Data – the world’s most essential ingredient

Today’s food industry struggles with visibility into ingredient origins and improper product handling during transit and storage, which lead to quality and safety concerns, food waste and damage to consumer trust and brand reputation. Increasing customer demand for sustainable sourcing, product provenance and supply chain transparency, along with legal and regulatory requirements, emphasizes the need for food traceability data. IBM Food Trust® is a collaborative network involving growers, processors, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, retailers and others that can enhance visibility and accountability across the food supply chain. Built on IBM Blockchain®, this platform connects participants through a permissioned, immutable and shared record of food provenance, transactions and processing details. It enables product tracing across the entire supply chain, sharing documentation securely with business partners and building consumer trust in your brand. 

Features

• **Trace: **The Trace module enables member organizations to trace their products along their supply chains and share that data with their authorized supply chain partners.
• **Documents: **The Documents module enables your organization to upload, view and share all types of documents, for example facility certificates and audit reports. You can authorize specific organizations to view specific documents and revoke the privileges when necessary.
• **Consumer: **The Consumer module is a customizable, progressive web application that enables your brand to share product stories with customers by using permissioned blockchain data that consumers can view.

Benefits

Improve your company’s reputation for food safety and quality with the Food Trust traceability system and more.

• **Reduce food waste: **Better track both wasted and rescued food while minimizing waste hot spots by using key data elements.
• **Meet compliance requirements: **Ensure safety and regulatory compliance and avoid product recalls.
• **Improve supply chain efficiency: **Run a more efficient food network by helping to eliminate bottlenecks in the supply chain.
• **Drive sustainability efforts: **Increase awareness of sustainability opportunities and practices in each step of the manufacturing processes of the food chain.
• **Improve safety monitoring: **Monitor and trace food products in the supply chain to accurately judge remaining shelf life.
• **Prevent food fraud: **Make your supply chains less susceptible to fraud and errors with end-to-end traceability records.