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From YouTube: Integrated Supply Chain Ecosystems: Leading Industries Towards More Open & Trusted... Robin Pilling

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Integrated Supply Chain Ecosystems: Leading Industries Towards More Open & Trusted Data Sharing - Robin Pilling, Dis3bute - The Distributed Technology Company

With global supply chains becoming increasingly complex and interdependent across industries, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that most companies still struggle to understand supply chain processes as part of the entire industry value chain. Integrated supply chain ecosystems hence have a tremendous potential to create more transparent and resilient supply chain processes across a full network of value chain participants. However, industries still struggle with sharing data across multiple companies as a key driver of these ecosystems. Technology experts argue that blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) could help to solve the data sharing problem. The presentation discusses various industry use cases and provides reasoning for integrated supply chain ecosystems as nurturing ground for multi-party business application development on Hyperledger.

To learn more about Hyperledger, the open source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments. Which serves as a neutral home for various distributed ledger frameworks including Hyperledger Fabric, Sawtooth, Indy, as well as tools like Hyperledger Caliper and libraries like Hyperledger Ursa click here: https://www.hyperledger.org/

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First of all, thank you hyperledger for inviting me today to speak here at the hyperledger global forum, I'm robin founder of distribute, which is a specialized I.t consulting company that helps connected industries with the digital transformation journeys by utilizing distributed technologies.

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I got um in touch with hyperledger the first time when I was still working at daimler, where I built the mobility blockchain platform together with four european blockchain startups. That was just spinned off out of daimler by my ex-boss, dr hari behrens.

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I work mostly on different activities in automotive, pharmaceuticals and supply chains, and I'm still in touch with hyperledger as part of my activities um at the mobility open, blockchain initiative, where I help as a technical lead to connect uh working group efforts with the deployment of what we so call mobi net: a joint service infrastructure for future mobility.

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If you're interested in that, you can also find a speech that I've done together with jim mason in the hyperledger public special interest group before getting involved with enterprise blockchain. um I was a development engineer at diamond mercedes-benz, where I mostly focused on the development of autonomous vehicles, vehicle concepts for future transportation solutions.

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My first exposure was decentralized technologies and distributed systems was actually in 2014 when I was still a graduate researcher at national taiwan university and working on payment mechanisms for intelligent partner power networks. But today we don't want to talk that much about automotive or um power networks.

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We will want to take a look on integrated supply chain ecosystems and how open and trusted data sharing can lead to what's more integration in the industry, so I mean the corona pandemic has shown us to be not only a crisis of public safety, but also a crisis of collaborative data, sharing.

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It's clear that the effect of the virus on society and the global economy was unpresented, with serious consequences for the entire industry, similar to past crisis. Again, it has not only questions our public supply systems, but also data sharing mechanisms across companies, institutions and economies.

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Taiwan, where I have studied, for example, has demonstrated how to protect the country against the outbreak of the virus by utilizing more transparent and more integrated data sharing mechanisms that can help economies to protect its industry during times of uncertainties and crisis.

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So what is the problem that industries still face today with supply chains becoming more more integrated, and I mean it's clear throughout all the industries that we are living in a world that is becoming increasingly complex and interdependent, um not only across um uh companies but also industries and with the or what the pandemic, especially as shown here is that most companies still think silos, rather than understanding them themselves and their supply chain processes as part of an entire value chain.

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In contrast to a supply chain of a single company, though, a value chain describes all activities that are needed within an entire ecosystem to create a product from its early raw material inputs to the delivery of the finished good to the customer.

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So there definitely is a tremendous potential for integrated supply chain ecosystems to power economic crows. However, industries still seem to struggle with sharing data across multiple companies.

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As a key driver of those ecosystems, so before we are talking about the struggle and the problems that I have seen working together with these companies, let me provide you with a concrete example from the automotive world that I came across or worked together with bmw as part of the supply chain working group at mobi, so supply chain networks in the automotive industry deal with numerous participants and parts on multiple tiers that are spread across several geographical locations, similar to the picture that we've just seen before, due to their high complexity and more and more governments focusing on data protection, automotive supply chains often lack transparency and responsiveness.

