Hyperledger Case Studies How ScanTrust Brought Transparency to the Supply Chain with Hyperledger Sawtooth

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How ScanTrust Brought Transparency to the Supply Chain with Hyperledger Sawtooth

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Supply Chain Visibility Track & Trace of Assets
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
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. Read More
About 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. Read More
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. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Supply Chain Visibility

Track & Trace of Assets

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

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 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.

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.

Impact #1	The ScanTrust team was impressed by how fast the infrastructure is.
Impact #2	The team appreciated the clear feedback on when a transaction is committed, flexible data storage and the simplicity of writing a transaction processor.
Impact #3	The Hyperledger Sawtooth team was there to answer their questions.

Impact #1

The ScanTrust team was impressed by how fast the infrastructure is.

Impact #2

The team appreciated the clear feedback on when a transaction is committed, flexible data storage and the simplicity of writing a transaction processor.

Impact #3

The Hyperledger Sawtooth team was there to answer their questions.

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How ScanTrust Brought Transparency to the Supply Chain with Hyperledger Sawtooth

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