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Your customers want you to connect with them on the iFoodDS Trace Exchange™ network to meet regulatory compliance requirements. Trace Exchange offers flexible, cost-effective options for sharing data with your customers, receiving data from your suppliers, and complying with FSMA 204.
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Trace Exchange Options for Suppliers

Trace Exchange Core

A cost-effective compliance solution that will enable your organization to efficiently meet FSMA 204 requirements and share data with all your customers.

Share KDEs: Effortlessly share KDEs with all your customers from one platform, reducing complexity and cost.

Traceback and Forward: Gain supply chain visibility through comprehensive reports and dashboards.

Easily Capture KDEs: Flexible options for capturing your FSMA 204 data. Choose the method that works best for your organization, including API, ASN, flat file, iFoodDS data integration partners, or event capture apps.

Generate Electronic Sortable Spreadsheets: Quickly generate electronic sortable spreadsheets with data needed by FDA for FSMA 204 compliance.

Automatically Record Receiving CTEs and KDEs: Easily integrate with existing workflows and systems to save time and reduce cost.

Have Confidence in Your Data: Our compliance dashboard gives you confidence in your readiness to meet regulatory requirements.

Securely Store KDEs: Securely store data essential for FSMA 204 compliance (shipping, receiving, transformation, initial packing, and first land-based receiver CTEs).

Prove Your FSMA 204 Readiness: Our experts and FSMA 204 program will guide you to compliance — and you’ll earn a TraceApproved™ badge to demonstrate it to your customers.

Manage Master Data: Store and manage your organization’s master data to streamline the process of sharing shipping KDEs with your customers.

Respond Faster to Recalls: Avoid costs related to product loss or litigation, and protect your brand reputation.

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Trace Exchange Guided Onboarding

Free for a limited time!

Quickly get up and running with help from our Trace Exchange experts. We'll jump start your traceability journey so you can comply with your customers’ requirements and FSMA 204. This service is free with a Trace Exchange Core subscription for a limited time only. Service includes three 30-minute sessions with a solution expert covering:

Account access and setup

How to connect your customers and share your shipping data

Master product and location data uploads

How to activate your own supplier network (if applicable)

Shipping event data upload options and integration testing

Expert review of key documents in accordance with FSMA 204 requirements, including your traceability plan and case and pallet labels

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Trace Exchange Jump Start

Get a jump start on traceability in 3 easy steps. With Trace Exchange, you can easily manage your traceability data and share it with all your customers.

Enroll

  • 1

    Review the benefits of Trace Exchange

  • 2

    Enroll today and complete checkout

  • 3

    Review on-demand resources and prepare to get started

Get Started

  • 1

    Schedule your first Guided Onboarding session

  • 2

    Setup your Trace Exchange account

  • 3

    Upload your Master Product and Location Data

Connect

  • 1

    Connect with your customers in Trace Exchange

  • 2

    Send test shipments to your customers

  • 3

    Validate your case and pallet labels

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Supplier Data Link

Need a limited option for sharing data with just one customer? Click here

Looking for more information about FSMA 204? Check out our resource guide.

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You can share your shipping KDEs with an unlimited number of customers.

If some of your customers are not part of the Trace Exchange network, we have a variety of options for sharing KDEs outside of the solution platform. 

Meet your customers’ data-sharing requirements and meet regulatory requirements with the Trace Exchange Core Solution.

The Trace Exchange Core solution will allow you to:

  • Securely capture and store shipping and receiving data
  • Easily receive KDEs from your trading partners
  • Share KDEs with an unlimited number of customers
  • Manage master product and location data
  • Traceback and forward by creating and accessing reports and dashboards
  • Generate an electronic sortable spreadsheet

If your organization has its own network of suppliers, you will need to capture their shipping KDEs in order to generate your own receiving KDEs in compliance with FSMA 204.

iFoodDS offers supplier network and onboarding solutions for organizations looking to easily capture and gain visibility into required traceability data from their suppliers.

Our Guided Onboarding Service is included with any Trace Exchange Core subscription purchased on or after May 28, 2025. 

Guided Onboarding is designed to help you get up and running quickly with help from our Trace Exchange experts. Let us jump start your traceability journey so you can comply with your customers’ requirements and FSMA 204. 

Service includes three 30-minute sessions with a solution expert covering: 

  • Account access and setup 
  • Master product and location data uploads 
  • Shipping event data upload options and integration testing 
  • How to connect your customers and share your shipping data 
  • How to activate your own supplier network (if applicable) 
  • Expert review of key documents in accordance with FSMA 204 requirements, including your traceability plan and case and pallet labels 

You can also view our self-guided demo.