Kunzler Bean & Adamson
End-to-end commodity and commodity marking tracking
Embodiments of the invention relate to establishing commodity traceability across supplier, manufacturer, and customer processes via end-to-end commodity marking traceability. A manufacturer receives incoming material, such as an industry standard commodity, from a supplier and authenticates a marking affixed to the incoming material. After authenticating the supplier's marking for the incoming material, a second marking is affixed to the incoming material. The commodity is converted at manufacturing into a finished product and associated with finished product data. The supplier's marking and the manufacturer's markings for the incoming material are related, and the relationship is related to the finished product data. The stored and maintained relationships supports integration of the first marking data and the second marking data with product data, and supports end-to-end commodity marking traceability.
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
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inventional inventional
Thomas S. JunWu JiXiong David T.
Mazzeo Sun Chen Bennington