The fashion and textile industry’s leading platform for supply chain traceability and compliance, TrusTrace, is pleased to announce that it has joined Textile Exchange’s test pilot project to assess a multiparty Trackit™ system.
A major step toward improving traceability and transparency in the textile and apparel supply chain, the trial is scheduled to operate through 2025. The project’s goal is to evaluate how well an interoperable traceability framework works on various technological platforms. It is intended to lessen the load on supply chain managers while preserving a robust and reliable standards framework that can be adjusted to a changing legislative environment.
Contributing to the Trackit™ pilot project
The TrusTrace platform supports a variety of enterprise systems and data formats and was developed to increase interoperability. The platform collected primary data from over 60,000 vendors on over 12.9 million international transactions for over 1.2 billion units in 2024.
The capacity of TrusTrace to compile, verify, and standardize supply chain data from multiple ecosystems guarantees that brands have access to current, high-quality data, which is essential for making well-informed decisions to control supply chain and brand risk, maintain compliance, and promote more environmentally friendly practices. The test pilot supports TrusTrace’s mission to enable brands to understand, validate, and enhance the effect of their supply chain.
Unlocking the Benefits of Digitized Supply Chains
The Trackit™ test pilot aims to not only analyze interoperability of a multiparty system; but also to provide a foundation for supply chain innovation by enabling:
- Efficient data sharing: Streamlining collaboration across diverse stakeholders, from suppliers to brands.
- Informed decision-making: Providing brands with real-time visibility into their supply chains to address environmental and social risks effectively.
- Credible sustainability reporting: Ensuring brands can meet emerging legislative and regulatory requirements with robust and verified data.
“Interoperability is key to a future where supply chains are traceable, circular and fair. The Trackit™ test pilot brings the industry closer to a shared ecosystem where technology providers complement rather than compete, ensuring better outcomes for brands, suppliers, and the planet. TrusTrace is honored to contribute to this exciting project, and contribute with our vast experience in interoperability at scale,” said Shameek Ghosh, CEO and Co-founder of TrusTrace.
A Step Toward Systemic Change
An essential first step toward a more cooperative traceability system is the Trackit™ test pilot project. This program intends to enable brands and supply chain partners to accomplish challenging sustainability targets and manage supply chain risk and compliance by cutting down on redundancy and coordinating technological systems.
About TrusTrace
TrusTrace offers a market-leading platform for supply chain traceability and compliance that enables brands and suppliers around the world to standardize how supply chain and material traceability data is captured, digitized and shared.
Through its AI-enhanced platform, TrusTrace empowers brands to gather and validate primary data from their supply chains, so they can know, prove and improve their impact. The data can be used for risk management, compliance, product claims, footprint calculations, the ability to confidently and easily share data about product origin and impact, and much more.
TrusTrace is leading global-scale traceability programs for many of the world’s largest and most ambitious brands and is called out as a Top Innovator for supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the World Economic Forum. The company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in India, France, Germany and the US. Please visit www.trustrace.com to learn more.
