Abstract: In a method of tracking consignments during their production by one or more processing plants, a plurality of original orders are provided, each of the original orders including a plurality of consignments to be produced. Depending on predetermined properties of the consignments, at least one processing order is produced, the processing order including at least one consignment which is to be produced and stems from different original orders. The processing order is processed by the one or more processing plants so as to produce the respective consignments from the original orders. Each consignment which is to be produced and is contained in the original orders is unambiguously associated with the corresponding consignment in the processing order so as to enable, on the basis of the association, tracking of a consignment from the original order while it is being processed.

Abstract: The progressive tracking of items in relation to other items as they are processed and transformed through a sequence of processes executed in a workflow procedure intended to produce a finished hard copy document product for transport to a destination location, as a result of a production run, enables permission based control of one or more processing steps during the production run and/or effective scheduling of any re-do operations that may be desired upon detection of any discrepancies in the item processing operations.

Abstract: The progressive tracking of items in relation to other items as they are processed and transformed through a sequence of processes executed in a workflow procedure intended to produce a finished hard copy document product for transport to a destination location, as a result of a production run, enables permission based control of one or more processing steps during the production run and/or effective scheduling of any re-do operations that may be desired upon detection of any discrepancies in the item processing operations.