Transportation and Logistics Industry:
There is a substantial amount of trapped value in logistics today, mainly due to the logistics industry's fragmented and competitiveness. With so many stakeholders engaged in the supply chain, this often results in low transparency, unstandardized procedures, data silos and a variety of technology adoption rates.
Many sections of the value chain of logistics are also linked to manual procedures that regulatory authorities require. For instance, to adhere to customs procedures, businesses often have to depend on manual data entry and paper-based paperwork. All of this makes it hard to monitor commodity provenance and shipment status as they move along the supply chain, causing global trade friction. Blockchain can possibly assist overcome these logistics frictions and make significant gains in the effectiveness of logistics processes. This technology can also allow information transparency and access between appropriate stakeholders in the supply chain, establishing a single source of reality. Furthermore, the confidence needed to communicate data between stakeholders is improved by the inherent safety mechanisms of blockchain technology.
In addition, by powering leaner, more automated, and error-free procedures, blockchain can attain cost savings. It can accelerate the physical flow of products as well as adding visibility and predictability to logistics activities. Provenance monitoring of products can provide a scale for accountable and sustainable supply chains and assist tackle counterfeiting of products.