Trying to locate a shipment that has been reported undelivered by the consignee; finding the current status of the shipment. Tracing has become more effective through the use of EDI (electronic data interchange).
The process of finding, and possibly contacting, someone related to an adoptee by birth. Tracing is usually done either by an adoptee, but it can also be done by an adoptive parent or by a birth relative. A tracing registry is an index of people who want to be found, used to match them up, although it can also include people saying they do not want to be contacted.
The automatic finding of nodes by automatic navigation . Examples might be finding all nodes dependent on another node, all people interested in a given node, all modules which use a given module. Another example is a trace starting with more than one node, such as to find a node in common between two groups, or path linking two nodes.
A follow-up inquiry with the vendor to locate missing goods, invoices, or credit memos. Often tracing is done with the shipping company to trace the materials ordered. Tracing of any nature is a search to find out where the commodity ordered and not yet shipped has wound up
A carrier's attempt to find a delayed or lost shipment.