# RemnantRack handbook Measure, label, find and use retained material with exact allowances, controlled releases and traceable remainders. Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack Review edition: 25 October 2026 ## Guides and help pages - [Start here: Operator](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/operator): Register, locate and use a measured piece while keeping its label and physical location together. - [Start here: Supervisor](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/supervisor): Review held cuts, missing pieces, disposal decisions and other people's unfinished work. - [Start here: Author](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/author): Draft exact material definitions, policy rules, defaults and examples before review. - [Start here: Reviewer](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/reviewer): Check material changes and the saved policy proof before making a version live. - [Start here: Owner](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/owner): Set up the site, people, racks and integration settings while keeping production decisions with their roles. - [Start here: Viewer](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/viewer): Read piece history, search explanations and reports without reserving or changing stock. - [Roles, actions and additional checks](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/roles-and-actions): Check who can perform each task, when a station or recent verification is needed, and which reviews require independent people. - [Remnant measurements and cut-result inputs](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/input-reference): Check the exposed field formats, units, bounds and required evidence, then resolve the actual refusal before recording work. - [Register and put away a piece](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/register-and-put-away): Measure and put away a piece, then follow an illustrative fit, cut-balance and kept-child handover. - [Find a piece that fits](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/find-a-piece): Enter a complete demand, read candidates and rejection reasons, then reserve an exact piece. - [Understand exact lengths, kerf and uncertainty](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/lengths-and-fit): Read accepted measurement entries and the guaranteed length needed for a cut. - [Manage reservations and check out a piece](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/reservations-and-checkout): Hold a candidate for a job, verify it at the bin and handle expiry or release correctly. - [Complete a cut and account for the remainder](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/complete-a-cut): Record actual output and losses, review the balance and put away the child piece. - [Record whole use, an unchanged return or quarantine](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/return-or-whole-use): Choose the ending that describes the physical outcome of checked-out material. - [Control exact materials and aliases](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/materials): Draft material changes and scanner aliases, then release the checked set independently. - [Draft policy rules and independent examples](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/rules-and-examples): Choose outcomes, write conditions and save challenge cases before running proof. - [Prove, release or roll back policy](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/policy-release): Inspect the current saved proof and understand what activation does to reservations and open work. - [Resolve held cuts, missing stock and label exceptions](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/exceptions): Use a supervisor decision that preserves the actual measurements, identity and physical outcome. - [Check a rack and review discrepancies](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/rack-checks): Record witnessed piece sightings against a fixed location baseline before resolving differences. - [Prepare a site, rack and station](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/site-and-stations): Arrange roles, location cards and station access before production begins. - [Handle a lost answer, locked station or rejected scan](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/connection-and-scanning): Establish what the server recorded before repeating a physical action. - [Read piece history and current state](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/history-and-state): Follow identity, custody, label generations and parent-child lineage without mistaking them for fresh inspection. - [Export records and close a site](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/exports-and-closure): Choose the right archive, preserve exact values and resolve open work before closure. - [Preview and adopt reference or opening-stock imports](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/imports): Choose the correct importing role, resolve the complete preview and keep provisional stock separate from available pieces. - [Manage read credentials and outgoing event delivery](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/remnantrack/integrations): Issue site-bound credentials, maintain subscriptions and preview deliberate replay without treating delivery as a stock action.