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Prepare for FSMA 204 and share traceability data with all your customers—starting now. Trace Exchange offers flexible, cost-effective ways to exchange data across your trading partner network and support compliance.
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Share data with all your customers, including:

Sysco
Walmart
Kroger
Target
Gordon Food Service
Grocery Outlet
Hy-Vee
Wood Fruitticher
Sodexo
AWG
BJs
Schnucks
Michael Lewis
Greco & Sons

Looking for your customer’s recent traceability requirements?

View Customer Communications here.

Get Started in 3 Easy Steps

Enroll

  • 1

    Choose the solution that best fits your business needs

  • 2

    Watch for emails with your login details

Get Started

  • 1

    Begin TraceApproved course

  • 2

    Login to Trace Exchange and setup your account

  • 3

    Upload your Master Product and Location Data

Connect

  • 1

    Connect with your customers in Trace Exchange

  • 2

    Send test shipments to your customers

Get Started

Trace Exchange Core for Suppliers

A cost-effective traceability solution that helps you meet FSMA 204 requirements and easily share data with all your customers.

Ready to start sharing data? Learn more.

Trace Exchange for Enterprises

A scalable, secure traceability solution that helps you gain visibility across your supply chain, monitor supplier engagement, and meet FSMA 204 requirements.

Ready to gain visibility across your supplier network?

Traceability Solutions That Meet Your Business Needs

Trace Exchange Core for Suppliers

A cost-effective traceability solution that helps you meet FSMA 204 requirements and easily share data with all your customers.

Share KDEs: Efficiently share KDEs with all your customers from one platform, reducing complexity and cost.

Generate Electronic Sortable Spreadsheets: Quickly generate electronic sortable spreadsheets with data needed for investigations and FDA traceability requests.

Easily Capture KDEs: Flexible options for capturing your FSMA 204 data. Choose the method that works best for your organization, including API, ASN, file uploads, iFoodDS data integration partners, or event capture apps.

Have Confidence in Your Data: Our compliance dashboard gives you confidence in your readiness to meet regulatory requirements.

Automatically Record Receiving CTEs and KDEs: Easily integrate with existing workflows to save time and reduce cost.

Prove Your FSMA 204 Readiness: Our FSMA 204 program will guide you to compliance — and you’ll earn a TraceApproved™ badge to demonstrate it to your customers.

Securely Store Traceability Records: Securely store shipping, receiving, transformation, initial packing, and first land-based receiver records for 2+ years.

Respond Faster to Recall Investigations: Quickly trace products backward and forward through your supply chain, minimizing product loss and reputational damage.

Manage Master Data: Store and manage your organization’s master data to streamline the process of sharing shipping KDEs with your customers.

Support Interoperability: Exchange traceability data across trading partners and systems through a platform aligned with GS1 standards.

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Trace Exchange for Enterprise Food Companies

A scalable, secure traceability solution that helps you gain visibility across your supply chain, monitor supplier engagement, and support FSMA 204 requirements.

Designed for Foodservice Operators, Grocery Retailers, and Distributors

Centralize Supplier Shipping KDEs: Access supplier shipping KDEs and traceability records in one platform to support receiving records, supply chain visibility, supplier monitoring, and investigations. 

Respond Faster to Investigations: Easily trace products backward and forward through your supply chain, minimizing disruption and supporting faster recalls. 

Automatically Record Receiving CTEs: Generate receiving records from supplier shipping data and WMS data to save time and reduce labor cost. 

Generate Electronic Sortable Spreadsheets: Quickly generate electronic sortable spreadsheets with data needed for investigations and FDA traceability requests. 

Gain Visibility into Supplier Readiness: Monitor onboarding progress, participation, data sharing, compliance, and traceability readiness across your supplier network.

Export Traceability Data: Deliver supplier shipping data to your internal systems and reporting environments. 

Share Data with All Your Customers: Share shipping KDEs with downstream customers through a single platform, reducing complexity and supporting multiple customer requirements.

Built for Interoperability: Leverage a platform aligned with GS1 standards and designed to exchange traceability data across a network of trading partners, systems, and data-sharing platforms.

Support Complex Operating Models: Manage users and permissions with organizational hierarchy and authorization tools designed for franchise, corporate, and distributed operating models.

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Your customers expect you to be ready for FSMA 204. TraceApproved™ helps you get there.

Included with Trace Exchange Core and Trace Exchange for Enterprises, TraceApproved provides expert guidance, practical training, and step-by-step support to help you implement faster, meet customer requirements, and demonstrate traceability readiness with confidence.

Optional Add-On: Share ASNs Via EDI

If you supply to Walmart, Kroger, Safeway, or Albertsons, you can share shipping data via EDI from within your Trace Exchange account.

Available as an add-on to any Trace Exchange Core subscription, after your account has been activated.
Read our FAQs to Learn More

Supplier Data Link

Need a limited option for sharing data with just one customer? Click here

Looking for more information about FSMA 204? Check out our resource guide.

FAQs

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Yes!

TraceApproved is available to everyone in your organization – once you enroll in the free trial or purchase a Trace Exchange Core subscription, you can request access for additional users here.

Learn more about TraceApproved here.

You can share your shipping KDEs with an unlimited number of customers.

If some of your customers are not part of the Trace Exchange network, we have a variety of options for sharing KDEs outside of the solution platform. 

Meet your customers’ data-sharing requirements and meet regulatory requirements with the Trace Exchange Core Solution.

The Trace Exchange Core solution will allow you to:

  • Securely capture and store shipping and receiving data
  • Easily receive KDEs from your trading partners
  • Share KDEs with an unlimited number of customers
  • Manage master product and location data
  • Traceback and forward by creating and accessing reports and dashboards
  • Generate an electronic sortable spreadsheet

TraceApproved, our traceability readiness program, is included with any Trace Exchange Core subscription.

With TraceApproved™, you get everything you need to demonstrate traceability readiness – the software, the guidance, and the proof. Learn More

Includes: 

Best-in-Class Training: Leverage interactive lessons, demos, and resources to help you fully comply with FSMA 204. 

Label Review & Compliance Assurance: Expert review of your labels ensures you’re prepared to meet industry standards and customer requirements. 

Expert Guidance: The industry’s top traceability software and FSMA 204 compliance experts will guide you on your journey. 

TraceApproved™ Badge: Earn the badge to demonstrate your company’s traceability readiness and gain a competitive edge. 

Step-by-Step Support for meeting customer data-sharing requirements. 

Full Access to Trace Exchange™ Software: Demonstrate your ability to capture and share required shipping data using the same traceability platform trusted by leading grocers and distributors. 

If you supply to Walmart or Kroger, you can share shipping data via EDI. Read our FAQs to learn more.