An end-to-end traceability solution to optimize your supply chain

Today’s supply chains are increasingly complex and fragile, and are subject to unforeseen disruptions, growing costs and regulatory compliance demands. Businesses seek a unified view across their supplier network to easily track product provenance, inventory, shipments, supplier and product sustainability, and sourcing information.  With the IBM Sterling® Transparent Supply solution and management system, you can build immutability with a distributed and shared ledger to transact with your supply chain partners in a more trusted and efficient way. In a world where speed, accuracy and connectivity define optimal supply chains, IBM Sterling Transparent Supply enables product-specific traceability, transparency, insights and permissioned data access at the enterprise level.

Features

• **Trace: **Securely trace the location and status of products—upstream and downstream—across the supply chain.
• **Documents: **Upload, manage, edit and share any type of document reliably to optimize information management, certify provenance and help ensure authenticity.
• Consumer: Empower end users with product journeys, traceability and ingredient information to influence decisions about what to buy, where to shop and which brands to choose.

Benefits

• **Quality assurance: **Certify raw materials and product origins to validate their provenance, demonstrate quality control and brand differentiators to consumers.
• **Improved forecasting: **Improve product traceability throughout the supply chain in near real time. Optimize inventory control with automatic replenishment.
• **Quick response times: **Accelerate time-to-value with multi-party collaboration around product visibility. Enable trusted and verifiable product tracing, distribution and recalls.
• **Reduced friction: **Improve industry standards with the use of blockchain to reduce the costs of dispute resolutions, product recalls, compliance and documentation sharing.
• **Extensive automation: **Shorten the timeframe to achieve automation through embedded intelligence and smart workflows.