Why Blockchain in Supply Chains
Why Blockchain in Supply Chains
Why Blockchain in Supply Chains
• Blockchain can be beneficial, especially when there is a need to monitor the supply
chain. Now, businesses can quickly fix inefficiencies within their supply chains, as well as
locate items in real-time.
• Also, blockchain will allow businesses, and possibly consumers, to see how products
performed from a quality-control point of view as they travelled from their place of
origin to the retailer.
• Suppliers can use the blockchain to note the origin of the materials they have bought.
And for doing so, they can also take help from the blockchain development companies.
• These companies help businesses easily verify the authenticity of their products by
using blockchain solutions.
GOALS OF SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
• Fulfilling the demand
• Drive customer value
• Improve responsiveness
• Contribute to financial success
THE ROLE OF SUPPLY CHAIN
• Purchasing , storing and delivery of raw material
• Warehousing
• Shipping
• Transporting goods to distributors
• Efficient logistic are essential to business profit and customer
satisfaction , 90% trade by water
CHALLENGES IN SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
• Multiple separate players
• Lack of transparency
• Discrepancies in record
• Limited cross process visibility
• Globalization
• Maintaining high performance
FedEx
• FedEx is one of the world’s biggest logistics management companies
and handles billions of dollars worth of cargo every year.
• FedEx has now become the first big shipping giant to incorporate
Blockchain Technology into their supply chain management.
• So far, they are using Blockchains to track high-value cargo and are
soon planning to extend the functionality to almost all their
shipments.
• In addition to that, they are also helping to develop the Blockchain
based industry standards for supply chain logistics establishing
themselves as pioneers in this field.
Walmart
• Walmart and nine other food companies have partnered with IBM to create
a Blockchain for tracking food globally through its supply chain.
• Real-time data will be captured at every point, on every single food product.
The Food Trust Blockchain, which includes Nestlé SA, Dole Food Co.,
Unilever, and several others.
• These companies have been collaborating with IBM on the initiative since
2016 and began conducting trials of the product in August of last year.
• Their goal is to improve the companies’ ability to identify issues involved
with food recalls, such as tracing outbreaks more quickly to limit customer
risk. Walmart appears to have joined the initiative after the outbreak of
salmonella in the supply chain last year.