Which technology helps more in warehouse management

What is TTE?
TTE means Tracking and Tracing of Explosives. TTE is a modular solution to implement the requirements of the EU-directive 2008/43/EG and its amendment in the directive 2012/4/EU. Moreover, additional functions offer the possibility to optimize and to facilitate many in-house processes.

Background of the EU - identification directive
The directives 2008/43/EG and 2012/4/EU, also named identification directive, belong to a number of actions elaborated by the European Union that serve counter-terrorism and have been set up as result of terror attacks in the past few years. The identification directive´s aims are the unique identification and the continuous traceability of explosives for civil uses all along the whole supply chain in order to give efficient support to enforcement authorities.

Substantial challenges
The requirements of the identification directive confront affected companies with time, personnel and finances related liabilities, such as:

• Securing the unique identification of explosives in the EU by manufacturers and importers
• Guaranteeing a continuous and real-time collection of all required information
• Securing the traceability of any particular item that contains explosives
• Providing 24/7 disclosure to respective authority
• Archiving data for a minimum period of 10 years
• Providing at an early stage all relevant data between supplier and recipient of goods all along the supply chain.

Accomplishment of challenges
TTE offers the appropriate answer to these challenges by:

• Creating the unique identification codes for all individual items and packaging units through TTE-Printing
• Printing labels for small order-related quantities as well as for considerable print orders, according to the EU directives and the FEEM guidelines
• Significantly minimizing the required record times by e.g. effective in and out bookings of entire deliveries with few scanning processes
• Enabling a guaranteed information ability to competent authorities, also without personal availability
• Secure data archiving for 10 years in the TTE-Webarchive or in the local systems
• Easy, secure and fast data transfer all along the supply chain by TTE-Trustcenter.

Considerable potential for improvement by additional functions
Beyond the realization of legal requirements TTE additionally offers more possibilities to simplify the daily processes.

• Replacing the manually written stock book by an electronic register
• Creating print documents, e.g. shipment report and ADR-documents
• Guaranteeing highest data security by permanent encryption
• Using interfaces for integration to existing software (e.g. ERP)
• Realizing random sampling, retractions, return deliveries, order pickings or inventory support
• Providing individual adaptions to operational particularities (especially for TTE-Enterprise)
• Considering automatically the proof of authority and their validation
• Recording and evaluating comments of any movement
• Providing all required data for internal use.