Traceability - curse or blessing? Logistic approach
Traceability is a basic requirement of any industry, in some cases traceability at the batch level is sufficient to meet the requirements, in others it must go in detail and demonstrate that a finished product was made according to the established process, using the materials and quantities established, produced by operators trained to perform those stages of the process, with the recording at the piece level of the date and time of execution of each transformation of the raw material into the finished product.
If in the production area the implementation of traceability can sometimes be difficult (for example, thermal treatments that destroy the bar code), in the Logistics area, traceability is relatively simple to implement, provided the procedures are followed and involving average costs.
What helps us with traceability in the Logistics area?
Everything starts with the reason for the existence of Logistics: to move materials. That's why we need to know all the time where our materials are, in what quantities and how old they are in stock. In the case of FIFO requirements, it is very difficult to demonstrate the use of the oldest article - here comes the traceability supported by computer systems (barcode, QRCode, RFID).
Stock variations are a (unwanted) reality of any logistics provider. In addition to explanations why we have stock variations, there is also the second requirement, which is a little more difficult to achieve: what are the root causes of the variations. Traceability (registration to download, taking into stock, moving to storage locations, picking for delivery in production, taking stock of finished products, picking for delivery to the customer, consolidating transport and loading) gives us a lot of information to investigate such root causes.
For some industries, the use of the stock at the lot level is very important (all the material from a certain batch of goods is used - once the batch is declared closed the material can no longer be used and a new batch is started) - in this case "the stealing" ", The" loss "or" forgetting "of a part of the goods in a declared batch can be translated into significant losses - traceability helps us to properly evaluate the batch completion.
There are many advantages to implementing the traceability in Logistics - when we do export it is absolutely necessary in demonstrating the (preferential) origin of the goods - but, like any system, it must be implemented in such a way as to maintain and offer us further advantages.
We invite you to the courses organized by Effective Flux to learn and develop the possibilities that traceability can offer to Logistics and thus, directly, to your business. We will discuss solutions and implementation methods so that traceability will give you maximum results.
If in the production area the implementation of traceability can sometimes be difficult (for example, thermal treatments that destroy the bar code), in the Logistics area, traceability is relatively simple to implement, provided the procedures are followed and involving average costs.
What helps us with traceability in the Logistics area?
Everything starts with the reason for the existence of Logistics: to move materials. That's why we need to know all the time where our materials are, in what quantities and how old they are in stock. In the case of FIFO requirements, it is very difficult to demonstrate the use of the oldest article - here comes the traceability supported by computer systems (barcode, QRCode, RFID).
Stock variations are a (unwanted) reality of any logistics provider. In addition to explanations why we have stock variations, there is also the second requirement, which is a little more difficult to achieve: what are the root causes of the variations. Traceability (registration to download, taking into stock, moving to storage locations, picking for delivery in production, taking stock of finished products, picking for delivery to the customer, consolidating transport and loading) gives us a lot of information to investigate such root causes.
For some industries, the use of the stock at the lot level is very important (all the material from a certain batch of goods is used - once the batch is declared closed the material can no longer be used and a new batch is started) - in this case "the stealing" ", The" loss "or" forgetting "of a part of the goods in a declared batch can be translated into significant losses - traceability helps us to properly evaluate the batch completion.
There are many advantages to implementing the traceability in Logistics - when we do export it is absolutely necessary in demonstrating the (preferential) origin of the goods - but, like any system, it must be implemented in such a way as to maintain and offer us further advantages.
We invite you to the courses organized by Effective Flux to learn and develop the possibilities that traceability can offer to Logistics and thus, directly, to your business. We will discuss solutions and implementation methods so that traceability will give you maximum results.
