Answer a customer's trace request from one page

What this module does

A customer asks for the full material trace on a finished assembly: every component consumed, with its serial, lot, certificate, heat and test numbers, ready to hand to their QA team. Item History aggregates that from the production order, the posted consumption ledger, lot tracing, the item card and the document registry.

Key pages

Item brings together what Business Central already knows about a manufactured part, read live. Search Item History by internal item, customer item or drawing number, and it returns the production orders the part was made in, where it was consumed, the purchase receipts and open lines, the non-conformances, and planned against actual times across those operations. What goes into this, do we have it, and where has it been: one screen.

A Project Manager finds the history without walking the Business Central pages themselves. A purchaser pricing a quote reads the part's full purchase history off the same page. The QA team building a customer trace combines the certificates on the BOM into one PDF. A part with an open non-conformance carries a red badge on its number wherever that number appears.