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Co-Products and Traceability

  • December 1, 2025
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Do Gooder (Customer)
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I have been looking into the new Co-product feature in 25R1 and it seems ideal for our needs except for one major flaw.  

  • Parent part must not be multi-level tracked

For this feature to be of any use to us we would require both the parent part and the co-product to be lot tracked. Even in the example given in the release presentation of two castings made in the same mold it makes no sense to only be able to lot track one of the castings. 

Can anyone explain the logic behind this? Surely if I am making two products that are equally valuable then I should be able to track them equally?  Will tracking of the parent part be available in future releases?   

Best answer by Björn Hultgren

Having the main and co-product part multilevel tracked would require you to be able to distribute the consumed material between the different produced parts. You would need to create one as-built structure for the main product and another for the co-product. 

This would be great, but a rather large implementation.

If you don't require the multilevel tracking you can still use the lot back tracking. 

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    Björn Hultgren
    Hero (Employee)
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    • Björn Hultgren
    • Hero (Employee)
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    • December 1, 2025

    Having the main and co-product part multilevel tracked would require you to be able to distribute the consumed material between the different produced parts. You would need to create one as-built structure for the main product and another for the co-product. 

    This would be great, but a rather large implementation.

    If you don't require the multilevel tracking you can still use the lot back tracking. 

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      Do Gooder (Customer)
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      • Jbannister
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      • Do Gooder (Customer)
      • December 10, 2025

      Thanks Bjorn I can see it would be complicated to implement; it’s just a shame to have to choose between the two functionalities. 

      Björn Hultgren
      Hero (Employee)
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      Thanks Bjorn I can see it would be complicated to implement; it’s just a shame to have to choose between the two functionalities. 

      What is the reason for having the parts as multi-level tracked when lot/batch tracked? Do you really need to assign the components to different parent lot/batch numbers on the shop order and create an as-built structure.  

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