February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
By documenting cost, labor, waste, and emission monitoring on a blockchain at every supply chain point, management can be disrupted. We can even track the source of a product to ensure the entire supply chain is conflict free and adheres to fair-trade policies. Blockchains can also be used to check the quantum effects a product has on the environment, by recording its ecological and carbon footprints in a continuous manner.
Tech giant Microsoft has teamed up with Mojix, a radio frequency identification (RFID) start-up company, to develop product identification and track from the origin to delivery, using an Ethereum blockchain called project manifest. The primary research is done by a team of professors and students ...