If you need to group SFCs together, you already have a few options out of the box, like: SFCs with quantity bigger than one, process lots, packing units, etc. They all serve very specific purposes, but every single one of them come with constraints, like requiring SFCs to be of the same material, same routing, same operation, etc.

Also, if you have very detailed or specific traceability requirements, you also have a few options, like Data to Collect at Assembly/Consumption, which will also have some constraints.

To offer a more flexible solution to address these constraints, we are introducing Trace IDs.

Trace IDs takes a very different and much more flexible approach. There are no built-in constraints on what you trace or assign together, and no shared master data context is required. Trace IDs can address more flexible grouping and tracking requirements, like for example giving a physical part a secondary identifier that follows it across multiple orders as its SFC changes, tracking a part by a high value component assembled, or grouping SFCs freely from any master data constraints.

In this blog post, I will talk about two different scenarios and how to implement and use Trace IDs in detail.

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