ftrace: the community platform for supply chain transparency – a company of osapiens & GS1 Germany ftrace improves efficiency and trust of the entire supply chain by standardizing industries and enabling companies to share transparency information on batch level: A cross-sector traceability solution fully based on GS1 standards. ftrace is an end-to-end traceability community solution provided by ftrace GmbH, a company of osapiens and GS1 Germany. The core of the ftrace approach is to capture and share event based traceability data. Based on this, a variety of value adding applications & services such as supply chain visualization, end consumer information, business analytics and fresh counter traceability are provided for retailers, brand owners and manufacturers.