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Tobacco traceability: from tax stamp to retail pack
Tracing tobacco from the moment tax stamps are delivered to the manufacturer until the pack goes on sale, and being able to verify that the packs reaching kiosks are genuine.
My role: Technical Product Manager, Casa de Moneda Argentina S.A.U.
The problem
The project involved tobacco tax collection and full product traceability, from the moment Casa de Moneda, which produces the tax stamps, delivers them to the manufacturer until the pack goes on sale. It also had to be possible to verify that the packs reaching kiosks were genuine and not counterfeit.
Decisions and trade-offs
One solution per type of user: two mobile apps and a role-based web portal
We built a mobile app for tax collectors, another for end consumers and a web portal with distinct roles for the tobacco manufacturer, ARCA and Casa de Moneda as the producer of the tax stamps. The solution made it possible to verify that the packs reaching kiosks were genuine.