EPCIS: give every product a history.

01

Answer operational questions, not just count scans

Give operations teams a route from a serialized product to its recorded events and packaging relationships. Investigate a unit’s history, inspect carton membership, follow shipments or support a recall investigation using the evidence available to the tenant.

• What events have been recorded for this unit?
• Which case or pallet is it associated with?
• Which shipments and affected products need investigation?

02

Use the platform you already manage

EPCIS work builds on AIQR’s existing track-and-trace services and SupplyChainEvent records. Product, batch, code and tenant context remain part of the platform, alongside permissions, subscriptions and administrative controls. It is not a separate QR database or a replacement for the ERP.

03

From verified factory facts to cloud history

The planned Gateway integration captures business events locally, delivers them asynchronously and maps them centrally. Initial scope is commissioning from qualifying physical verification and aggregation from validated carton closure. Printer acknowledgement alone is not proof that a mark was applied. Shipping and receiving require their own authoritative evidence.

04

Keep supply-chain evidence separate from marketing activity

A consumer opening a product page is not automatically a commissioning, shipping or receiving event. Scan analytics and loyalty remain separate workflows. Detailed manufacturing history should be permission-controlled; a public QR is not permission to disclose internal production records.

05

Define the exchange contract before rollout

An implementation review establishes identifier formats, event semantics, location data, corrections, retention and partner access. Existing export and validation helpers are a starting point, not independent certification or proof that every downstream system will accept every event.