SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
SOLID FOUNDATION FOR A DISRUPTION-FREE SUPPLY CHAIN
Imbedding principles of sustainability in your supply chain strategy requires balancing Environmental, Social, Governance and Compliance goals. Here’s how we can help your business enhance environmental responsibility, ensure ethical operations, and drive regulatory compliance while rolling-out innovations and long-term resilience:
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ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES (E)
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Supply chain digital twin – Describe flow model from raw materials to customer delivery and identify blind spots of your ESG reporting resulted from poor supplier data integration, especially regarding carbon footprint.
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Supplier Environmental Compliance – Ensuring partners meet sustainability criteria such as carbon reduction goals.
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Carbon Footprint Reduction – Implementing carbon accounting, offset programs, and energy-efficient transportation.
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Green Logistics & Transportation – Optimizing routes, switching to electric/hybrid vehicles, and utilizing alternative fuels.
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Sustainable Packaging – Using recyclable, biodegradable, or reusable materials for your intralogistics to minimize waste.
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Waste Reduction & Reverse Logistics – Minimizing production waste and developing take-back schemes for end-of-life products.
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Water & Energy Conservation – Implementing energy-efficient warehouses and production facilities.
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Circular Economy Practices – Encouraging product reuse, refurbishment, and recycling programs.
SOCIAL STRATEGIES (S)
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Fair Labor & Ethical Sourcing – Creating safe working conditions, ethical supplier relationships.
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Diversity in Supply Chain – Encouraging diverse supplier networks
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Local Sourcing & Nearshoring – Reducing transportation emissions and supporting local economies.
GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES (G)
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Digital Product Passport (DPP) – Implementing DPP to track product origin, materials, and sustainability impact.
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Supply Chain Serialization – Using unique identifiers to enhance traceability and reduce counterfeiting.
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Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency – Ensuring secure, immutable records of product origin and transactions.
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Sustainability Audits – Conducting independent sustainability assessments across the supply chain.
SERIALISATION IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN
Serialization in the supply chain involves assigning unique identifiers to individual products (SKUs) or packaging units (Pallets, Cartons...), enabling precise tracking of material flow. Advanced serialization technologies often imply usage of EAN-128 barcodes, QR and DM codes, NFC chips and RFID tags, which can be scanned at various checkpoints to provide real-time data on product location and status.
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Traceability systems, supported by serialization, allow companies to monitor the movement and history of goods, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and others.
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The integration of serialization improves transparency and efficiency in supply chains, reducing the risk of counterfeiting, theft, and diversion, particularly in industries like pharmaceuticals, food, electronics, fashion and others. It helps businesses respond more effectively to recalls, enabling the identification and removal of affected products with minimal disruption to the supply chain. Unique product identification helps governments monitor and combat counterfeiting, smuggling, and tax evasion, leading to increased revenue collection and economic protection, streamline customs processes, improve regulatory enforcement, and ensure compliance with international trade standards, boosting global trade efficiency. Serialization enables Data-Driven Policy Making which generates valuable data on product flows, usage, and disposal patterns, aiding governments in making informed decisions on industrial policies, waste management, and economic development strategies.
END-TO-END PRODUCT DIGITALIZATION
ACCENTIS helps to comply with Product Serialization and Digital Product Passport (DPP). We advise on how to design business processes and integrate multiple solutions allowing robust serialization. Our approach enables transparency and full product traceability for your supply chain. We bridge physical products and digital assets.
MULTILEVEL REQUIREMENTS
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Audit company readiness
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Serialization blueprint
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Digital Product Passport (DPP) roadmap
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Integration with Suppliers and Customers
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Target process definition
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Change management
SERIALIZATION PROCESS
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Automation process design
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Serialization equipment selection
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Process change management
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Integration of equipment with IT-solutions
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Data flow definition
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Implementation support
TRACEABILITY SOLUTIONS
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Track & trace portal
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Mobile applications
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Data exchange (PLM, ERP, WMS, TMS...)
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Delivering systems evolution
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Integration with customs
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Compliance with regulations
DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORT READINESS ASSESMENT
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is more than just a compliance exercise—it’s an opportunity to enhance transparency, build customer trust, drive innovation, and gain a competitive edge. That’s why we’ve developed a structured approach to guide your company through the DPP journey, ensuring you maximize its value. We help you transform this regulatory requirement into a strategic advantage.
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Our readiness assessment program enables you to:
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Deep Dive into DPP Knowledge – First, we ensure your internal teams are fully informed. Knowledge is power, and preparation is key!
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Uncover Added Value & Opportunities – Imagine enhanced traceability, improved customer relationships, increased brand loyalty and sales, product authenticity, a stronger brand reputation, and new circular business models. We investigate and define the unique value DPP can bring to your organization.
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Establish a Clear & Actionable Roadmap – Finally, we collaborate with you to create a practical, phased roadmap for DPP implementation. This includes defining scope and data requirements, identifying necessary tools and technologies, and setting realistic timelines.
OUR DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORT ECOSYSTEM
We are a vendor-agnostic and solution-independent consulting company that bridges customer requirements with the best providers to deliver supply chain integration expertise. Through our extensive network of IT solution providers, we ensure access to the most suitable technologies and innovations tailored to each client’s unique needs. Our collaborative approach enables seamless integration of cutting-edge solutions and latest DPP technologies to maximize efficiency, scalability, and long-term value for your businesses.
APPROACH BASED ON DECENTRALIZED BLOCKCHAIN
By leveraging blockchain, we can ensure the authenticity and immutability of product lifecycle data across all stages of the supply chain. Our approach enables transparency and full product traceability for your supply chain IT-landscape and seamless integration with existing ERP, WMS, TMS, POS and other IT solutions, enabling real-time data sharing. We bridge physical products and digital assets.
PROVEN TRACK OF SERIALIZATION COMPLIANCE
Since 2016 ACCENTIS assures that clients adopt supply chain standards of global traceability, serialization and transparency. On the early stages we were helping supply chain and retail companies to implement standard EDI messages, Standard Shipping Container Code (SSCC) and lot/serial number tracking. By 2020 we have completed our first global serialization project for one of the European Fashion retailers. The scope covered France, China and Russia.
