| 摘要 |
A process engine, method and system for monitoring chains of supply of one or more products is disclosed. The processing engine (4) and method operates on a data storage means (12) and data processing means (11) in accordance with pre-determined constraints. Information is assigned a unique identifying number (UID) as the information is input via data capture devices (7, 8). Each UID incorporates an assigned security level for that transaction. Hard attributes are assigned to each initial product (30) which survive each transaction until the product (30) is dis-engineered to further products (31). The earlier in time product source (30) becomes a hard attribute of products (32-35) further down the chain. Soft attributes of each product (30) can be altered by recordal of a transaction. User permission profiles are assigned by organisations controlling the transactions. The profiles provide access to the transactions dependent on the security levels of each transaction. |
