Updates

2025-03-28 - Q1 2025

New Tatmeen release with the following updates:

  1. System Performance Improvements: The system's overall performance has been significantly optimized to ensure smoother operations and a more responsive user experience. Key enhancements include improved stock reporting mechanisms, enabling faster data retrieval and minimizing latency. Additionally, system stability has been reinforced to prevent unexpected slowdowns, ensuring seamless performance during peak usage periods.
  1. Technical Guide Updates: The Technical Guide has undergone a comprehensive update to provide detailed and structured documentation on the Sampling Event process. These updates include step-by-step instructions, definitions of key terms, and examples of best practices, making it easier for users to understand and follow the process correctly.
  1. User Interface Enhancements: Multiple refinements have been made to the user interface to enhance workflow efficiency and deliver a more seamless and intuitive experience. These updates include better layout organization, improved button placements, and optimized navigation paths to reduce user effort. By streamlining interactions and minimizing unnecessary clicks, these enhancements contribute to faster task completion and a more user-friendly system overall.
  1. Location Summary in Partner Master: A new Location Summary section has been introduced within the Partner Master module to provide users with a quick and clear overview of stock movement. This section displays near real-time information on Current, In-Transit, and Dispensed stock, allowing users to monitor inventory levels efficiently. By consolidating this data in one view, stakeholders can make faster and more informed decisions regarding stock allocation and distribution
  1. URN Format Support in Product Verification API: The Product Verification API has been upgraded to support Uniform Resource Name (URN) format, enhancing its flexibility and compatibility with external systems. This improvement allows for more standardized integration with various tracking and traceability solutions, ensuring seamless data exchange across different platforms. Organizations can now leverage the URN format for improved system interoperability and enhanced product verification processes.
  1. Batch Upload Limit for Error Prevention: To minimize data entry errors and enhance system reliability, a new restriction has been introduced for batch file uploads. Users can now upload a maximum of five (5) batches per file, reducing the likelihood of incorrect or incomplete data submissions.
  1. Enhanced Error Messaging: System error messages have been revised and refined to provide clearer, more descriptive, and actionable guidance when issues occur. These enhancements help users quickly understand the nature of an error, identify its root cause, and take appropriate corrective actions.
  1. In-Transit Status Display in Product Verification: The Product Verification screen now clearly displays In-Transit status for relevant products, ensuring users have full visibility into stock movement. Additionally, the system now includes information on both the Source and Destination GLN (Global Location Number), enabling better tracking of shipments and inventory transfers.
  1. Password Visibility Toggle: A new password visibility toggle feature has been introduced for user convenience and accuracy. Users can now choose to view the password they enter during Registration, Login, and Password Change processes by enabling a visibility option. This enhancement reduces input errors, ensuring that users enter their credentials correctly, leading to fewer failed login attempts and improved user experience.
  1. In-Transit Product Verification with Modified Lot Numbers: The system now allows verification of In-Transit products, even if the Lot Number has been modified. This update is particularly useful for logistics and supply chain operations where lot number adjustments may occur due to repackaging or relabelling. The verification is performed based on the Destination GLN, ensuring accurate tracking and validation of products even after such modifications.
  1. Permit Search via GTIN or Serial Number: A new feature has been introduced to facilitate faster Import Permit searches during the clearance process. Inspectors can now locate import permits by either scanning the Product GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) or manually entering the Serial Number. This improvement eliminates manual search inefficiencies, accelerates clearance workflows, and reduces processing time at customs and regulatory checkpoints.
  1. Event Permissions for Expired Products: The system now allows specific controlled actions to be performed on Expired Products, ensuring compliance with regulatory and operational policies. The permitted actions include:
    1. Pack: Enables the bundling of expired products for disposal or controlled use.
    2. Unpack: Allows expired products to be separated if required for further processing.
    3. Product Transfer: Supports the relocation of expired products within authorized zones.
    4. Recall: Facilitates the controlled retrieval of expired products from the market.
    5. Destruction: Ensures compliance with disposal regulations by allowing systematic product destruction

all other actions on expired products remain restricted to prevent unauthorized use or accidental distribution. This structured approach ensures that expired inventory is handled appropriately while maintaining operational flexibility where needed

2025-01-16 - Q4 2024

New Tatmeen release with the following updates:

