UN/CEFACT standards for Electronic information exchange Tracking and tracing of animal and plant products Short overview over the project Started in 2013 First T&T animals and fish, published in 2016 Now T&T product, to be published in 2017

Results UN/CEFACT project Traceability of animal and plant products A generic model, structure and data formats All traceability information fits in All production chains: agricultural products, endangered species, textile industry All production chains Implementation guides

Activity diagram Business case is about asking a T&T question and retrieving the T&T data required. Retrieving of information when info is registered

Track and Trace Event recording and data retrieving What product ID and product type When read and recording date time Where read and business location Who party involved Why process / business step / disposition Event recording with only identifiers and codes = level 1 Choice of the EPCIS system, developed by GS1 Adapted by UNCEFACT With the identifiers further search for information is possible: level 2

Future state Services: discovery / search / smartphone apps retail tracking Repository Repository Repository Repository FMS ERP ERP ERP tracing Step 1 : EPCIS Proven technology + implemented in e.g Germany (meat), different sectors, GS1 Software available For each step in the proces/chain: 1 message labelling at farm sheep wool washing spinning weaving confection retail

Track and Trace Event Key information entities x TT_ Location TT_Party TT_ Processing step TT_ Animal/Plant Product TT_ Transport Movement More detailed information entities are linked to or based on these ones TT_ Transport Means Time stamp

Level 2 Data model

Issues in traceability projects Sensitive data Business partners not known Different business conditions Product batches are put together, split up or used as inputs Present information exchange from node to node A standard is one aspect, the easy part Development of a traceability chain is complicated Business operations determine the level of traceability, unless they can be adapted At present: when there is an issue with a product it takes time to reconstitute the whole supply chain

UN/CEFACT T&T standard implementation Stakeholders agree on: Who registers what information Who can acces what information Who is/are repository parties How the network of repositories will function Software is developed accordingly

Present status Standard published Tracking and Tracing of animals and fish (2016). Tracking and Tracing of animal and plant products (2017). T&T standard published, not implemented

Implementation guides Handbook on electronic business standards for agricultural trade facilitation (Heiner Lehr, UNECE 2016) Guide for best practice in the set up of traceability projects in cross border trade (Andrew Baxter, UNNExT 2016) Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) implementation guideline GS1, 2015

To be done Implementation guidelines Compatibility EPCIS – UNCEFACT T&T textile supply chains? Compatibility EPCIS – UNCEFACT Connectivity EPCIS – UNCEFACT is complex in implementation Additional work on the first level of the standard + implementation guidelines

Contact Frans van Diepen (Domain coordinator) frans.vandiepen@rvo.nl Niki Dieckmann (Project T&T) niki.dieckmann@rvo.nl