MANAGING CERTIFICATION AND IMPORTATION INFORMATION FOR SUPPLY CHAINS

摘要

Systems and methods are described for implementing a supply chain certification system. Products early in a supply chain may be consumed in the manufacture of later products, and the earlier products may have characteristics (e.g., organic, fair trade, sustainably farmed, sourced from a particular geographic region, etc.) that may or may not be preserved in the later products. The supply chain certification system tracks the manufacture and delivery of products in a supply chain, and may certify that the later products in the supply chain retain the characteristics of the earlier products. For example, the system may verify for a given product that the quantity manufactured does not exceed the quantity that can be manufactured out of the certified raw materials delivered to the manufacturer. The system may also be used to analyze sets of defective products and identify a common "ancestor" product, and to identify manufacturing inefficiencies.