Supply Chain


Finance

Coffee Giant Behind Folgers, Café Bustelo Taps IBM for Track-and-Trace Blockchain

IBM is giving its blockchain track-and-trace capabilities the social-impact treatment with a provenance application focused on coffee.

Coffee berries (Rodrigo Flores/Unsplash)

Finance

Mercedes Maker Daimler Tests Blockchain for Supply-Chain Data Sharing

Ocean Protocol has completed a proof-of-concept with Daimler, showing how the Mercedes-Benz maker can begin monetizing data across its supply chains.

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Tech

Afghanistan Approves Blockchain Project to Help Tackle Scourge of Counterfeit Meds

Fantom is launching a pilot to help combat Afghanistan's counterfeit drugs problem using its blockchain to trace products along the supply chain.

Shopping street in Kabul, Afghanistan (Jono Photography/Shutterstock)

Markets

US Air Force Gives Blockchain Firm $1.5M to Build Supply Chain Network

SIMBA Chain, a blockchain-as-a-service company, has two years and $1.5 million to further build out its supply chain logistics platform for the United States Air Force.

SIMBA Chain is setting up a node at Tinker Air Force Base, home to the USAF's 448th Supply Chain Management Wing (Greg L. Davis/U.S. Air Force)

Markets

Nonprofit Energy Consortium Trials Blockchain Management for Wastewater Tracking

A U.S. oil and gas consortium says a blockchain-based automated platform tracking wastewater reduced transportation costs.

Oil rig (Credit: Moritz Kindler / Unsplash)

Tech

Amazon Patents Blockchain-Based Product Authenticator

Amazon has patented a distributed ledger-based system for proving the authenticity of consumer goods.

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Markets

TradeLens to Digitize India's Largest Private Port Operator

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone is set to utilize the IBM-Maersk platform to speed up processes after COVID-19 highlighted issues with the existing system.

Credit: Shutterstock/MOLPIX

Finance

Tradeshift Proposes Plan to Protect Denmark’s Supply Chains From COVID-19 Crisis

Tradeshift wants the Danish government to try out a supply-chain relief plan that involves the fintech unicorn's blockchain-based trade finance platform.

PORT OF CALL: Tradeshift wants the Danish government to pony up funds for a supply chain relief plan. (Credit: Markus Spiske on Unsplash)

Markets

Dole Plans to Use Blockchain Food Tracing in All Divisions by 2025

Pineapple and produce purveyor Dole wants to expand its use of blockchain to track goods from all three business divisions in just five years.

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Finance

Why Tech-Minded Climate Groups See COVID-19 as a Trial Run for Massive Change

Reaching the Paris Agreement's lofty climate goals will require the decentralization of decision-making at all levels, say INATBA and others.

EMPTY: Coronavirus lockdowns have cut into global carbon emissions – but not by as much as is required of hitting Paris Agreement climate goals. (Credit: Shutterstock)