Last year, Porsche says the trio confiscated more than 200,000 individual items, valued at nearly 60 million Euros, or $67 million. Of those items, 33,000 were spare car parts worth two million euros ($2.24 million). The rest were a mixture of memorabilia, apparel, and other various non car-related goods. Read more

Indian automotive industry is currently going through a paradigm shift and it needs to adopt digital supply chain solutions to meet the increasing product complexity and market dynamics, states a joint report published by  CII  and Ernst & Young. Titled as ' Automotive supply chain- Emerging trends for building intelligent supply chain ', the report emphasises on the impact of 'Future of Mobility' and the solutions required to be adopted by the stakeholders for that. The report says that rather than merely doing digital projects, the organisations need to be digitally operated. With the new trends like connected, autonomous and electrified cars and  shared mobility , the Indian automotive industry is about to experience a monumental change.  >>>> Read more

With at least two cases of duplicate barcodes bottles and cartons surfacing in the last few months, Delhi government has decided to rope in a government corporation to print such labels with additional security features. Senior Delhi government officials said the excise government is in talks with Security Printing and Minting Corporation India Limited (SPMCIL), which prints currency notes, to print security features-rich excise adhesive labels, which can’t be copied or duplicated.

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Dutch tax authority has invited tender for production and distribution of approximately 800 million tax stamps per year. Currently, for the manufacture of Dutch tax stamps, Dutch Customs has concluded one single Framework Agreement with one single contracting partner. This Framework Agreement will expire on 20 November 2020. The Contracting Authority views the purpose of this tender as a continuation of the tax stamp process, and its intention is to contract this tax stamp process again with one single qualified supplier for the origination and production of tax stamps, and to contract the order portal and distribution of tax stamps with one single qualified supplier.

Indian Govt rule to pave way for optional use of Microdots in vehicles to trace them, check thefts

To ensure authenticity, APIs of drugs may soon get track-and-trace codes

DGFT extends last date for implementation of track and trace system for exports of drug formulations till April 1 next year

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Colour-coded holograms to identify fuel powering vehicles

UGC to varsities: Add security features – QR code, hologram – to degrees, certificates

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Ghana introduced the new electronic coding and traceability in a bid to monitor government’s fertiliser subsidy programme and farming inputs

Jindal Stainless Limited clamps down on counterfeit market

It is estimated that over 25% of pipes and tubes sold annually in India bear the counterfeit branding of Jindal Stainless Limited. We aim to curtail this counterfeiting and capture the growing decorative P&T market in the next 2 years." For more click here

Tyre Association trial traceability technology

The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) announced the successful completion of a digital tyre tracking trial. Conducted with TRA member, Fraser Evans & Sons Ltd , and technology partner PragmatIC , the trial used RFID tags. For more click here