Trackway in action

Trackway solutions include

• Real time asset or people tracking
• Real time events, alerts and messages
• Product attachments (documents, pics, sheets, etc.)
• Product information management and delivery
• Proven security, confidentiality, integrity and availability
• Proven scalability
• Supports RFID, barcode, and other identification methods
• Supports existing barcode and RFID coding standards
• Supports hardware from all major RFID hardware manufacturers
• Supports any JDBC compatible relational database
• WWAI Server (WWAI certified)
• Available for Windows and UNIX environments

Easy & fast implementation

Trackway turns your supply chain truly transparent due to a fast implementation process and effectively shared information. The system can be set-up within days. Information within and between organisations can be managed even without an ERP to ERP integration.

Proven technology

Trackway is technology-independent software with an excellent support for various technologies. Best results are achieved by combining the current high-end tracking and positioning technologies such as RFID, GPS and WLAN positioning to existing technologies such as barcodes.

Trackway uses an advanced P2P network model to enable instant and safe information sharing within and between organisations. Trackway can be relied upon even if some of your partners are not able to participate in your value network.

The concrete value add of a Trackway solution

1. Intercompany real time integration between ERP systems is a very difficult and long operation. Therefore it is not done so often. Rather, EDI type of offline communication is used.

• On the other hand logistics improvement today requires end to end real time visibility though the whole value chain, connecting many companies.
• Therefore Trackway with its easier real time visibility is a valuable proposition.

2. In large value chains the transactions will easily grow quite high. Trackway architecture with its distributed processing model is therefore very good.

• Single point processing can easily be overloaded with higher transactions per day.

3. Automated, object specific exception handling is a highly efficient and effective means of communicating exceptions to specific partners in your value chain.

4. Asynchronous communication with our P2P communications is better than synchronous communication when the time stamps emerge in wrong order. The ability to correct or add time stamp information afterwards with incomplete readings (lorry readers etc) is easy with Trackway.

5. In (for example) an SAP system, item level transactions are handled through a predetermined planning structure. Shipping plans, shipment received notices etc.

• Now, if you have a disturbance in this kind of planned architecture, it requires very heavy processing to calculate the correction in item level.
• In an SAP system you need to keep the whole planning structure in the computer’s central memory which stalls the system in a high transaction environment.
• Trackway in much better in this handling of the real world in item level, rather than in the planning level. So with Trackway it is possible, at item level, to track real world events and objects in near real time. If you add the distributed processing capability, the expectation is to be able to handle quite high transaction counts total with all Trackway points together.

Trackway benefits

• The Trackway solution enables real-time value chain visibility. Business-critical information can be shared within an organization and between partners.
• Trackway is technology-independent software with an excellent support for various technologies.
• Trackway uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network model. This decentralized approach is light and empowers each player in the value chain.
• Trackway is fast and inexpensive to install and use. The payback time for the investment is short.