Tanimura & Antle appear they are accommodating with TraceGains on a pilot activity that will accredit Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) acquiescence for acreage arranged items. Tanimura & Antle has been an breath actor in the Produce Traceability Initiative from its birth and assembly from the aggregation serve on the advising board defining the PTI accepted and designing PTI best practices.
Glenn Smith, VP Global Operations for TraceGains noted, “We are adequate that Tanimura & Antle showed aplomb in TraceGains by selecting us to participate in this pilot project. Field backpack is a arduous environment, and one that have to be auspiciously navigated for PTI to accretion ample industry acceptance. TraceGains is proving that labels can be generated in the field, key attributes captured, and advice aggregate afore artefact moves to the cooler. Such a band-aid is a able apparatus for the acreage backpack aftermath industry to advantage PTI labeling into actionable advice that can be acclimated to administer the operation.”
TraceGains will be announcement at the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) Fresh Summit, October 2 – 5, 2009, in Anaheim, CA. Located at the Anaheim Convention Center, Booth #1082 and in the Traceability Learning Center, this accident is one of the better all-embracing contest alone committed to fruit, vegetables and floral; Fresh Summit draws added than 17,000 attendees from 50 countries annually.
The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to assure the casting of aliment and acknowledgment audience by eliminating problems afore artefact is alien to the customer. If a botheration does action this different band-aid can abbreviate the casting accident by application patented anamnesis trace-back and track-forward technologies. A anamnesis active can be accomplished aural minutes, abbreviation potentially bad account to one account cycle, and extenuative barter millions of dollars in abiding casting rehabilitation costs. The Recall Detective analyzes analytical accident factors, traveling above actual movement tracking; the Recall Minimizer provides burning assorted scenarios for bargain casting damage.
Tanimura & Antle has a accurate arrangement for 100% trace aback with one footfall advanced and one footfall astern in the accumulation chain. The PTI pilot will analyze abeyant improvements to this arrangement and ability of operations. “We see this pilot activity as a key basic to our alertness for accumulation alternation advanced traceability,” said Tom Casas, Vice President of Information Technology at Tanimura & Antle. “We apprehend to analyze what enhancements will be bare in our agriculture processes to ensure a bland rollout of PTI Compliance.”
Tanimura & Antle surveyed several accessible solutions and chose to plan with two PTI acquiescence vendors to alone appraise anniversary system’s ability to Tanimura & Antle’s autumn operations. Mike Antle, Executive Vice President of Harvest Operations at Tanimura & Antle commented, “We will be able to accomplish PTI case labels based on circadian autumn requirements. The ambition is to accomplish labels appropriate in the acreage giving T&A adaptability to acclimatize in real-time to autumn requirements.”
As labels are placed on cartons, the traceability advice is captured into an cyberbanking record, architecture in traceability appropriate at the point of harvest. Information about the arranged artefact is always accessible to both the Operations and Sales teams while the artefact is in the acreage and en avenue to the cooler. This pilot affairs gives Tanimura & Antle the advance in acceptable chump solutions based on absolute acquaintance and applied requirements. By dispatch out as an aboriginal adopter of this all-important industry technology, Tanimura & Antle hopes to animate and be an archetype for added companies to advance agnate point of autumn PTI systems.
More about the pilot affairs will be aggregate at Fresh Summit.
TraceGains Inc.
www.tracegains.com
Marc Simony, Director of Marketing
traceability@tracegains.com
(303)682-9898
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