Tech.AWARDS – sponsored by Google Cloud Celebrating the greatest innovations in retail technology Operated by- Retail Week ¦ WORLD RETAIL CONGRESS – London 13th Sept, 2018 We are excited to announce that Track Record Global (TRG) has been shortlisted by the Tech.AWARDS for its ground-breaking Trackvision software for Product Technical File (PTF). This software service…
It is clear to most of us that we live on a planet with finite resources. Although we all live within a strange paradox which assumes modern day economies can grow endlessly with an insatiable appetite for material resources. Currently we are showing few signs of decoupling economic growth from resource use; unless this decoupling…
Ever experienced the frustration of lacklustre customer service? Ever felt that the person on the other line was not really listening? Or wondered why they requested meaningless or irrelevant information? At TRG, we dislike poor customer service just as much as you do. In fact, it is our mission to make your life as simple…
(Image courtesy of cooldesign at FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Machine learning is a hot topic in the technology sector and its applications continue to change the way business is done. By analysing patterns and consistencies in a “teaching set” of data, machine learning can be used to solve many problems without (or with very little) human supervision. Machine…
The big international, independent, accredited third party inspection companies have facilitated international trade for hundreds of years. They have been the objective eyes and ears of distant importers – ensuring that products manufactured many time zones away from the final client where what was specified in the contract between the tier 1 supplier and the…
As someone who has studied economics and been an academic publisher of economics, I’m fascinated about how little the world we live in seems to resemble the world created by economists in their theoretical models. These models traditionally assume perfect competition, perfect information, and rational behavior on the part of buyers and sellers. The market…
Retailers and distributors have to cope with more risk in their supply chains (in terms of product and supplier performance), but increasingly have less technical capacity and financial resources to manage this – call it a ‘double squeeze’ . In January, 2017, Track Record Global ran a seminar at the Saïd Business School, Oxford ,…
Beyond tier 2 suppliers – what are the options for qualifying risks? Responsible companies have always been concerned about what makes up the products that they sell to their customers and how those ingredients or components got there. What are the risks of ‘bad things’ being included in traded goods or ‘bad things’ happening as…
Over the last few weeks some important supply chain risks have again come to the fore. A range of initiatives are however are addressing them. Slaves in the supply chain Under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, every company with a turnover of more that £36m and a footprint in the UK, has to produce an…
In its weekly overview of its Rapid Exchange of Information System (RAPEX), the EU has produced the following report on the products that have recently been withdrawn, recalled or banned from the European market. The RAPEX system covers non-food products posing a risk to consumer health and safety, and highlights the commercial importance of product…