IOF Supply Chain Traceability

Representing the history of supply chain through critical tracking event to enable track and trace.

Scope:

Manufacturing and Food supply chain.

Primary Terms:

Critical Tracking Event

Semi-Formal Natural Language Definition: A planned process that has at least one Trace Unit or Equipment (with which TRU comes into contact with) or Operator (that runs an Equipment with which TRU comes into contact with at some time) as participant .

Transfer Event

Semi-Formal Natural Language Definition: A Movement Event in which the location of the participating Trace Unit is changed from a Source Container to a Target Container.

Transport Event:

Semi-Formal Natural Language Definition: A Movement Event in which the position or the location of the participating Trace Unit changes.
Semi-Formal Natural Language Definition: A Movement Event that results in moving some material from a source location to a target location.

Transformation Event

Container

Semi-Formal Natural Language Definition: An Object or Fiat Object Part that bears a Container Role.

Container Interior

Semi-Formal Natural Language Definition:A site bound by physical boundaries or surfaces of a container artifact.

Trace Unit

Load

Load Role

Semi-Formal Natural Language Definition: A role born by objects or object aggregates when they are transferred or transported together.

Target Load Role

Source Load Role

Target Load

Source Load

Portion of Grain

Field Site

Field

Farm Site

Farm

Agricultural Facility

On-Farm Storage Facility

Container Role

Semi-formal Natural Language Definition: A role inhered in an object or fiat object part when it wholly or partially contains some material entity.

Traceable Resource Unit Role

Semi-formal Natural Language Definition: A role borne by some object or object aggregate when they have a shared history and some agent may have a need to retrieve information about them.

Source Container Role

Target Container Role