Traceability Management for Agricultural Supply Chains
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Solution Overview
Problem
In the agricultural, fishery, and animal husbandry supply chains, there is a lack of reliable and instantaneous data connectivity between upstream, midstream, and downstream manufacturers, making it difficult to correlate production and sales records, resulting in fragmented food safety information for consumers.
Innovation Solution
A traceability management method that uses mathematical operations to connect and correlate data across different databases, allowing users to input identification data and perform recursive operations to establish traceability nodes, enabling the querying of historical product footprints within the supply chain.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored in different databases or different files by various manufacturers, then data storage flexibility is improved, but data connectivity and correlation between upstream, midstream, and downstream manufacturers deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a traceability management system as an intermediary platform that connects various manufacturers' databases. This system uses standardized data interfaces and protocols to enable data exchange and correlation between different databases without requiring centralized storage, thus maintaining storage flexibility while achieving data connectivity through the mediating platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal data standard that enables multiple manufacturers with different database structures to exchange data effectively. The standardized interface serves multiple functions: data validation, format conversion, and correlation establishment, allowing the system to work across diverse database environments while maintaining connectivity.
2Ease of manufacture
If manual record management is used by manufacturers, then implementation simplicity is improved, but data reliability and instantaneity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated data collection and validation mechanisms that enable manufacturers to maintain records independently through the traceability system. The system automatically validates data entry, ensures compliance with standards, and maintains reliability without requiring complex manual procedures, thus achieving both simplicity and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates real-time feedback mechanisms where the traceability system provides immediate validation and error reporting to manufacturers. This feedback loop ensures data reliability by preventing erroneous entries while maintaining implementation simplicity through user-friendly interfaces that guide correct data entry.
3Device complexity
If fragmented food safety information is provided to consumers, then data storage complexity for manufacturers is reduced, but information completeness for consumers deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested data structure where each manufacturer stores only their own data locally, while the traceability system nests these individual data sets into a complete supply chain traceability record. This allows consumers to access comprehensive information without requiring any single manufacturer to store or manage complex integrated data structures.
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AI summary
A traceability management method for supply chains of agricultural, fishery and animal husbandry products provided by the invention is provided for a user for inputting an identification data, and searching for at least one first data, second data and/or third data matching the identification data from databases, and then performing correlated recursive mathematical operation on the first data, the second data, and/or the third data to search for and establish a traceability node having connection relationship with the first data, the second data and/or the third data. Thereby, relevant historical footprints of a product in a supply chain between manufactories can be traced.