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Term of the Road Dictionary

lot traceability

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / English
  • Theme : Financial and Legal Tools Finance and Procurement Economics and Finance
  • Definition : Facility to record the consumption, production, status and location of materials by lot identity or serial number through all or some of the processes from initial purchase to final customer delivery, and the ability to retrieve this information either forwards, from lower build levels upwards, or in reverse, from higher build levels downwards, or from any individual process. Note: traceability could be required to satisfy recallability requirements in certain industries [EN 14943].

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