GoTrace Knowledge Base

Locations

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Locations are not a required part of GoTrace but can be very useful to set up for getting real-time alerts. Adding locations allows you to get alerts when a load enters a known area. You can also get alerts if a load starts or stops outside of a known area, allowing you to react to anomalies in your supply chain as they occur.

To add a new Location, click on “Locations” in the navigation menu and then click the “Add” circle at the bottom right of GoTrace.

A Location normally consist of the following fields:

1. Location name

2. Location Address

3. Location Longitude

4. Location Latitude

5. Radius for Location

To add custom data fields, you can create a Location Type.

Users

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Users are the way you control who has access to your supply chain. Each user can have a specific role with a set of responsibilities and permissions to take actions within your supply chain.

To add a new User, click on “Users” in the navigation menu, and then click the “Add” circle at the bottom right of GoTrace.

A User consists of the following fields:

1. User Email

2. User Role

Once you create a new user they will receive an email to confirm their access has been granted and they can then login and interact with your organization.

Organizations

Organizations in GoTrace are a way to keep your supply chains housed in one grouping. In most cases you may only ever have one organization however GoTrace enables you to participate in multiple organizations to have more complex supply chain situations.

When you have access to multiple Organizations, you can swap between them by click on the top-right menu and tapping the “Swap” icon in the top right corner of the menu. From here you may select any of the organizations you have access to.

To create a new Organization, click on the top-right menu, and select the switch icon. After seeing the list of your organizations click on “New Organization” and then give your new organization name. Once submitted, your new organization will now appear as an option to swap between.

Assets

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Assets in GoTrace are the building blocks of your supply chain. The best way to think of Assets in GoTrace is that they can be the individual products you are tracking or any container that those products may go in. It could be any type of box, crate, pallet, or even larger containers like trucks or shipping containers. Once you define your Assets in GoTrace your supply chain tracking is ready to begin.

To create a new Asset, click on “Assets” in the left side navigation menu and click on the “Add” circle in the bottom right corner and populate the fields.

Loads

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Loads are the main functionality of GoTrace that allows you to track elements of your supply chain. A Load can be nearly anything. It may be the individual product(s) you are tracking or any container or vessel in your chain. You can even nest Loads within another Load (and even deeper) Each Load has its own history that is made up of its individual journey as well as the journey of any Loads it gets nested inside of.

Creating a new Load can be done by navigating to “Loads” in the top left main navigation. Then clicking on the “add” circle in the bottom right corner.

Load fields consist of:

• Name of Load

• Paired Barcode (Optional)

• Type of Asset

• Any Source Loads (Optional)

Source Loads are used when something is coming from a larger Load and being split into smaller Loads. A case where they may happen is a boat of fish where the fish aren’t individually being tracked. You may create smaller Loads, for example, “crates of fish” (a Load of asset type “create”) that use the boat (a Load of asset type “Boat”) they were caught on as their source load. This will enable each crate to inherit the history of their source load as part of their journey.

Traces

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Traces are what the end consumer will see from your supply chain. Customers will be able to scan the GoTrace barcodes and view a webpage showing their product’s journey from source to the product before them.