Food from across the world is available to consumers today, regardless of the season, location, or environment. However, the greater options and accessibility are accompanied by increasing complexity in the food supply chain. With growing data and lengthening ecosystems within the industry, the importance of trust weighs heavier than ever before. From the farmer, processor, retailer, to the consumer, IBM Food Trust™ uses trust to build transparency. The block chain solution is working to ensure that transparency enables the expanding food system. With capabilities to enable safer food, longer product shelf lives, reduced waste, faster traceability, and better access to shared information, IBM Food Trust empowers to meet the new standard for transparency and trust. The solution provides authorized users with immediate access to actionable food supply chain data - from farm to store and ultimately the consumer. The complete history and current location of any food item along with its accompanying information (i.e. certifications, test data, temperature data) can be readily available in seconds. IBM Food Trust provides organization with a set of integrated modules to address the increased complexity and build trust in the industry.

1. Shekhar Jyoti Das
Food Trust

2. Shekhar Jyoti Das
Food from across the world is available to consumers today, regardless of the season,
location, or environment. However, the greater options and accessibility are accompanied
by increasing complexity in the food supply chain.
With growing data and lengthening ecosystems within the industry, the importance of
trust weighs heavier than ever before.
From the farmer, processor, retailer, to the consumer, IBM Food Trust™ uses trust to
build transparency. The block chain solution is working to ensure that transparency
enables the expanding food system.
With capabilities to enable safer food, longer product shelf lives, reduced waste, faster
traceability, and better access to shared information, IBM Food Trust empowers to
meet the new standard for transparency and trust.
The solution provides authorized users with immediate access to actionable food supply
chain data - from farm to store and ultimately the consumer. The complete history and
current location of any food item along with its accompanying information (i.e.
certifications, test data, temperature data) can be readily available in seconds.
IBM Food Trust
IBM Food Trust provides organization with a set of integrated
modules to address the increased complexity and build trust in the
industry.

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Modules Trace Certification Freshness Consumer
Blockchain
Technology
IBM Food Trust provides organization with a set of integrated
modules to address the increased complexity and build trust in the
industry.
Food Supply
Chain Ecosystem

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FOOD SAFETY
Securely trace products in seconds to
mitigate waste, cross-contamination, and
spread of foodborne illness.
REDUCE WASTE
Shares and manages data across the food
supply chain, helping to increase
efficiency, reduce product loss, and
optimize your ecosystem.
FOOD FRESHNESS
Gains unprecedented visibility into supply
chain data for valuable insights and
analysis, identifying inefficiencies and
ensuring quality of goods sold.
SUSTAINABILITY
Digitizes essential certificates and
documents. To optimize information
management, certify Provenance, and
ensure authenticity.

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Food Supply Chain Today
Data sharing limited to 'one up, one down’
without end-to-end transparency
Multiple data formats & sources
Lack of trusted, easily auditable
records
Incomplete information &
inability to effectively
communicate with the
end consumer

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Fragmentation of traditional value chains
New technologies create more transparent value chains that are easier to decompose
functionally
Convergence of traditional industries
New competitors are emerging that compete in specific value chain functions across
industries, driving accelerated industry convergence
Emergence of new ecosystems
New types of ecosystems emerge, displacing traditional industries and underpinning
evolution of seamless sophisticated customer experiences
Disruption in the Retail Industry
Operations Logistics Marketing
& sales
Consumer
experience
R & D
58%
Of global retail executives feel
traditional value chains are
being replaced
44%
Of global retail executives feel
boundaries between industries
are blurring
58%
Of global retail executives feel
competition is coming from new
and unexpected sources

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IBM Food Trust combines supply chain modules with blockchain core functions, delivering
business value to the food ecosystem from the combination of governance, standards
and interoperability, and technology.
The solution provides participants with a permission-based, shared view of food
ecosystem information, allowing convenient data publishing and controlled sharing of
information. To achieve this goal, the IBM Food Trust solution enables participants to
enter and control access to their encrypted blockchain data.
In doing so, transaction partners can only access the data they are permissioned to view.
Permissioned data access is an integral part of the core solution. Access controls ensure
that the organization that owns the data maintains full control over who can access it on
the network.
IBM Food Trust solution users can quickly locate items from the supply chain, in real time,
by querying food product identifiers such as Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) or
Universal Product Code (UPC), using the product name, and filtering on dates.
Data is stored on blockchain ledgers, protected with the highest level of commercially-
available, tamper-resistant encryption.
IBM Food Trust
With blockchain

