Trace goods through the supply chain

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Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Jul 2024	-

Business value

Companies are under increasing pressure to comply with legislation (such as the EU and German Supply Chain Act), especially when it comes to recalling defective and potentially unsafe products, or for the sake of linking products with certain documents. Supply chain traceability in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management lets you collect business and industry-specific data across the product value chain, which can be used for regulation audits and compliance process. Beyond compliance, the supply chain traceability also enables companies to meet a wide range of business objectives, including efficiency, resilience, responsiveness, and sustainability.

Feature details

Supply chain traceability follows products and goods as they move through the supply chain and collects information about the provenance of inputs, supplier sourcing practices, and conversion processes. It provides the following features and benefits:

• Accurate tracking: Track and document the chain of custody based on individual identifiers (such as serial numbers or batch numbers) across the entire value chain, and throughout the full lifecycle of an item.
• As-built BOM registration: Document composition genealogy information (as-built BOM) and activity events (such as procurement, production, and distribution) against each serial and batch number. You can trace all the way back to find the origin of each single part.
• Forward and backward search: Use the where-used functionality to track the consumption of materials throughout your entire value chain and find finished or semi-finished goods that could be impacted by a defective component.
• Simplified integration: Integrate with external systems using the robust supply chain traceability API. While this requires some initial setup and configuration, it offers a high degree of flexibility and customization to cater to specific business needs.