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How ScanTrust Brought Transparency to the Supply Chain with Hyperledger Sawtooth
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Track & Trace of Assets
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
ScanTrust, an enterprise SaaS platform that connects millions of products to the Internet by giving each of these products a unique digital identity in the cloud, wanted to enhance its offering in supply chain traceability. The company aimed to help their client, Cambio Coffee, bring more transparency to their ethical trade business. Cambio Coffee, a direct trade organic coffee company, wanted to provide their customers with a way to trace the journey of their coffee from harvest in Peru to shipment, to roasting in Shanghai and then to delivery to their home. Each stop on the journey needed to be recorded on a tamper-proof system to validate their claims of building a direct link from coffee farmers to consumers.
About The Customer
Cambio Coffee is a direct trade organic coffee company that prides itself on building a direct link from coffee farmers to consumers. The company wanted to provide their customers with a way to trace the journey of their coffee from harvest in Peru to shipment, to roasting in Shanghai and then to delivery to their home. Each stop on the journey needed to be recorded on a tamper-proof system to validate their claims. The company started putting the ScanTrust codes on their packs in May 2018, to an enthusiastic response from customers. Currently, the roaster in Shanghai and the delivery company enter data onto the blockchain. Cambio Coffee plans to roll out the feature to the shipping company and eventually the farmers, to cover the whole supply chain.
The Solution
ScanTrust used Hyperledger Sawtooth to build a blockchain-enabled traceability function for their existing application. The architecture involves a 3-node Hyperledger Sawtooth cluster; each runs a “coffee chain” Python transaction processor. ScanTrust combines information provided by the brand (like nutritional values) with data from the blockchain (events in the supply chain) and shows it to the consumers in their custom application. The team felt that Sawtooth was the best fit for their needs because of its focus on IoT implementations. The ScanTrust team had been learning about Hyperledger projects and frameworks for some time, and once the project with Cambio Coffee came up, they quickly put together a proof of concept. It was well received, so the team rolled it out and started integrating it into their platform.
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