2. A bottle's story in 4 phases
Each phase is done by one person, with one tool, and leaves one proof. The tool is the "supply-chain app": a web page opened from a phone, with a personal login for each person.
Like passing the baton in a relay: each runner signs the sheet before handing over, and the sheet cannot be corrected.
| Phase | Who | With which tool | What it records | Which proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Harvest (Raccolta) | Farmer | Phone, supply-chain app | Grove, cultivar, date, kg of olives | Photo |
| 2 Milling (Molitura) | Mill | Supply-chain app | Date, temperature, yield | Photo or sheet |
| 3 Analysis (Analisi) | Laboratory | Supply-chain app | Acidity, peroxides, result | PDF report (fingerprint) |
| 4 Bottling (Imbottigliamento) | Bottler | Supply-chain app | Lot, number of bottles | Photo of the label |
| (event) Recall (Richiamo) | Producer | Supply-chain app | Reason | Notice |
The words in the table
Cultivar: the olive variety (for example Frantoio or Leccino). Milling: pressing the olives. Acidity and peroxides: two laboratory measures of how fresh and well kept the oil is. Fingerprint: a digital label of the document, explained in chapter 3.
Mandatory order
Phases follow one another: you cannot bottle before the analysis is recorded. The system refuses a step out of order.
And the recall?
It is not a phase but an event: the producer marks a lot as recalled and writes the reason, and from then on anyone who scans a bottle of that lot sees it.
Try it yourself
Take a sheet of paper and draw the four phases in a row. Under each write who does it and which proof it leaves, without looking at the table. Then compare.
What you learned
- Each phase has one person, one tool and one proof.
- Phases follow an order that cannot be skipped.
- A recall is an event the producer can record at any time.