TraceLink OPUS, which stands for Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions, is a digital supply network creation platform designed specifically for the life sciences and healthcare supply chain. It is built on the TraceLink network, which connects over 291,000 trading partners globally, making it the world's largest end-to-end digital network for intelligent supply chain orchestration.
Product Overview and Key Benefits OPUS is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables organizations to build and run interoperable, integrated multienterprise applications. It is designed to digitalize processes that span across multiple companies, driving greater resiliency, agility, and collective intelligence in the supply chain.
Key benefits include:
- Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone™: A multi-modal B2B integration architecture allows customers to integrate once and seamlessly interoperate with the entire TraceLink network.
- Accelerated Digitalization: Provides a no-code/low-code development environment for business users and IT teams to rapidly design, deploy, and scale multienterprise solutions.
- Collective Intelligence: Gathers, integrates, and analyzes data across the network to power real-time insight generation, enabling better planning and proactive decision-making to prevent supply disruptions and alleviate product shortages.
- Compliance: Serves as the foundation for solutions that help companies meet global regulatory requirements, including the U.S. DSCSA and various international compliance mandates (e.g., Brazil, UAE, Russia).
Main Features and Capabilities
- No-code/Low-code Development: OPUS Solution Designer and TraceLink Development Environment allow for easy customization of user experiences, data models, and workflows.
- Network Management Services: Provides curation services to ensure a trusted foundation for building digital networks.
- Integrated Solution Suite: OPUS works in conjunction with other TraceLink solutions:
- MINT (Multienterprise Information Network Tower): Links partners and automates multienterprise supply chain transactions.
- POET (Process Orchestration for Empowered Teams): Mobilizes teams for shared, secure, peer-to-peer collaboration and rapid issue resolution.
- SPI (Serialized Product Intelligence): Provides real-time visibility into serialized product movements for inventory reconciliation and compliance.
- API Access: Provides access to APIs, data models, and information for advanced development and integration.
Target Users and Use Cases
- Target Users: Supply Chain Leaders, IT Teams, Finance Teams, Commercial Teams, and Business Users across the life sciences and healthcare ecosystem.
- Use Cases: End-to-end supply chain orchestration, global regulatory compliance and reporting, resolving DSCSA compliance exceptions, managing product shortages and supply disruptions, and partner collaboration.