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Major Characteristics of Block Chain are
Major Benefits of Block Chain are
Block chain is used to create a trusted connection with shared
value for all Supply Chain participants, including end consumers
Shared Ledger
Permissions
Append only distributed system of record Shared across
business network
Ensures Appropriate Visibility, transaction are secure
and safe
Smart Contracts
Consensus
Business Terms are embedded in transaction database and
executed with transactions
All parties agree to network verified transaction
Reduce Time
Removes Cost
Reduce Risks
New Business Model
Transaction Time from Days to near instantaneous
Overhead & Cost Intermediaries
Data Loss, Tampering, Fraud & Cyber Crime
IOT integration into Supply Chain

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Key Drivers of blockchain system
Adoption
Foodborne Illness
The cost of foodborne illness in the U.S. alone ranges from$55 -$93B
Food Fraud
Food fraud incidents cost the industry $10-15 B annually
Regulatory Requirements
Enhancedrecordkeeping requirements
Traceability
The inability to track & trace results in larger outbreaksand negative
implications for safe products
Freshness & Food Waste
One-third of all food globally goes to waste. In the U.S. consumers throw
away $29 B annually
Transparency
Improved transparency leads to accountably,responsibility, & trust.
Consumers are demanding it

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Key Challenges for Stakeholders
of Food Supply Chain
Grower
• Manual, paper-basedprocesses
• Lack of real-rimeinformation
• Onerous administrative process
Processors/Suppliers
• Onerous regulatory recordkeeping
• Manual, paper-basedprocesses
• Onerous administrative process
Consumer
• Inability to viewand/or trust food claims andorigins
• Lack of timely and accurate information during foodrecalls
Retailers
• Manual, paper-basedprocesses
• Onerous administrativeprocess
• Increasing fines for violations in ecosystem
Logistics
• Manual, paper-basedprocesses
• Increasing foodwaste
• Evolving complianceneeds
Regulator
• Inability to quickly identify source of contaminated food
• Lack of easy visibility to food safety certificates and auditreports
• Authenticity concerns
• Unnecessary testing

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Inefficient, expensive, vulnerable A shared, replicated, permissioned ledger…
…with consensus, provenance,
immutability and finality.
The Problem The Solution…

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Growers
Food Suppliers
Processors
Retailers
Regulators
Customers
TX
How IBM Food Trust Helps
Millions ofparticipants will view their permissioned section of the same information
in a trusted, scalable network
Logistics

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Future Modules
Trace & Recall
 Manage Recalls
 Recall Post-Analysis
 Trace-forward
& back
Data Entry & Access
Solution Core
 Permissioned Data Access &
Entry
 Secure Document Storage
 API Integration
Certificate
Management
 Authenticity
 Certificate Validity
 Real-time Sharing
Future 3
rd
Party
Modules /
Capabilities
IBM BlockchainPlatform
HyperledgerFabric
Module Based Approach
Block Chain Solution integrates set of modules to address food safety, food waste,
certifications management, and more.

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IBM Walmart Mango Pilot
Pilot Test Case
How long does it take to
trace a package of sliced
mangoes back to the farm?
Supply Chain
Typical manual, mixed
digital and paper-based
method
6 days
18 hours
26 minutes
IBM Food Trust digital
solution
2.2 seconds
Results
8

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Trace Instant access to end-to-end traceability
data to verify history and real-time location
and status in the supply chain
Ability to upload, manage, access, edit
and share compliance documentation,
test results and audit certificates
Certificate
Management

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Each member organization owns its data on the blockchain network and maintains full
control over who can access different data elements. All data is made accessible only as
data owners grant permission to share relevant records.
Solution software adapters can provide automated data import from existing data stores,
such as SAP, to leverage existing business records including inventory lists, order records
and supplier information.
For network administrators already managing complex information environments, the
IBM Food Trust Connector API is designed to automate the integration of legacy system
data and network data.
Data connector application programming interfaces (APIs) allow enterprise IT teams to
efficiently upload supply chain data from existing data stores (such as SAP) to their IBM
Food Trust network for seamless integration of data from enterprise systems to an IBM
Food Trust solution network. Smaller organizations can onboard data through an easy-
to-use web experience.
SOE users automatically upload transaction data to the solution network, based on the
organization’s data specifications.
Once an enterprise has joined and on boarded, its users and SOE accounts can interact
with the network in several ways:
Data upload and integration
Employ user-friendly interfaces
for desktop or mobile use
Use the Certifications module to upload
regulation and inspection documents for
sharing with food supply chain partners
Use the customized interface to view and
manage data that has been shared by business
partners

