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
Every incident is a supply chain disruption and a regulatory risk, the pattern auditors and retail partners will ask about next.
incidents
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 - Qualitative assessment
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.
