Producers and handlers of various grown commodities commingle products
together during storage and transportation. The commingling of similar
varieties of products with different attributes or characteristics makes
it difficult to distinguish between like products. A system is described
that tracks lots of these products from their creation through the entire
storage and transportation process, which can be very complex.
Furthermore, the system integrates tracking data from one or more
enterprise software systems. Specifically, the enterprise software
systems collect tracking data along with data normally collected by the
enterprise software systems. The enterprise software systems submit the
tracking data to an integration module of the identity preservation and
tracing system in formats that comply with one or more business activity
definitions installed with the integration module. The integration module
verifies the tracking data and records the tracking data into the product
identity preservation and tracing system.