Track & Trace
In a circular economy, transparency isn’t optional—it’s foundational. Whether you’re managing reclaimed components, remanufactured goods, or post-consumer recycled materials, your team, your partners, and your customers all need to know exactly where items have been, what’s been done to them, and where they’re going next.
Loop ERP’s Track & Trace feature function delivers granular visibility and chain-of-custody control across your entire product lifecycle—even when that lifecycle loops more than once.
Track & Trace gives you the ability to trace every unit, batch, or component across sourcing, production, reprocessing, resale, and reuse cycles—even through disassembly or transformation. Designed for circular businesses, this feature enables you to capture every event and state change with audit-ready precision.
Lot tracking and traceability software is the part of an ERP system that records and links every event in a material's journey — from sourcing and receiving through processing, storage, movement, and final disposition — so that at any point you can answer exactly where something came from, where it went, and what happened to it along the way. In circular and materials-based operations, traceability is harder than in linear supply chains because the same material may be disassembled, regraded, combined into a batch, split across locations, or resold through multiple channels before its value is fully recovered. A general inventory system tracks what you have; a purpose-built traceability module tracks what happened to it — with time-stamped chain-of-custody records that hold up to regulatory review, recall investigations, and ESG reporting requirements. For businesses operating under FDA, ISO, or EPA frameworks, that audit trail is not optional. For businesses building circular credibility with enterprise customers and sustainability stakeholders, it's becoming just as important.
Track inventory by lot number, batch ID, or unique serial numbers—whichever level of detail your products require. Loop ERP lets you capture movement, condition changes, and ownership shifts in real time.
Access a complete, time-stamped history of every key event across the item’s journey—procurement, production, repair, regrade, disassembly, reuse, or sale.
Ensure accountability across internal departments, 3PLs, service centers, and external partners. Loop ERP records every handoff, shipment, inspection, and receipt to prevent gaps in traceability.
For products that are broken down and rebuilt, trace individual components from source to reuse—even if they’re reinserted into different SKUs or product families.
Manage traceability across multiple warehouses, subsidiaries, contract manufacturers, or reverse logistics providers—while maintaining one unified data view.
Generate reports to meet industry compliance standards (FDA, ISO, EPA, etc.) and circular economy frameworks (WEEE, EPR, Right to Repair). Prove product provenance, reuse rates, and recycling data on demand.
Connect with smart devices, barcode scanners, RFID readers, or mobile apps to automate data capture and reduce manual entry errors in your tracking process.
In the event of defects, breakdowns, or audit flags, Loop ERP lets you trace all affected units instantly and issue corrective actions—before problems escalate.
Loop Insight
Products in circular systems don’t follow a straight line—they’re reborn, rerouted, and reimagined. Loop ERP’s Track & Trace feature ensures you know what’s happening, where, when, and why—at every step.
Whether you're audited by regulators, reporting to investors, or building transparency with customers, Loop ERP Track & Trace gives you the confidence and clarity to lead in the circular economy.
Blogs
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EPR Reporting for Scrap Recyclers: What Your ERP Needs to Handle in 2026
April 13, 2026
What Is Scrap ERP? And Why Generic Systems Fail Scrap Metal Recyclers
March 31, 2026
What Is a Circular Economy ERP? A Plain-English Guide for Scrap, Recycling, and Materials Businesses
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Loop ERP is built on NetSuite, the same platform used by enterprise operators, multi-site businesses, and high-volume processors. It handles multi-entity accounting, consolidated reporting across locations, high daily transaction volumes, and complex settlement structures without slowing down. If you are running one site today and five next year, you do not need to replatform to keep up.
Implementation time varies, depending on the number of locations, material streams, and integrations involved (scales, cameras, payment processors, third-party logistics). The Loop ERP team handles data migration, workflow configuration, integration, and training in parallel, and we work directly with your operations leads, not just IT, so the system matches how your business actually runs on day one.
Most ERP systems treat inventory as static boxes on a shelf. Loop is built for inventory that changes grade, weight, and value at every step, which is how scrap, recycling, aggregate, brokerage, and similar materials-based businesses actually work. It is also NetSuite-native, so you do not need a separate accounting package, a middleware layer, or a patchwork of integrations to get from inbound ticket to closed financials. One login, one system, one source of truth for operations and finance.
Loop ERP provides implementation support, training for operations and finance teams, and ongoing technical support after go-live. Clients get access to documentation, how-to guides, and direct consultation with our team for troubleshooting, configuration changes, and new workflow setup. Support is handled by people who understand the difference between a ticketing issue and a grading exception, not a generic help desk working from a script.
Loop ERP runs on Oracle NetSuite, so your data lives inside enterprise cloud infrastructure with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, and audit logging on every transaction. Ticket edits, grade changes, and settlement adjustments all carry a user stamp and timestamp. If a record is overridden or reclassified, you can see who did it and when, which matters for disputes, audits, and internal controls.