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This module enables participant organizations to quickly and accurately determine the
path that a given shipment has taken.
Speed and accuracy are also key to compliance with global regulations aimed at food
safety and fraud, such as the US 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act.
To use the IBM Food Trust solution to trace food products, data on food products needs
to be uploaded to the network by participants.
Once data is uploaded, the trace module allows an authorized user to search the
provenance of a food product (via GTIN, product name, or Purchase Order) and can
narrow down by a specific date.
Authorized participants can then determine the scope of the problem, block further
contamination, and narrow the scope and impact of a recall.
Trace Benefits
 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
 Direct insight into inventory and supply chain inefficiencies
Trace with blockchain

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Food safety inspection and regulatory certificates can serve as investigative starting
points.
Certificates and related documents can help establish that a facility is properly inspected,
that livestock have been treated according to law, that a supplier is legally able to do
business, and that a farm is certified as conforming to industry standards.
Certifications, however, can be issued by agencies or organizations with differing and
overlapping authority, with different jurisdictions and with widely varying time windows
of validity. Verifying that certificates are complete, valid and current is complicated by
their abundance, complexity, and variety.
To simplify this task, IBM Food Trust offers a holistic approach with the Certifications
module to help track and store all certificates.
The designated Certificate Manager is authorized to upload and manage the
organization’s facility certificates as well as other business-enabling documents, such as
authorizations, licenses and inspection results. Conflicting or outdated certificates can be
easily flagged for review, which serves both suppliers who require certification to do
business and buyers who want to know the certification status of a sourcing farm or
factory.
Certifications

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As with any distributed network that relies on encryption and controlled access for vital
record-keeping, there will be questions.
Those answers will make the difference between a system worth implementing and one
that presents a danger to the enterprise.
IBM Food Trust provides the highest level of commercially-available, tamper-resistant
protection for food transaction data, employing the security benefits of the underlying
IBM Blockchain Platform and Hyperledger Fabric.
Hyperledger Fabric requires no cryptocurrency or other processor- intensive computations
to guarantee the legitimacy and permanence of network transactions, and features a
thoroughly permissioned network. The owner of the data controls who can see it on a
Hyperledger Fabric network.
Network and Data Security
HYPERLEDGER FABRIC
SOLUTION LAYER
Integrated
Modules
Onboarding
Services
IBM Blockchain Network Platform
Developer
Zone
PLATFORM LAYER
POWERED BYTHE
IBM Blockchain
Platform
BUILT ONTHE
Open Standard
Hyperledger Fabric

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IBM Food Trust Progress So Far
Participation
Value Adoption by
Ecosystem
Adoption by Innovators
Early adoption by key
influencers and
innovators
Maximizes Shared Value:
Value proposition/pricing resonate for all ecosystem participants
Delivers Excellent User Experience:
Easy to onboard and obtain value for participants at any technological
maturity level
Is Enterprise Ready and Completely Interoperable:
Built for business usage with security, scalability, reliability, etc.
Aligns with Industry Standards:
Leveraging existing standards to facilitate rapid adoption

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Participation
Adoption by leaders:
Early adoption by key
influencers andinnovators
Timeline
Value Proposition for Food
Supply Chain Participants
(Retailers, regulators,
consumers etc
Amplified Value:
Analytic tools raise the value
of the dataset
User Experience:
Easyto onboard and
usesystem
Shared Value: Enterprise Ready:
Built for Business
Usage with Security
& Reliability
Adoption by
ecosystem
Regulations
Increase in regulations on
safety
Device Proliferation
Increase in Smartphones uses
by Farmers
Industry Trends
Increased Impact
Social Media
increasesthe impact
of anyissue

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Vision
for…
A safer
Sustainable
food system.
More
efficient
Block Chain

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Block Chain