These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines.

These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines.

These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines.

Everest Group’s Deep Dive – Technology Awareness reports offer a comprehensive and forward-looking view into a technology’s impact, adoption prospects, and how it can shape an industry over the next four to six years. This report examines advanced materials and sensor technologies that enable traceability and trackability in global supply chains. It covers various innovations, including smart labels, intelligent packaging, quantum dot markers, IoT sensors, digital watermarks, and environmental monitoring tools, which are reshaping supply chain visibility. These technologies help industries address the growing demands for product authenticity, regulatory compliance, counterfeiting prevention, and sustainability reporting. In this report, we analyze adoption drivers, emerging applications, technology readiness levels, and barriers to scale. The report outlines strategic roadmaps, key use cases across industries, and evolving standards. The insights help supply chain, R&D, and sustainability leaders make informed technology investment decisions and future-proof their operations. Scope Geography: global Industry: food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, consumer packaged goods, agriculture, chemicals, and materials Application: supply chain transparency, product authentication, regulatory compliance, sustainability tracking, real-time monitoring, and logistics optimization Contents In this report, we examine: The traceability and trackability technologies landscape Smart materials and identification systems, including DNA markers, QD tags, spectral, and edible tagging Sensor and monitoring technologies, such as IoT sensors, GPS, environmental, optical, and thermal sensors Industry use cases and case studies across chemicals, pharma, FMCG, food, and agriculture Key adoption drivers and barriers, including regulatory shifts and implementation costs Future technology roadmaps and innovation opportunities

With increasing complexities and rapid transformation across industries, business leaders must become adept at anticipating long-term, disruptive shifts to navigate an uncertain future confidently. Our Mega Forces framework – comprising themes including business models and value network adaptations, environmental priorities, socioeconomic and geopolitical shifts, and transformative technologies – helps organizations understand systemic changes and align their strategies with the evolving business landscape. The Mega Forces: Retail Reimagined report spotlights three pivotal forces shaping the evolution of business models and value network adaptations. It outlines disruptive signals, real-world use cases across industries, long-term evolution of forces through 2040, and key considerations and critical next steps for business leaders. Scope All industries and geographies Contents In this report, we examine: Unified commerce: full integration of all retail channels, systems, and user data into one unified platform, enabling retailers to respond instantly and consistently across any touchpoint, medium, or device Meta commerce: sensory-rich, digitally immersive, and interactive retail environment where shopping blends with entertainment, social interaction, and self-expression Invisible commerce: highly automated retail journey with limited or no active customer input

These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines.

These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines.

These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines. Membership(s) Advanced SciTech

These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines. Membership(s) Advanced SciTech

These Discoveries are available only to Advanced SciTech members. For information on membership, please contact us Discoveries focus on specific science and technology innovations that address today’s critical business issues and challenges. These brief yet detailed profiles highlight innovations across the world's leading companies, start-ups, universities, institutes, and the entire R&D ecosystem and leverage the Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) framework to analyze the innovations’ rationale and possible benefits. The insights will help you understand the themes shaping science and technology development, enhance your R&D, strengthen strategies, comprehend the developer landscape, and identify best practices for your product pipelines. Membership(s) Advanced SciTech