Understanding Tracing and Tracking Operations
Tracing enables you to follow the bulk material back through its processes to understand how it became a finished product. Tracking enables you to review various parts of operations to understand how the finished product was impacted and how future products might be impacted. You can review actual and planned information, such as start dates, end dates, operational gains, and operational losses to help prevent undesirable results in planned operations. The system displays instructed and summary attributes. You can also choose to display named calculations.
The system displays operations in a tree structure with various icons representing the different types of movements. The indentation of the tree structure represents the levels at which the operations are nested.
You can trace and track lots by:
Vessel number and class.
Operation number.
Date range.
When you enter the Operation Trace/Track form for the first time, the system automatically populates the End Date field in one of two ways. If you are tracing the operation, it subtracts the value in the Number of Days processing option from the instructed start date of the operation. If you are tracking the operation, it adds the number of days to the instructed start date.
Additive item and lot.
Consumable item and lot.
When you filter by lot, you must have an additive or consumable item set up.
From the Operation Trace/Track form, you can:
Review the details of a selected operation.
View details of the Before and After lot of the operation.
View the lot master record for additive items, if you set up the items as lot-controlled.