Tracking is able to record a specific unit or batch of products movement from the manufacturer into the supply chain circulation. Meanwhile, tracing recognizes products origin, usage, and production site by the implementation of manufacture barcodes.
The supply chain consists of supplying, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and channel distribution. The implementation of Tracking & Tracing technology such as bar-coding and RFID successfully records product information in all links of circulation. This assures information transparency and process controllable for further unification of logistic and information flow. In recent years Tracking & Tracing technology has been widely used in manufacture, commercial, transportation and distribution.
In view of tobacco industry demands, Chinasoft International took the lead in providing Tracking & Tracing solution and has successfully implemented it into cigarette production, operation and decision-making management system. It systemizes the single-dimension bar code as the information carrier, assigns unique identity for each finished cigarette product, and tracks the logistics information of the cigarette product. The system implements real-time controls for the production and operation conditions of commercial and industry enterprises in the tobacco industry. In addition, it lays a solid foundation for the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (China Tobacco Corporation) to organize the production and operation of cigarettes in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Tobacco Monopoly, providing a means and data support for the tobacco industry to make macro regulation and control effective internal supervision and administration, which greatly improves the core competitiveness of China's tobacco industry. |
