Traceability in product supply chain: A global model

Abstract

Products undergo through various processes in their lifecycle from production till use across the complex supply chain. Multiple actors are involved in these processes, generating ample amount of data. All the actors must share these data to make supply chain agile, effective and efficient to enhance the production control process. A traceability system companies use to trace these data. The current traceability system company use, is based on one step up and one step down principle, that is, immediate neighbouring actors share the information among themselves. No all the actors in supply chain share information among themselves which prevents collaboration. But, all these information are needed across the supply chain to enhance the quality of the product. In this work, we propose a global model for traceability to enhance the collaboration among every actors in supply chain with sharing of all the required information. Based on the model, we propose our data model.