Digital Product Identity for HACCP Traceability and Stock Flow
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing logistics systems in the food industry face challenges in providing real-time information across the supply and distribution chain, necessitating repetitive manual data entry and lacking effective stock management, especially in compliance with HACCP regulations.
Innovation Solution
A digital logistics method utilizing a centralized server and Digital Identity system with encrypted identifiers, allowing seamless data sharing and management across producers, wholesalers, and retailers, ensuring real-time compliance and inventory optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If manual data entry is used for product identification along the supply chain, then data can be recorded, but repetitive entry steps increase time consumption and reduce productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data capture by reading product identification data (barcodes, RFID tags) at the point of product receipt or generation. This preliminary action stores the data in the centralized server before it is needed by subsequent supply chain operators, eliminating the need for them to manually enter the same data later.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized server acts as an intermediary that receives, stores, and distributes product identification data to all supply chain operators. Instead of each operator independently capturing data, the server mediates the data flow, providing real-time access to all authorized users across the supply chain.
2Reliability
If real-time information availability is implemented across the supply chain, then compliance with HACCP regulations is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server provides multiple functions within a single system: data storage, real-time distribution, traceability tracking, and compliance monitoring. This multi-functional approach achieves HACCP compliance requirements (upstream traceability, correlation registers) without requiring separate complex systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from manual, paper-based traceability records to a digital dimension where all product information is stored and accessed electronically. This dimensional change from physical to digital enables real-time access and simplifies the complexity of maintaining compliance records.
3Loss of information
If centralized data storage is implemented, then data accessibility for all supply chain members is improved, but data security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements controlled access mechanisms where the centralized server provides data to authorized users based on their roles and permissions. The feedback loop ensures that only appropriate information is distributed to each supply chain operator, maintaining security while enabling necessary data accessibility for compliance and operational needs.
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AI summary
A logistics method for a Product supply and distribution chain is described, the chain including a plurality of subjects in connection with one another through a centralized server for managing various activities for each subject in the chain and for using the data for the benefit of each subject in the chain, the method including the steps of: generating, through an electronic device of a Producer, a Digital Identity of a Product, the Digital Identity having an identifier and information about the Product; communicating, through said electronic device of the Producer, the association between the identifier and the Producer to a first database of a Certifying Body; associating the Digital Identity with the Product; recognizing, through an electronic device of a Customer, the identifier associated with the Product and transmitting the identifier to the centralized server; consulting, by the centralized server, the database of the Certifying Body and transmitting to the electronic device of the Customer an electronic link pointing to the second database of the Producer.