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Module-based approach 6
Trace 7
Fresh insights 8
Certifications 9
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What is
Food Trust?
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Brand story
Through increased visibility, empower
consumers, retailers, manufacturers, suppliers,
and producers with confidence and trust in
companies that we purchase and consume our
food from.
Food freshness
Gain unprecedented visibility into supply chain
data for valuable insights and analysis, identifying
inefficiencies and ensuring quality of goods sold.
Food safety
Securely trace products in seconds to mitigate
waste, cross-contamination, and spread of
foodborne illness.
Food fraud
Enable full transparency by digitizing transaction
records and storing them in a decentralized and
immutable manner, eliminating the opportunity
for fraud across the food system.
Reduce waste
Share and manage data across the food supply
chain, helping to increase efficiency, reduce
product loss, and optimize your ecosystem.
Sustainability
Digitize essential certificates and documents
to optimize information management, certify
provenance, and ensure authenticity.
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Food Trust
with blockchain
Hyperledger fabric
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Module-based
approach
Trace
Provide the provenance of your product through
immediate access to end-to-end data. Trace also
shows real-time location and status, and allow
expedited product recalls.
Fresh Insights
Connect disparate product data to draw insights
and gain visibility into inventory across the supply
chain, compare metrics across location, view dwell
Fresh insights
time and time since production/to expiration,
and calculate at-risk inventory. You can identify
inefficiencies, improve freshness, and reduce
product losses.
Certifications
Digitize business critical certificates and
inspection documents to optimize efficiency for
information management, certify provenance,
and ensure authenticity.
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Module-based approach
Trace
This module enables participant organizations To use the Food Trust solution to trace food
to quickly and accurately determine the path products, data on food products needs to be
that a given shipment has taken. uploaded to the network by participants.
Trace benefits
• Verify provenance and credibility in seconds
• Ability to quickly identify when food is
contaminated and react immediately
• Ability to prove your product is safe during a
foodborne outbreak
• Reduce product waste
• Increased customer satisfaction and trust
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Module-based approach
Fresh insights
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Module-based approach
Certifications
With the Certifications module, To simplify this task, Food Trust offers a holistic approach with the
documents can be checked regularly, Certifications module to help track and store all certificates.
or as they are needed in the event of a
The designated Certificate Manager is authorized to upload and
safety investigation.
manage the organization’s facility certificates as well as other
business-enabling documents, such as authorizations, licenses
Certificates and related documents can help and inspection results. Conflicting or outdated certificates can be
establish that a facility is properly inspected, easily flagged for review, which serves both suppliers who require
that livestock have been treated according certification to do business and buyers who want to know the
to law, that a supplier is legally able to do certification status of a sourcing farm or factory.
business, and that a farm is certified as
conforming to industry standards.
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Module-based approach
Data entry
and access
Visit the Developer Zone to learn about the data upload process
and more: https://github.com/IBM/IFT-Developer-Zone/wiki
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What is Food Trust? Food Trust with blockchain Module-based approach Core-blockchain capabilities Governance model
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Food Trust
core-blockchain capabilities
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Food Trust
Governance Model
A secure ecosystem and Data that you upload, Guiding the future of
a trusted community own, and control the food ecosystem
Every participant is vetted to You’re in full control of the data Everyone has their unique
confirm their identity and ensure you share on IBM Food Trust. business needs. The Food Trust
that all operate on the ecosystem’s And, as the owner of the data, you Advisory Council ensures that
principles. This means that your determine what you share, when all of these needs are met— and
experience with fellow community you share it, and who gets to see it. that the solution continually
members is as trustworthy as your evolves to provide participants
experience with the network itself. Guard against collusion with value well into the future.
The trust model of the solution The end goal: to reduce friction
Interoperability... describes the set of guarantees points by creating a trusted and
and beyond that reinforces the security, transparent food system.
Because it is built on the open- privacy, and integrity in a network
standard, open-governance Linux of widely diverse participants.
Hyperledger Fabric, IBM Food Our model promotes collective The Food Trust Governance
Trust can connect to the systems responsibility, while guarding Model is continually re-evaluated
and programs you have today, against collusion – maintaining and updated based on expansion
and can scale with you to connect the integrity of the network. of the solution, member needs,
to new blockchain and non- technology innovation, and
blockchain networks in the future. regulatory changes.
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Network and
data security
Hyperledger Fabric requires no proof- From a network and data security point of view, your IT
of-work or other processor-intensive personnel can take the following steps to understand
computations to guarantee the and prepare your environment:
legitimacy and permanence of network
• Identify relevant supply-chain processes
transactions, and features a thoroughly
permissioned network. The owner of • Identify users, including automated users of
the data controls who can see it on a the solution
Hyperledger Fabric network.
• Estimate and assign technical resources
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Onboarding
and support
Onboarding onto IBM Food Trust requires uploading data about your
product lifecycle: from harvesting to manufacturing to transportation,
by item, location, and purchase order.
To get started on the solution, there is no need to know blockchain. We work with
data you are already using and with standards that you already know. It starts with
you and your data.
Which onboarding and support options Which data can be added into IBM Food Trust?
are available?
• Master data describe organization facility locations
• Self Guided Onboarding and trade items, and are expected to be largely static
Onboard independently using self-service
• Business transactions include purchase orders,
education and community forum
advance shipping notices, and receipt confirmations
• Virtually Guided Onboarding
• EPCIS events correspond to the GS1 EPCIS
Interact with experts in pre-defined education
standard that describe real world events
modules and for additional questions
happening across your supply chain
• Assisted Onboarding
• Certificate data describe facility certificates, such
Receive a dedicated expert to guide you
as audit dates and scores, and expiration dates
through the full onboarding experience
• Payload data include additional food related data (e.g.
• Standard Support for IBM Food Trust
temperature, humidity) that can be linked to EPCIS
Access the digital support portal with
events data to enrich insights into the supply chain
enhanced transparency into ticket resolution,
and receive assistance by preferred
method: chat, email, forum, or phone What are the ways to integrate my data?
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Building
your team
Once you have access to the Onboarding to the Food Team roles include:
solution, you will onboard your Trust Ecosystem:
organization by building and Account owner
authorizing a team to register and • Prepare your supply chain User can manage organization
integrate a pertinent information expert(s) and data expert(s) account settings and subscriptions
of data.
• Identifying your facilities
and products
Account administrator
The IBM Food Trust solution User can add, delete, and modify
assigns predefined roles that grant • Defining your product scenarios users and can modify organization
users authorization to execute settings
specific network tasks on behalf of • Uploading data and
their organization. setting up permissions
Onboarding team member
User(s) can create product
Assigning roles enables account
scenarios and upload data
administrators to easily control the
level of access provided to each
individual user in their organization.
When onboarding new users to the
solution, an account administrator
must assign a role to each user.
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