Track: Information Technology/Information Systems

Abstract

Undoubtedly, supply chain operations management is becoming more demanding for product tracing due to regulatory frameworks and fraudulent incidents. Therefore, rapidly increasing challenges arise in transparency, tracking, and data storage in many product supply chains. Especially in the case of wine supply chains, timely and accurate traceability is vital, as this industry is plagued by frequent counterfeiting activities that pose significant risks to both consumer health and business viability and prosperity. Blockchain technology can serve as a crucial aid for constructing modern wine supply chains by offering increased security and trust between all supply chain stakeholders. This paper presents a framework for developing Ethereum-based Blockchain distributed applications and demonstrates a use case for creating such an application for a wine traceability system. The developed distributed application enables the participants of the wine supply chain to track wines by adding and monitoring data about each individual wine bottle's production, fermentation, aging, bottling, and distribution, providing full supervision of its production and distribution. The demonstrated use case shows the different types of users and their interactions with the system to fully comprehend the advantages it can offer to all supply chain stakeholders as well as consumers and controlling authorities.