{"id":246797,"date":"2022-03-13T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T11:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imarticus.org\/?p=246797"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:34:59","slug":"supply-chain-planning-blockchain-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imarticus.org\/blog\/supply-chain-planning-blockchain-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Planning: Blockchain to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

New technologies are showing optimistic prospects for advancement across the supply chain planning. Blockchain can improve supply chain traceability and transparency while reducing administrative expenses. Corporates are realizing that blockchain-driven innovations in the supply chain, have the potential to offer immense business value as they reduce risk, increase transparency, and improve the efficiency of the overall supply chain management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the increasing popularity of blockchain, startups, as well as large-scale corporations, are experimenting with this technology in different sectors apart from financial services. Imarticus Learning has come up with a<\/span> Supply Chain Analytics course<\/span><\/a> that will help young professionals to build a <\/span>supply chain management career<\/span> and learn about the operations and supply chain industry from the industry leaders and the experienced faculties of DoMS and E-learning Centre, IIT Roorkee. This article will give you a cursory understanding of blockchain and its benefits in supply chain planning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is blockchain?<\/b><\/p>\n

Blockchain is a kind of shared database, but it is fundamentally different from a typical database in its method of storing information. While a traditional database usually reserves its data into tables, blockchains store data in blocks and connect them via cryptography. It enters fresh data into a new block and chains it onto the previous block after it gets filled. As a result, the data gets linked together in chronological order with blockchain technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can use blockchain to store various types of information, but its primary use has been a ledger for financial transactions till now. The most famous example of this is Bitcoin, where blockchain has been used in a decentralized manner. As a result, all users collectively keep control instead of any individual or particular group retaining control over it. Also, decentralized blockchains are inflexible, and hence the data entered cannot be reversed in any way. This is why all transactions in Bitcoin are perpetually recorded and can be viewed by everyone.<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Benefits of using blockchain in supply chain planning<\/b><\/p>\n

Companies can use blockchain to effectively manage the supply chain by recording relevant information, such as time, date, price, quality, location, etc. The availability of these details within the blockchain has the potential to lower losses from the counterfeit and grey market, improve compliance over outsourced contract manufacturing and visibility, increase traceability of the material supply chain, and enhance the user’s prowess in responsible manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the main benefits of using blockchain in supply chain planning are:<\/strong><\/p>\n