Traceability and the Digital Product Passport
You take one order of 42,000 fleece jackets, and a question nobody could answer about any single one of them. You separate tracking from tracing. You see why the unit of traceability is chosen before it can be captured, and where a tier boundary breaks the chain. And you meet one identifier, chosen at the wrong grain, that cost more to fix than the whole system cost to build.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can read a certificate and say exactly what it does and does not cover, assemble the evidence chain behind a fibre claim, and tell a buyer honestly which of their asks you can prove today and which you cannot.
Who it is for
Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You design traceability for one order. You find the finest unit at which your claim was ever true, against the unit you are being asked for. You map bale to piece with every capture point marked. You define the record that must survive the packing table. You write a flow-down that reaches the tier where the claim is made, not the tier you contract with. And you take the identifier decision last.
Learning format
6 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.
Lessons
- 01The system knew where everything was, and what nothing was made of🔒20 min
- 02The unit is chosen before it can be captured🔒20 min
- 03The tier boundary, and the floor the claim sets itself🔒19 min
- 04What a barcode can honestly do🔒17 min
- 05Retrofit against capture, and the answer you cannot buy🔒18 min
- 06The passport is coming. Build the records first.🔒16 min