Blockchain

Auburn University RFID Lab partners with GS1 US and industry to explore the use of RFID and blockchain to improve supply chain efficiency.

It’s not only the growth of e-commerce, but also the ever-tightening delivery timeframes that have logistics pros eyeing emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, blockchain and the Internet of Things. The challenge is to determine which of these can alleviate concerns like spiraling transportation costs and pulling together final-mile delivery resources.

Professor Shereazad Jimmy Gandhi discusses top trends and issues in supply chain management.

This new survey of supply chain professionals reveals top goals, challenges, and tech investment priorities.

Many Blockchain implementations fail because inadequate consideration is given to the complexity of scaling and managing the ecosystem

Annually, the Automotive Industry loses billions of dollars due to supply chain mismanagement, Blockchain, as a disruptive technology, enhances the ability to identify and track transactions digitally and share that information through distributed ledgers.

The rapid pace of improvements in blockchain technology means that within one to two years, blockchain could provide a solution to many of the challenges faced by the automotive industry today.

Whether inside the four walls or between locations, the pharma supply chain is becoming increasingly complicated. The reasons range from new Federal regulations to increasing demand for delivering more drugs faster than ever before. This is a game changer.

During the two-day event, more than 80 hackers on 18 teams competed to create solutions that applied GS1 Standards to technologies including blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and others.

With IBM Sterling and Red Hat OpenShift, clients can build intelligent, self-correcting, Watson AI- and IBM Blockchain-powered supply chains and modernize existing supply chain applications.

The technology available to the cold chain networks is changing what’s possible. With spoilage rates reduced and fraud eliminated, the innovations have a compelling business case.

Andrey Zhulin, co-founder and CEO of Insola, believes that blockchain technology should bring real value beyond the hype, and it should create new business opportunities, decrease costs and increase transparency, it can transform the whole economy, across all supply chain industries.

This white paper details the challenges and technologies shaping the future supply chain and why companies and their supply chains must be agile and able to pivot and adapt to stay ahead of the competition.

Leading tech, telecom, pharma, beverage and manufacturing companies collaborate with IBM and Chainyard to streamline supply chain management using a new blockchain network; Anheuser-Busch InBev, Cisco GlaxoSmithKline, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric and Vodafone to tackle supplier information challenges.

IBM and Chainyard today announced Trust Your Supplier (TYS), a new blockchain network designed to improve supplier qualification, validation, onboarding and life cycle information management.