Blockchain+supply chain reflects the demand chain and creates a new model of supply chain development!

20 18 A subversive technological revolution is coming crazily, and the protagonist is the blockchain.

Blockchain technology is considered as the next generation of subversive core technology after steam engine, electric power and Internet. If the steam engine releases people's productivity, electricity solves people's basic living needs, and the Internet completely changes the way of information transmission, then the blockchain, as a machine to build trust, will probably completely change the way of value transmission in the whole human society.

The medical, financial and intelligent manufacturing industries have started the "blockchain+"revolution, which will undoubtedly have an important impact on the supply chain. Supply chain management and supply chain finance, because the market scale is large enough to meet the characteristics of multi-trust subjects, multi-party cooperation, medium and low frequency transactions and complete business logic, are the places where natural blockchains play a role.

First, the problems in the traditional supply chain.

Supply chain management has a long span and asymmetric information.

At present, the upstream and downstream span of the supply chain is large, involving many enterprises. The management ability and influence of core enterprises on the whole supply chain are limited, the management efficiency drops sharply and the management cost rises.

The production cycle and supply cycle of products are complex, fragmented and geographically dispersed, and traditional technologies and concepts can no longer adapt to today's commodity production and supply.

General enterprises can manage 1 to 2 suppliers at most. With the continuous refinement of global division of labor, the number of suppliers has doubled and expanded all over the world. Core enterprises cannot control the goods circulating by upstream and downstream supply enterprises in real time.

In the era of big data, information asymmetry will put enterprises at a disadvantage and even reduce the value of the entire supply chain ecosystem.

The ability to trace the source of information is very weak.

Due to the lack of transparency of enterprises in the supply chain, there is no effective and reliable method between buyers and sellers to verify the true value of the products they buy and sell.

This also means that the price paid by the buyer cannot truly reflect the cost of the product, which invisibly increases the overall cost of the supply chain.

At present, the supply chain can't trace the illegal activities such as fake and shoddy goods, illegal labor and money laundering in all aspects of the supply chain.

It is difficult to obtain the whole chain data of the supply chain.

The enterprise information systems involved in the supply chain are scattered in the hands of different suppliers, and the information such as procurement, production, circulation, sales and logistics is completely separated. There is no information platform to store, process, share and analyze this information, which limits the potential value of rich data and information, and a large amount of information is in a state of being unable to be collected or accessed.

At the same time, it also leads to the difficulty and complexity of checking and auditing these information, and the information interaction is not smooth, which requires manual repeated reconciliation, and also increases the audit cost of transaction payment and accounting period.

Second, blockchain+supply chain can solve many problems.

Update information in real time and eliminate third parties.

Blockchain can build a platform including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, logistics and other supply chain links. On this platform, all enterprises form an alliance, record logistics, information flow and capital flow in the chain, track and supervise all the dynamics of the supply chain in real time, and realize collaborative work.

Make the whole supply chain transparent and visual, so that multiple participants in each transaction can view the same transaction records, verify their identities and confirm the transactions without a third-party intermediary.

Easy to track

Turn it into ledger information for all participants to enjoy the whole life cycle of the transaction. It is based on the state of information rather than the exchange of information. The vague information in the past is now clearly visible.

At the same time, the blockchain is a publicly issued general ledger, and the general ledger is a decentralized structural feature. Neither party owns the ownership of the account book, nor can it manipulate the data at will. Blockchain can trace the whole process of commodity production.

Third, the new model of supply chain finance.

Because the blockchain breaks the data islands of various enterprises, big data will have more data sources to hand over to the supply chain, which greatly improves the stock and quality of data and makes big data play a better role. At the same time, the non-tamperability of blockchain data also enhances the credibility of data, making it possible for enterprises to collect credit by data, thus promoting the establishment and prosperity of the big data trading market.

In terms of supply chain finance, the bill platform built by blockchain technology can be combined with supply chain finance business to realize the functions of bill financing, issuance, bill splitting, statistical statements, clearing and settlement. Digital bills can be paid and split quickly in an open and transparent manner under the witness of many parties, so that the credit of core enterprises can be transferred to the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, creating a new model of supply chain finance.

Blockchain can benefit every link of the supply chain and improve the efficiency of supply chain management. Product supply chain cooperation mode based on blockchain After the blockchain is added, data will be shared among supply chain participants, and the whole supply chain can form a complete and smooth information flow, ensuring that participants can find problems existing in the operation of the supply chain system in time and find targeted solutions to the problems, thus improving the overall efficiency of supply chain management.

In this regard, blockchain technology has greatly accelerated the speed of product traceability and product recall, and reduced the quality risk of products. They will make the manufacturing industry more agile and realize customized orders-in fact, they will turn the supply chain into a demand chain. Since the operation mode of the supply chain is closer to the demand chain in this case, a trust dilemma like this may force manufacturers to pay attention to blockchain solutions.

In the future, the supply chain will be more dynamic, flexible and customer-oriented, and geographical location and long-term cooperation will no longer be so important.