Trace every mask, glove and gown from raw material lot to the buyer’s delivery.

A PPE manufacturer makes masks, gloves, gowns, coveralls, face shields, safety eyewear or protective footwear, often in large lots for distributors and institutional buyers. Buyers ask for lot numbers, test reports and certificates along with the goods.

Those papers usually live in several places, such as a stock register, a quality file kept by one person and the sales team’s email folders. The software keeps them together. A discovery session follows one lot from material receipt to the buyer’s invoice.

Raw material arrives as rolls of nonwoven fabric, filter media, nitrile or latex compound, elastic, nose wire, lenses or leather. Stores check it at the gate and record the supplier lot. Planning turns confirmed orders into production runs for each line, with a target quantity and a shift. Operators run the machines, quality staff pull samples at set intervals, and a lot is released only when its checks are complete.

Finished goods are packed. Boxes, then cartons, each labelled with the product code and lot. Dispatch follows the buyer’s schedule. Some buyers want test reports with every shipment. Others tender once a year and call off in parts. Returns must be matched to the lot. Otherwise a small fault becomes a large one.