How To
Summary
The IBM Food Trust™ Trace module enables your Organization to view and take action on your supply chain data, such as products, facilities, events, and transactions.
Steps
Trace Products
The IBM Food Trust™ Trace module enables your Organization to view and take action on your supply chain data, such as products, facilities, events, and transactions. Integrated supply chain data -- data shared by two or more Organizations -- is traceable by those Organizations when they have uploaded data referencing a shared product instance. This uploading and sharing of data enables IBM Food Trust business partners to trace the same product instance along their supply chains.
Watch the Trace Video
Please take two minutes and watch the Trace Video to see how IBM Food Trust traces your food supply chain products.
About Traceability
End-to-end product traceability on IBM Food Trust means that authorized users can easily find and trace the path of their Organization's food product instances along the supply chain. The IBM Food Trust Trace module is a UI-based subscription service for member organizations to trace food supply chain assets:
- IBM Food Trust Trace examples include identifying a product instance that originated from a specific source (facility), includes a specific ingredient, or has an approaching expiration date.
- Authorized users trace a product by locating its identifiers, such as product ID, lot number, purchase order number, or facility ID.
- Trace results can be narrowed by specifying additional parameters, including date and time range, event type, or facility type.
- Owners of data maintain complete control over which Organizations can trace their data - by choosing a Data Access Policy and setting ACL permissions (Data Entitlement Mode) when uploading data.
Once you are logged into IBM Food Trust, select the Trace module from the main menu.
How to Trace
The following diagrams show how to trace products using the Trace module.
Figure 1. Trace
From the Trace Module click on the left icon to start the product trace.
Figure 2. Trace Button
You can search by product ID (such as GTIN), product label, or purchase order.
Figure 3. Trace Options
You can narrow your trace search by date range, lot number, serial number, or pallet number.
Figure 4. Trace by product example
Figure 5. Product example
You can also use a date range for the purchase order's expected delivery date. Once you are done narrowing down your search, click Trace.
Figure 6. Narrow Trace option
The trace results for the GTIN and the filter that was applied are displayed. Transactions, locations, and the date range associated with the GTIN are displayed. IBM Food Trust Organizations associated with the GTIN are also displayed, depending on the data sharing specifications used by the data owner.
Figure 7. Trace results
Click on the top of the event to view details such as the event date and time, quantity, and lot number.
Figure 8. Trace details
Click multi-ingredient view to view the product components.
Figure 9. Multi-ingredient view 
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18 October 2021
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