Tanimura & Antle Launches Two PTI Trials

Tanimura & Antle announced that the company is collaborating with TraceGains and RedLine Solutions on two separate pilot projects that will enable Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) compliance for field-packed items, according to a release from the company. Tanimura & Antle has been an active participant in PTI from its inception and representatives from the company serve on the advisory committee defining the PTI standard and designing PTI best practices.

Tanimura & Antle has a proven system for 100 percent traceback with one step forward and one step backward in the supply chain. The PTI pilot will identify potential improvements to this system and efficiency of operations.

Tanimura & Antle surveyed several available solutions and chose to work with two PTI compliance
vendors to individually evaluate each system’s adaptability to Tanimura & Antle’s harvest operations. The company will be able to generate PTI case labels based on daily harvest requirements. The goal is to generate labels right in the field giving flexibility to adjust in real-time to harvest requirements.

As labels are placed on cartons, the traceability information is captured into an electronic record, building in traceability right at the point of harvest. Information about the packed product is continually available to both the operations and sales teams while the product is in the field and en route to the cooler.