The management of today’s complex, global supply chains is a daunting task.
It is this complexity, and the need for much greater transparency, that is creating such interest in the application of blockchain to supply chains.
It offers an opportunity to tackle some of the perennial issues that compromise supply chain effectiveness, such as the lack of traceability.
To gain a deeper understanding of blockchain maturity in the supply chain domain, and to identify use cases for different sectors, we surveyed nearly 450 organizations.
These organizations from across the manufacturing, consumer products, and retail industries have blockchain implementations underway at the proof-of-concept, pilot, or at-scale stage.
We assessed their approach to the blockchain, the applications they are implementing, and the challenges they face in scaling their initiatives, with this report looking at three main areas:
Organizations can use the analysis in this report of applications being implemented and the characteristics of pace-setting organizations to understand how feasible this technology is for them and how to go about implementing their own blockchain programs.
With that clear picture, they will be ready to strike as the blockchain hype increasingly turns to a reality.