A Fully Traceable Supply Chain Based on Smart Contracts

Traceability of any food item becomes more and more important as supply chains grow steadily more complex. Storing all the individual steps of a product, its ingredients and additional information e.g. sensor data in one central database is not feasible, as it must be fault proof and tamper-resistant. Smart Contracts in combination with Blockchains could possibly be the solution to bring a fully traceable supply chain to life.

Developing a prototype of a supply chain from wine-field to bottle based on the Ethereum Blockchain and Smart Contracts. The individual interactions should be visualized in a web-based UI.

Theory:

• What are smart contracts (and Blockchains)
• Research of existing Blockchain solutions for supply chains

Practical:

• Sketching and programming the required structure of Smart Contracts in the programming language Solidity
• Building concept of a web-based frontend to visualize the individual interactions with the Smart Contracts

TBD