will play a central role in enabling efficient compliance.
By eliminating manual scanning, reducing system modification requirements, and automating the generation of complete KDE records, ReposiTrak positions its enterprise platform as a next-generation solution for FSMA 204 compliance and beyond.
Through this innovation, the company continues to strengthen its leadership in food traceability and regulatory compliance, offering the industry a practical path toward scalable, automated, and reliable end-to-end traceability.
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