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Traceability of unprepared beef
products enables companies to provide information about the origin and
processing history of these products. The data flow within the beef
supply chain must ensure the availability of all data relevant to
and/or required by public authorities, legislation and business
processes. This project will focus on the beef traceability
requirements in the beef supply chain.
Tracking and Tracing is defined by GS1 Global Office within the TRACE-I
guidelines in the following way:
"Tracking is the capability to follow the path of a specified unit
and/or batch of trade items downstream through the supply chain as it
moves between trading partners. Trade items are tracked routinely for
availability, inventory management and logistical purposes."
"Tracing is the capability to identify the origin of a particular unit
located within the supply chain by reference to records held upstream
in the supply chain. Units are traced for purposes such as recall and
complaints."
"In order to effectively facilitate traceability, both tracking and
tracing capabilities must be in place."
In the case of a product, the term "traceability" may refer to:
- the origin of materials and parts;
- the history of processes applied to
the product;
- the distribution and placement of
the product after delivery.
From the point of view of the user, traceability may be defined as
following-up products in both a qualitative and quantitative manner
within space and time.
From an information management point of view, implementing a
traceability system within a supply chain involves systematically
associating a flow of information with a physical flow. The objective
is to be able to obtain predefined information concerning batches or
groups of products (also pre-defined) at any given moment, using one or
more key identifiers.
Objectives
Key objectives are:
- Describe the exchange of production
history data of unprepared beef delivered by a supplier to a buyer in
order to support traceability and quality management.
- Creation of UML-based business
models for the global beef supply chain (slaughter to retail )
using Rational Rose as a modeling tool, and involving beef trading
partners and users, to better enable tracking & tracing (henceforth
referred to in this context as “traceability”) of beef products.
- Definition of beef-specific terms
for the EAN.UCC Global Data Dictionary.
Scope
Exchange of beef traceability data:
- Transfer key identifiers: The seller
transfers the key identifiers which enable traceability in the beef
supply chain.
- Transfer beef characteristic data:
The seller transfers beef characteristic data to the buyer in order to
enable the buyer to identify and describe beef products available for
supply or for information purposes.
- Transfer beef product despatch
information: Indicate the despatch of beef products before the goods
are physically delivered.
Out of scope
- Incomplete deliveries and returns
- ECR scenarios, e.g. pre-packed
cross-docking (transshipment)
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