End-to-End Commodity and Commodity Marking Tracking

摘要

Embodiments of the invention relate to establishing commodity traceability across supplier, manufacturer, and customer processes via end-to-end commodity marking traceability. A manufacturer receives incoming material, such as an industry standard commodity, from a supplier and authenticates a marking affixed to the incoming material. After authenticating the supplier's marking for the incoming material, a second marking is affixed to the incoming material. The commodity is converted at manufacturing into a finished product and associated with finished product data. The supplier's marking and the manufacturer's markings for the incoming material are related, and the relationship is related to the finished product data. The stored and maintained relationships supports integration of the first marking data and the second marking data with product data, and supports end-to-end commodity marking traceability.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving incoming material with a first applied marking and authenticating the first marking of the incoming material; applying a second marking to the incoming material in response to authentication; creating a first relationship between the markings, the first relationship connecting the first marking with the second marking; creating a second relationship between the first relationship and a product, the product comprising at least the incoming material; and improving quality control of the product, including using the second relationship to identify the incoming material.