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Today, corporations are increasingly engaging packaging technology for security solutions to deter or eliminate counterfeiting, theft, and product diversion. Why now? Company executives now understand that the ROI for added brand security through packaging can make a significant positive impact on the current bottom line, while managing the risk associated with potential future lawsuits resulting from counterfeited products. In short, good corporate governance requires the protection of brand integrity throughout the supply chain for customers, stockholders, and distributors.

Though theft percentages vary widely by industry and product, industry-wide product theft losses vary from 2% - 10% of total sales. The pharmaceutical industry, for example, reports counterfeiting rates at 10% of total sales. Most significantly, the trend is a global increase in counterfeiting.

With new, previously unavailable packaging technology security solutions, your organization can reduce or eliminate your exposure by a comparatively small investment in packaging security and supply chain management solutions.

We can help. We have experienced personnel who have become experts on current and immerging brand security technologies. Look to us to help you select and implement packaging security and supply chain management solutions. We invite you to contact us to begin a partnership toward this important endeavor!

Tracing technologies enable brand owners to mark (code) and thereby identify (trace) their products. Applications include the capability to deter and better manage counterfeiting, theft, and diversion. For example: If inter-company and further supply chain participants know that a brand is marked by lot (batch) releases and is randomly sampled, the product is less likely to be diverted, stolen, or counterfeited.
Of course, in some circumstances a brand owner will prefer to integrate the tracing mark covertly, thereby making counterfeiting more challenging, if not impossible. Additionally, a covert strategy can provide a stealth method of identifying parties involved in theft and diversion activities.

  • Anti counterfeiting – Use of overt and covert technologies. Typically at individual unit/product level.
  • Anti-theft – Use of overt and covert technologies. Typically at individual unit/product level.
  • Anti-Diversion – Use of overt and covert technologies. Typically at individual unit/product level.

Tracking product at each step within the supply chain adds security and improves inventory logistics management. Though barcodes remain the primary tracking technology, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and other competing technologies are currently being integrated into the supply-chain infrastructure. These new digital (smart) technologies offer great advantages. While companies are now implementing new technologies to track their brands, here is the expected progression for complete supply chain integration of RFID tracking technologies.

  • Stage I: Pallet Level
    Track pallets - Currently in progress and projected to be fully implemented by 2008
  • Stage II: Case Level
    Track cases - Projected to be fully implemented by 2008 - 2010
  • Stage III: Unit Level
    Track individual units/products - Projected to be fully implemented by 2010 – 2015

 

  • Security Focus – Overt Protection
  • Tamper Evident packaging
    Watermarks in paper
    Printed codes or designs
    Custom die-cutting of labels
    EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) Security Focus – Covert Protection
    Watermarks in paper
    Printed codes or designs
    “Invisible” UV light-activated ink
    “Invisible” IR light-activated ink
    “Invisible” UV light-activated embedded paper fibers
    Magnetically coded threads
  • RFID
    EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance)
    Encapsulated DNA marker/codeInventory Management Focus
    RFID
    Bar Codes