Quality
Building product and lot traceability
Connect materials, production, storage, dispatch, customers, and recall exercises.
Effective traceability answers in both directions: which materials and processes formed a lot, and where that lot was sent.
Decisions to align
Use these prompts to begin the conversation. Adjust the depth of review to your organization’s risk, scale, and requirements.
- Lot-code format and points where identity is created or changed.
- Links among materials, packaging, process, inspection results, and finished product.
- How lot identity survives storage, picking, dispatch, and receiving.
- Target times for data retrieval, hold, communication, and recall.
Working evidence to retain
Concise records help the team understand earlier decisions, control changes, and review outcomes without relying on memory.
- Material and packaging lots linked to each finished lot.
- Quantities produced, held, released, damaged, and dispatched.
- Receiving customers or locations and quantities.
- Trace exercise results and data-gap corrections.