What does a traceability gap cost you — and what do you save with osapiens.
Traceability has two sides: the retailer protecting its shelves, and the supplier protecting its listing. Select your perspective, enter your numbers — and see exactly what full traceability is worth to your business.
What you'll need — the numbers behind your value case
These are the inputs behind the calculation. Real figures give the most accurate result — where a number isn't known, a best estimate works fine.
Products / SKUs tracked through your supply chain
Suppliers delivering them
Revenue at risk — retailer: revenue exposed in a recall/incident; supplier: annual revenue with your key retail customer
FTEs on traceability, recall readiness & audit requests
Annual external spend on audits, consultants, legacy tooling
Why it matters: these numbers define the size of the problem — and they are the basis your management will ask about anyway.
Size of the problem
pick your perspective
Perspective
Retailer: a recall you cannot scope. Supplier: a listing you cannot afford to lose. Same platform, two value cases.
Scale & exposure
Every article that needs a verifiable chain of custody — fresh, frozen, private label, everything with a batch.
SKUs
Producers, processors, importers — every link that has to answer when a batch goes wrong.
suppliers
A recall you cannot scope precisely means clearing whole shelves, categories, regions.
€ in million
Internal effort & external spend
the 50% levers
The 50% levers
Tracing batches by phone and Excel, preparing IFS/BRC audits, answering customer questionnaires.
Lose the listing: a fish supplier to a major retailer loses the contract over one traceability failure — half the company's revenue, gone with one delisting letter.
Hours, not weeks: recalls scoped in hours stay an operations issue; recalls scoped in weeks become headlines.
2 · Real value — your current spend
Internal team (traceability, recalls & audits)
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External audits, consultants & legacy tooling
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Total annual cost of traceability today—
Savings with osapiens
Biggest value driver
Internal effort automated away
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External spend reduced
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osapiens investment — AE fills in
Annual SaaS license
− €/yr
Net annual benefit (from year 2)—
3 · Other benefits — not priced in, but real
Recall precision. Scope incidents to the exact batch in hours — protect your shelf revenue from blanket recalls.
Audit-ready, always. IFS, BRC, customer audits — the chain of custody is one click, not one week of preparation.
Chain transparency to source. Farm, vessel, lot — the full chain on one platform, shared with exactly who needs it.
Customer trust as a sales argument. Verified traceability wins tenders — retailers prefer the supplier they can audit in real time.
How this is calculated
Internal effort: FTE loaded cost €/year × 50% reduction through digital batch tracing, recall scoping & one-click audit answers.
