Traceability without spreadsheets or manual tracking
Ops teams rebuild product histories by hand, dig through warehouse records, and scramble to prepare compliance docs during audits and recalls. Piston records lot traceability, serial tracking, and expiry as your operations happen without reconstruction.
Scan lots and serials straight into Piston
Every barcode or QR scan lands in Piston the moment it happens. The floor updates the system, not the other way around.
Scan lots, serial numbers, and movements straight from the warehouse floor
Capture receipts, picks, transfers, and production events without keying
Keep lot and serial traceability complete, updated in real time
Full lot and serial history, end to end
Piston holds the complete history of every lot and serial across its lifecycle. One record, from receipt to shipment.
Track lots, serial numbers, and movements in real time
See where each product was received, transformed, stored, and shipped
Build complete product histories with no manual reconstruction
Catch expiry risks before products go non-compliant
Piston tracks shelf life across every product and flags what is approaching expiration, in time to act on it.
Track expiry dates across warehouses, production, and distribution
Get alerted on products approaching expiration automatically
Prioritize stock allocation by shelf-life requirements
Numbers when traceability runs on Piston
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Faster recall tracing
Trace any lot in seconds
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Less audit prep
Product histories built automatically, end to end
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Always audit-ready
Every lot and serial tracked live
Key traceability system features
Lot traceability
Assign and track lot numbers across every stage of production, storage, and delivery providing complete visibility into where each batch has been and what it contains.
Expiry date management
Track expiry dates and shelf life across all lots and batches auto-prioritizing consumption by oldest-first rotations and alerting teams before products approach their expiration thresholds.
Compliance documentation workflows
Generate and manage the traceability records required for regulatory compliance with embedded workflows that capture required documentation at every relevant step in the supply chain.
Serial number tracking
Manage unique serial numbers for individual units from receipt through production and customer delivery with full history accessible at any point in the product's lifecycle.
Product genealogy visibility
Visualize the complete component and manufacturing history of any finished product, from raw material origin to final assembly, to support quality reviews and regulatory audits.
Customs traceability records
Maintain the origin, batch, and movement records required for import and export compliance, ensuring accurate documentation is always available for customs verification and cross-border audits.
Forward & backward traceability
Trace any product or component both forward to its final destination and backward to its source, enabling rapid impact assessment in recalls or quality investigations.
Recall management support
Isolate affected lots and trace their distribution across customers, warehouses, and production runs in minutes, enabling fast, targeted recalls with minimal operational disruption.
Built for companies that produce goods.
Where physical operations meet real constraints.
Food and beverages
Coordinate production runs, batch traceability, supplier quality, and regulatory compliance in one operational workspace. Piston keeps your production floor and back-office data synchronized, with AI agents handling the routine coordination work.
Distribution
Manage orders, stock, suppliers, and customer relationships in one operational workspace. Piston keeps your sales pipeline and supply chain in sync, with AI agents handling the routine coordination work.
Manufacturing
Run production, inventory, procurement, and finance in one operational workspace. Piston keeps shop-floor reality and back-office data in sync, with AI agents handling the repetitive coordination work.
FAQ
Does Piston automatically manage compliance without human validation?
No. Piston assists sales and operations teams by centralizing order visibility, automating routing decisions, detecting fulfillment exceptions, and coordinating invoicing workflows, but operational decisions remain fully controlled by teams. Sales managers, operations teams, and customer service still validate order priorities, manage fulfillment exceptions, approve high-value orders, and handle customer commercial conditions. The objective is not to automate order management blindly. The objective is to reduce the manual coordination overhead created by fragmented order entry, disconnected fulfillment systems, and repetitive invoicing administration.
How much manual traceability work can teams reduce?
Many industrial sales and operations teams still re-enter orders manually, coordinate fulfillment through emails and spreadsheets, and generate invoices separately from operational events. Piston reduces this overhead by connecting order capture, fulfillment routing, inventory allocation, and invoicing inside one operational workflow synchronized in real time. Orders, stock reservations, fulfillment status, and billing remain aligned automatically instead of requiring manual coordination across sales, warehouse, logistics, and finance teams. Teams spend less time processing orders administratively and more time managing customer priorities and operational exceptions.
What makes Piston different from traditional traceability systems?
Traditional ERP order management workflows are often rigid, fragmented, and slow to reflect real operational activity. Orders are entered manually. Fulfillment routing depends on spreadsheets. Invoicing happens separately from delivery confirmation. Customer service lacks visibility into operational status. Piston connects order management directly to inventory, warehouse, production, logistics, and finance operations inside one shared workspace. Sales teams, operations, and customer service maintain real-time visibility across order status, fulfillment progress, and payment activity without relying on disconnected systems and manual status updates.
Can Piston support regulated industries and complex traceability requirements?
Yes. Piston is designed for industrial B2B environments where orders depend on customer-specific pricing, volume conditions, production dependencies, multi-site fulfillment, and commercial approval workflows. The platform supports make-to-order operations, blanket orders, customer price books, EDI integrations, 3PL coordination, and order-to-cash tracking across complex industrial sales environments. Operational teams can adapt order workflows according to customer requirements and operational constraints instead of forcing order activity into rigid ERP processes.
Why do industrial companies modernize traceability workflows?
As industrial B2B operations grow more complex, order coordination becomes increasingly difficult to manage manually. Sales and operations teams often rely on spreadsheets, manual ERP entry, email-based fulfillment coordination, and disconnected invoicing workflows to process customer orders. This creates entry errors, fulfillment delays, billing mistakes, and poor visibility across sales, operations, and finance teams. Industrial companies modernize order management to centralize order operations, automate fulfillment routing, improve order-to-cash performance, and give teams real-time visibility across the full order lifecycle without increasing coordination overhead.
