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LEVEL 3 SERIALIZATION, TRACK-AND-TRACE AND AGGREGATION MANAGEMENT

VVTechnologiesINC’s Open SiteMaster (OSM) is a plant-level Level 3 (L3) serialization and track-and-trace management platform designed to centralize and coordinate serialization, aggregation, production, and reporting activities across manufacturing and packaging operations.

Operating as a central plant hub, OSM connects packaging-line systems (L2) with ERP, MES, and enterprise serialization platforms (L3/L4). It manages the exchange of production orders, serial numbers, packaging data, and compliance information between different systems, providing a unified environment for managing plant-level serialization operations.

OSM enables manufacturers to maintain greater visibility and control over serialization and aggregation activities while supporting configurable workflows that can be adapted to individual production processes, business requirements, and market regulations.

KEY BENEFITS

• Centralized plant-level management: Provides a single platform for coordinating serialization and aggregation activities across multiple packaging lines.
• Web-based accessibility: Enables authorized users to access the system through a web interface, with user roles and permissions controlling available functions and information.
• Centralized configuration: Allows packaging-line configurations, recipes, workflows, and production parameters to be managed from a central location, reducing repetitive setup activities.
• Configurable business workflows: Supports customizable workflows for activities such as rework, batch processing, quality-control operations, exception handling, and interrupted production flows.
• Efficient data management: Maintains relevant production and serialization information at the plant level while minimizing unnecessary data exchanges with enterprise-level systems.
• Flexible integration: Designed to communicate with Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 systems through standard interfaces, APIs, and web services, supporting integration across heterogeneous manufacturing environments.
• Scalable architecture: Supports multiple packaging lines, users, products, markets, and production workflows from a centralized platform.

CORE FEATURES

PROCESS ORDER MANAGEMENT

OSM can receive or retrieve production and packaging orders from ERP/MES systems and make the required orders and production information available for execution at the plant and packaging-line levels.

SERIAL NUMBER MANAGEMENT

The platform supports different serialization schemes and coding requirements, including SGTIN, SSCC, and configurable serial-number formats.

It can support commonly used identification and barcode structures, including GS1 Application Identifiers, Data Matrix, and market-specific coding requirements.

Serial numbers can be managed using configurable allocation approaches such as:

• Sequential allocation
• Random allocation
• Pre-generated or pre-randomized serial numbers
• Shuffled serial-number allocation
• Local serial-number generation where required

The system can also maintain serial-number availability and replenish serial-number pools based on configured thresholds and production requirements.

SERIALIZATION AND EPCIS REPORTING

OSM collects and manages serialization information generated during production and packaging activities. It can provide plant-level reports covering areas such as:

• Batch reconciliation
• Production performance
• Inspection results
• Serialization status
• Aggregation information
• Audit records
• Production and packaging activities

The platform can prepare and exchange relevant serialization information with enterprise-level systems and EPCIS repositories, supporting end-to-end traceability and regulatory reporting requirements.

PRODUCTION MASTER DATA AND RECIPES

OSM provides centralized management of production master data and packaging recipes.

Production parameters can be sourced from ERP/MES systems, plant-level master data, or a combination of both. This enables manufacturers to configure product-specific requirements, packaging parameters, and process settings according to production needs.

CENTRALIZED LINE CONFIGURATION

OSM can act as a central configuration point for connected packaging lines. Authorized users can manage:

• Product and packaging recipes
• Batch-flow configurations
• Production workflows
• Customer and market-specific configurations
• Process triggers
• Aggregation and palletization steps
• Report configurations
• Serialization parameters
• Exception and rework workflows

This centralized approach helps reduce configuration duplication and provides greater consistency across multiple packaging operations.

CONTROL YOUR PLANT-LEVEL SERIALIZATION OPERATIONS

VVTechnologiesINC’s Open SiteMaster is designed to provide a centralized foundation for serialization, aggregation, track-and-trace, workflow management, and production-data coordination.

By connecting packaging lines with plant and enterprise systems, OSM helps manufacturers achieve improved data visibility, operational control, traceability, serialization accuracy, regulatory reporting, and integration flexibility across their manufacturing and packaging environment.