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Track & trace

A trace built on proof.
Not on numbers.

Serialisation gives every unit a number - and a number can be read off one genuine product and printed onto a thousand fakes, each one recorded by the chain as real. Here, item-level traceability rests on a mark whose copy gives itself away. And every time anyone checks a unit - your distributor at intake, a retailer, a customer - that check writes itself to the record. No integration project required.

Every check
writes a line.

Scan a single item and its verification history opens up - who checked it, where, and when - on one screen.

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What you are looking at: one unit scanned, and every authenticity check it has ever received - who, where, when - on a single screen. No reconstruction from paperwork.

Products moving through a supply chain across multiple handovers

You can't prove
what you can't see.

Most supply chains go dark the moment product leaves your dock. Batch numbers cover pallets, not items. So when a recall, a counterfeit claim or a due-diligence audit lands, you are reconstructing the journey from paperwork - slowly, partially, and never down to the single unit.

  • A recall that pulls thousands of good units because you can't isolate the bad ones.
  • An audit you pass on trust, not on evidence.
  • A diversion you only notice once the product is already gone.

Blind spots
get expensive.

Traceability is moving from nice-to-have to legal requirement - from supply-chain due-diligence law to the EU Digital Product Passport. The gap between batch-level records and item-level proof is where the cost sits.

Over-broad recalls

Without item-level traceability, a recall sweeps up far more product than necessary - multiplying cost, waste and disruption.

Audit & compliance exposure

Due-diligence and DPP obligations expect evidence, not assurances. Gaps become findings, delays and reputational risk.

Undetected diversion

Product that leaves its intended route is invisible until it resurfaces - by then the margin and the channel control are already lost.

Slow answers

When a customer, partner or regulator asks "where has this been?", days of manual reconstruction is an answer that costs trust.

The solution

Item-level identity.
No integration.

Each unit carries a unique, cryptographically bound identity. Every time anyone verifies it - your distributor at intake, a retailer, a customs officer, an end customer - that check writes a time- and place-stamped event to the unit's record. Nobody has to install anything for you to get the data.

  • Serialised at the unit. Not batch, not pallet - every individual item has its own verifiable identity.
  • Recorded at every check. Each verification adds a time- and place-stamped event to the item's history
  • No rollout to negotiate. EPCIS chains need every partner to integrate and scan. Here the data arrives as a by-product of people checking the product is real.
See the technology in depth
A serialised product verified along its supply-chain journey

From paper trail to
provable record.

01

Pinpoint, don't sweep

Isolate the exact units affected by a defect or recall - and leave the rest of your good product on the shelf.

02

Answer audits with evidence

Produce a unit's identity and verification history on demand for due-diligence, customs and DPP requirements - in minutes, not days.

03

See where it surfaces

Compare where units are actually being checked against the markets they were allocated to - and act the moment the two diverge.

Built for chains where
proof is mandatory.

Track & trace on authentic.network runs in sectors where origin and journey are regulated or safety-critical - solar, healthcare and industrial supply.

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100%of units traceable to origin
Powered by the same product identity

Grey-market control

Turn the same route data into diversion detection across regions.

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Brand protection

Add copy-evident authenticity on top of full traceability.

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Where the other methods stop

Four ways to track.
One that can't be faked into.

Every method here can tell you something. Only one of them tells you whether the thing it is tracking is real - and does it without an integration project.

MethodItem-level historyNo partner integrationAnyone can verifyA copy shows up
ERP / warehouse system~✗✗✗
Barcode / batch number✗✓✗✗
Serialised code (EPCIS)✓✗✓✗
authentic.network✓✓✓✓

Comparison of method categories, not of individual vendors.

Common questions

No - and that is deliberate. A full EPCIS chain needs every partner to integrate and scan at every handover, which is why those projects run for years. Here, the record fills up with authenticity checks: every time anyone verifies a unit, that check is written with a time and a place. You get fewer points than a fully integrated chain, but you get them from anyone with a phone, without asking a single partner to install anything.

Serialization is the numbering: each unit gets a unique code. Track and trace is what you do with those numbers - recording where each one is scanned. Both rest on the same assumption, that the number on the product is the real one. Copy a valid number onto a counterfeit and a serialization-based chain records it as genuine. That assumption is the gap; the copy-evident mark is what closes it.

Batch tracking tells you which production run a product belongs to. authentic.network identifies the individual unit, so you can trace and act on a single item - not an entire batch - which is the difference between a precise recall and a sweeping one.

Yes. The identity layer is designed to connect to the systems you already run, adding verifiable item-level events rather than replacing your stack. The scope of integration depends on your setup and is best mapped in a short scoping call.

Because every unit carries its own identity, you can isolate exactly which items are affected instead of pulling the whole batch - and wherever one of them has since been checked, that check is on the record. It narrows the recall, cuts the cost and shortens the response.

Item-level traceability is a core part of what a Digital Product Passport must carry. The same serialised identity that powers track & trace feeds straight into DPP readiness as ESPR requirements take effect. See our Digital Product Passport hub.

Item-level traceability means every individual unit carries its own identity and its own record - not a batch number shared by thousands of items. It is the difference between knowing which production run a product came from and knowing where this exact unit has been.

RFID reads without line of sight, which is useful inside a warehouse - but it needs readers, adds cost per unit and nobody outside your operation can check anything. This runs on the smartphone camera your partners and customers already carry, so the trace does not stop at your own dock.

The identity of the unit, the time and the place of the scan. Nothing about the person scanning is needed for the trace to work, and scan data is handled under EU rules.

Yes - that is what item-level identity makes possible. Because each unit's route is recorded from origin onward, a product that surfaces where it should not can be traced back to the last authorised point it passed through.

See it on your
supply chain.

A 20-minute call is enough to map item-level traceability to your production line, your partners and your compliance needs.

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