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However, today legal authorities such as the federal motor transport authority of germany or the national highway traffic safety administration, the nitsa of usa, start to require more end-to-end traceability of parts in order to not run again into scandals like the dieselgate that we have experienced over the over the last years right.

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So this is particularly um important for the identification of defective and back then manipulative parts and in recalls that involve multiple suppliers around the world.

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So what you're seeing here basically is the blockchain solution which bmw proposed as a decentralized supply chain, traceability, application that enables the creation, monitoring and sharing of a unique digital representation of all physical physical parts across a supply chain network using hyperledger uh fabric right. So what you see in the in the bottom is the physical parts.

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Then you have an interface um and what um bmw proposed in their solution and demonstrated in the study is basically the digital backend of beckons or the enterprise blockchain solution, where they have shown that enterprise, blockchain technologies or hyperledger can indeed help with trusted data processing and sharing of critical automotive parts across various um supply chain. Participants in a reliable and immutable manner, so um integrated um track and trace applications already exist. But how come they still struggle to being adopted right?

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um So I mean data sharing is not new um or a new idea in supply chains. However, most of the past initiatives um focused mainly on bilateral supply agreements and point-to-point data sharing.

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So, although we may have a back-end of back-ends or a business support system, a decentralized business support system for for a supplier, network, um integration and interoperability uh by setting industry standards is still far some far away right.

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um So it's it's not the technology itself, so much, but companies that I have worked with are mostly concerned about protecting confidential data, defining a common common data standards which basically center around data operability and data control.

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I mean, having talked to various clients, what I've seen over and over again is due to the changing dynamics and the real real-time data data requirements of global supply chains.

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Participants really struggle to align on dynamic data, ontologies and industry standards, um and mostly that makes them more often go back to negotiating um standards bilaterally. That then um don't help ecosystems to to scale.

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Besides, I mean um we have, and but I think especially in the enterprise blockchain world, we are I'm getting better and better better by this, and now we have understood that supply chain ecosystems by nature are more than decentralized and that blockchain enterprise solutions such as hyperledger fabric, can definitely help with a consistent view of data and lineage across multiple organizations by use utilizing blockchain logic, and this brings us actually to to the opportunity that we that we have um right now, I'm saying um we have.

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We have understood that solving the integrated supply chain problem is not necessarily something that you you will get done with a centralized platform right so advising different customers and industries on next generation I.t technologies.

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I learned that the success of supply chain ecosystem lies in cooperatives, which depend on a clear definition of joint and mutually accepted business use cases that arise from these ecosystem activities as industry consortiums around the world share similar business and governance problems that you see here, they have together, come up with best practices or best practice sharing within already established industry consortius in farmer you see farmer ledger in the mobility world. You see moby in the telco world you see ccban and in in the german industry around german automotive makers.

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um You also see the katena x, um automotive network and gaiax coming up right now, um and I mean those organizations um by now already have helped um global supply chain ecosystems to accelerate by the standards they have defined.

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What we need to do today is we need to leverage the work. Those organizations have done, encourage a best practice sharing between industry, consortiums that I see very important to develop globally, accept accepted standards and mess mechanisms for cross-industry data sharing in the future, but setting standards is only one part um or only one um side of the coin right, so it's all good that standards have been developed, but they only get being implemented and being adopted when they move from paper to code.

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So what I want to encourage in the hyperledger community that we have here where we have incredible developers and so on, is um to work together with cooperatives to find a way to transfer the knowledge that has been defined through industry standards into code into repositories where we can contribute together.

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This is what I wanted to share with you, so it's blockchain enterprise blockchain is not a singles like a single sports as a team sports. So it's it's hyperledger. So let us connect let's come together. Let's contribute code together, let's connect standards and that's why I'm at least here- and I want to thank you for tuning in to my presentation- if you have any more questions or want to talk bilateral, feel free to shoot an email to our pilling distribute.com, and I see you later.