Designing Traceability Systems

Product traceability is a tool for realising specific goals, such as improved food safety or logisitic optimisation. FoodPrint, a methodological design framework for traceability systems, systematically defines the traceability objectives, and derives design objectives from collective goals of all relevant actors in a chain. During system analysis and design, areas of attention are Process, Information, Organisation and Technology. In a FoodPrint analysis these aspects are integrated in a complete traceability system design. When the design is completed, the following steps, i.e. system development and implementation in practice, can be undertaken.