Audit Trails
Overview
Audit Trails let you trace the production history of any batch or tank — forwards from its source through to finished goods, or backwards from a finished product back to its source. They’re useful for verifying label integrity, investigating production issues, or demonstrating traceability for compliance purposes.
Accessing Audit Trails
Audit Trails can be started from any operation, including harvests, bulk receivals, blending, transfers, packaging, bulk despatches, or any operation in between. Click the cog icon next to the relevant operation or vessel and select Audit Forwards or Audit Backwards.
The screenshots below show examples of where these options appear:
The Audit Trail Chart
The chart displays each operation as a node, connected in production order. Where product has been split across vessels or blended together, the chart branches accordingly.
The chart shows 5 operations by default. For a complete picture, click any node and select Search Forward To End or Search Backward To Beginning.
Clicking a node lets you navigate the chain, open the operation, or view the blend composition at that point.
A written table of the same information is available to email, download, or print — useful for compliance records or sharing with third parties.
Chart Options
The toolbar lets you adjust the layout and grouping of the chart to suit how you want to read it.
- Operations Travel From — sets which end of the chain appears first
- Draw Direction — vertical or horizontal layout
- Color Operations By — colour-code nodes by Batch Status or Tree Generation to spot patterns across the chain
- Group Operations By — set to Operation to consolidate multiple vessels from the same operation into one node, giving a cleaner view of the overall flow
- Highlight Operations — highlights where product enters or leaves the system, useful for quickly identifying receivals and despatches within a long chain