traceability systems

Supply chain monitoring

Traceability systems are methods for tracking products, components, or materials through stages of production, processing, and distribution.

Common in food safety, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing, they allow companies to identify the origin of goods and follow their path to consumers: The traceability system flagged contaminated lettuce from a single farm.

When recalls occur, traceability systems help pinpoint affected batches quickly.

Opposites
transparency vs. opacity

traceability systemswillful blindness

Conscious avoidance of knowledge

gray markets · black markets

methodological rigor

traceability systemsguesswork

Conclusions drawn without proof

oral traditions

transparency and accountability

traceability systemsopacity

Impermeability to light

willful ignorance · secrecy · concealment

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trace, ability, system, tract, traction, systematic, systemic, retrace, traceable

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