New technologies are presenting promising opportunities for improvement across the supply chain. Using blockchain in the supply chain has the potential to improve supply chain transparency and traceability as well as reduce administrative costs.
The supply chain sector has been
identified as one of the sectors where blockchain technology holds great
potential. Many supply chain use cases are likely to satisfy the minimal
requirements for blockchain use cases:
- Multiple parties need to reach a consensus on shared data
- Transactions need to be checked for validity on a technical and economic level
- The use case is delineated and well understood
One particularly promising use case is
supply chain tracking. A comprehensive tracking system could make it possible
to trace food “from farm to fork,” measure the ecological footprint of products
in real-time and implement innovative profit-sharing models within complex
supply chains. The Blockchain Research Lab evaluates the potential of
blockchain technology for supply chain tracking as part of the publicly funded.
For any given use case, it is important to identify the expected benefits of applying blockchain technology. The potential benefits are manifold. Blockchain can enable decentralization and transparency, increase security within the system, and act as a powerful catalyst to foster change in complex systems.
To bring these benefits to life,
however, the blockchain must be tailored to the use case. The real-life
complexities of a supply chain must be mapped to a technical system, its
objects, and its users. This entails several specific requirements which
influence the selection of the most appropriate blockchain technology,
particularly whether public or private blockchain should be used, and the
design of the blockchain system. Particularly important factors are the
capability to define diverse assets with complex relationships, a sufficient
degree of confidentiality and flexibility, the availability of fine-grained
user roles, and a transaction throughput that can satisfy the requirements of
the use case. Supply chain blockchains can also benefit from advanced sharding
capabilities that make it possible to archive information about products that
have reached their end of life.
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