Tree traceability and audit trail
The most dreaded request at audit is simple: show me this sample's history. When that turns into a hunt across three systems, it turns into lost hours and a cold sweat. Here you click the sample and the whole tree opens: proposal, contract, Work Order, parameters, report, all linked.
One screen shows a sample's whole chain.
Click a sample and see the full chain: which proposal originated it, which contract, which Work Order, which parameters, which report. Everything from start to finish in a single tree. No rummaging through three tabs.
Every action is recorded. The auditor sees the whole past.
Every relevant action is recorded: who did it, what, when. If someone changes a result, it stays on record that it was changed, by whom and when. The past does not vanish, it stays logged underneath. Exactly what ISO/IEC 17025 and ALCOA+ ask for.
Beyond tracking a sample, you track a whole batch.
Beyond tracking one sample, you go in and see the whole batch: how many samples, how many parameters, what the status of each was. One consolidated view.
A changed result does not erase the previous one.
When a value changes, the original does not vanish. What it was, what it became, who touched it and when stay on record. It is the nothing was deleted that the auditor wants to see.
The sample's timeline tells the sequence of events.
Collection, intake, analysis, review, signature: each event lands on the sample's timeline, in order. The history is not reconstructed from memory, it is already laid out.
Reagent and equipment join the trail.
Which reagent lot, which instrument, which consumable: all tied to the result. If one of them has a problem, you trace backward which samples were affected.
What ALCOA+ asks for, and where the trail delivers
ALCOA+ is not pretty jargon. It is a list of requirements the audit trail has to meet one by one.
Attributable and dated.
Every action has an author and a moment. Who did it and when are recorded, not inferred.
Original preserved.
A change does not erase the prior data. The original stays there, underneath the change.
Complete and traceable.
The chain runs from proposal to report with no gap. No link is left out of the tree.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see a sample's history on a single screen?
You can. You click the sample and the tree shows proposal, contract, Work Order, parameters and report, from start to finish, with no jumping between systems.
What happens when someone changes a result?
What it was, what it became, who changed it and when are recorded. The previous value does not vanish, so the audit sees that nothing was deleted.
Does the traceability meet ISO/IEC 17025 and ALCOA+?
It was built for it. Every action is attributable and dated, the original is preserved and the chain is complete, from proposal to report.
Can I trace a whole batch, not just one sample?
You can. You go into the batch and see how many samples, how many parameters and the status of each, in one consolidated view.
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