    • Removal of Publisher GLN Field from Partner Master Detail Screen:In response to feedback from industry stakeholders about confusion caused by the Publisher GLN field, this field has been removed from the Partner Master Detail Screen to improve clarity and usability.
    • Revised Training Materials for Settings and User Management:
    • Training documentation has been thoroughly updated to align with the latest system processes, ensuring users have access to accurate and relevant guidance.
    • Improved UI/UX and Messaging Clarity:Various updates have been implemented to improve the overall user experience, with a focus on enhancing the clarity and effectiveness of messages displayed within the portal and B2B integration.
    • Product Verification for In-Transit Products:The product verification service now supports "In-Transit" items, allowing users to verify products if they are the destination GLN, increasing efficiency in the verification process.
    • Addition of Destination GLN Field in Message Log and Cancellation History:A new "Destination GLN" field has been added to the Cancellation History and Message Log screens, applicable to shipping, receiving, and related cancellation processes.
    • Advanced Message Log Filters for SPOC Users:SPOCs (Single Points of Contact) can now view comprehensive message logs for all assigned GLNs and associated users. New filter options, including "Users" and "GLN," enable streamlined navigation and enhanced log management.
    • GLN Dropdown Filter for Mobile and Portal Users:A GLN dropdown filter has been added to the Message Log screen, empowering users to easily filter logs for a specific GLN or view all logs associated with their account.
      • Resolved Android Back Button Navigation Issue. Improvements to the back button functionality include:Navigating through the breadcrumb path to return to the home screen when within a process.
      • Closing the application when the back button is pressed on the Home or Login screen.

    2024-10-08 - Q3 2024

    New Tatmeen release with the following updates:

    • New Daily Reports Available in Downloadable Reports Section on Portal: We have further enhanced the reporting capabilities on the Tatmeen portal by introducing new reports and improving existing ones. The new report structure allows partners to see what stock was sent to them and what they have dispatched to other locations, in addition to their active stock. These reports are now downloadable in spreadsheet format, making them more practical for analysis by participants.
    • Introduction of Hierarchy Report on Portal: A new report has also been published that allows partners to download the inner contents of any container or shipper case in a clearly structured spreadsheet format. This enhancement was made in response to industry requests, as it enables partners to compare what they have physically received against what the manufacturer or supplier reported to Tatmeen.
    • Enhanced Error Messages: We have improved the clarity and detail of error notifications across the platform, ensuring users can better understand issues and resolve them more efficiently. This update aims to reduce troubleshooting time and enhance the overall user experience.
    • Help Content Improvements: The support content has been updated to provide users with clearer, more comprehensive guidance. This enhancement is designed to improve the overall user experience by making help resources easier to navigate and more effective.
    • Verification for Blocked Products: We have implemented verification processes for blocked products, helping inspectors perform their tasks more effectively. This update also allows end users to easily identify blocked items in case they are mistakenly sold by dispensaries, ensuring better product control and safety.
    • Application Responsiveness Enhancements: We've optimized performance across various devices, ensuring a smoother and more responsive user experience. These improvements enhance usability on both desktop and mobile platforms, delivering faster load times and seamless interaction.
    • Addition of Inner Quantity in Product Verification: The product verification feature now displays the total number of items inside any container or shipper case, saving users time by eliminating the need to navigate to the hierarchy details page. This enhancement provides quick and accurate information during verification, saving time and effort for all participants, and especially users who receive packages on daily basis.
    • System Update for 2D Barcode Acceptance: We’ve enhanced the system to process 2D barcodes that include manufacturing dates, even though this field is not listed in the approved serialization guideline published by MoHAP. This update resolves system errors caused by MAHs that include manufacturing dates, ensuring smoother processing without disruptions on the portal.
    • Handling of Expiry Dates in 2D Barcodes: The system has been enhanced to accept 2D DataMatrix codes where the expiry day is indicated as 00, even though this format is not aligned with the serialization guidelines. This update addresses the common practice among several MAHs, ensuring smoother processing and reducing errors related to expiry date validations.

    2024-07-17 - Q2 2024

      New Tatmeen release with the following updates

      • Enhanced Unpacking Process:The enhanced unpacking process would allow the users to re-use the same serialized shipping container code SSCC for other packing purposes after they get unpacked, even when they use the ‘unpack-all’ functionality on Tatmeen. This will reduce the need to generate new SSCC regularly and would save the industry partners time and effort.
      • Product Verification Update: The updated process for product verification now allows both sides of the shipping transaction the shipping location and receiver location to perform product verification even when the items are in transit. This new update will allow the receiver’s location to check the detains and hierarchy of the item before they receive it into their location.
      • New Reports on Portal: SPOC users are now able to download performance reports from the Tatmeen Portal  Reports  Downloadable Reports. These reports are now consolidated in one location for better access and are up to date.
      • Enhanced Error Description: The descriptions of the errors that pop up to users whenever their transaction is rejected by the portal is further enhanced to become more descriptive.
      • New Updates Page: A new page was added to the tatmeen.ae website to keep track of all releases and updates.