Hello all,
I have a question about Traceability that I think it will bring some discussion to this forum.
I will create a kind of a case study so that it will be easier for all of us to produce some comments about this matter.
Imagine a factory that produces cakes, for instance. The raw materials are put into independent silos:
-3 silos for flour (12 tons each);
-1 silo for sugar;
-1 silo for glucose.
In terms of traceability, it is easy to follow the flour batch, as soon as we start to use the third silo (the other two are empty) we can contact the supplier to deliver flour to be put into the other two silos. So, in this case I had Silo 3 with an old batch and silos 1 and 2 with a new batch. Right? The traceability would be very easy to be done, as the flour of different batches didn’t mix up.
Now, if we are speaking about the sugar silo, which in this case is only one, the case is more difficult. In this case, I would have to contact the supplier before the sugar has ended. In this situation I would have two different batches on the same silo: a little bit of the old batch and several tons of the new one. How would we follow the batches on the traceability system? I can’t know the exact moment the new batch started to be used.
Now, the third case is even more difficult. What was described for sugar happens with glucose. However, as the glucose is more or less liquid, when I put a new batch on top of an old one they get mixed (diluted one into another). So how to assure traceability here?
I hope to get some answers and discussion on these 3 cases, as I don’t think they are black or white when it comes to the point of planning the traceability system.
Regards,
Lucas
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