Blockchain technology will disrupt global supply chains in 5 key ways:
1. Data exchange will move from EDI to distributed ledgers, ending centralized data control.
2. Cryptocurrency will disrupt traditional money flows between supply chain participants.
3. Invoices and purchase orders will be securitized and traded on new markets.
4. Decentralization will allow demand to flow more efficiently between parties.
5. Transparency around sustainability, risk, and ingredients will become priority competitive factors.
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Blockchain: The Technology That’s Changing the World
Connecting Via the Blockchain
A distributed global network of computer systems
Operates without a central governing authority
Manages vast volumes of information & transaction records
In permanent, tamper-proof databases called “digital ledgers”
August 2017
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Revolution of the blockchain: combining the
documents, biz rules, and money movement
Documents Money
Business
Rules
SMART Contract
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"A lot of companies are interested in blockchain for
creating more efficient workflows, but supply chain
management is one of the "big, killer apps,”
-Vipul Goyal, an associate professor in the
Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU)."
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China Timeline on Crypto vs. Blockchain
China Outlaws
ICO
China Considers
Blockchain
China
Blockchain
Explosion
Sep 2017 Nov 2017 May 2018
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Revolution of the blockchain: combining the
documents, biz rules, and money movement
Documents Money
Business
Rules
SMART Contract
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"Finance attracts most of the headlines in
the blockchain world, but the biggest long-term
opportunity may be in managing supply chains,
which are now traced on pieces of paper, Excel
spreadsheets, and incompatible computer
systems.” – Barron’s Magazine Aug 17, 2018
Source: https://www.barrons.com/articles/blockchain-is-
starting-to-show-real-promise-amid-the-hype-1534554901
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A Market for Invoices
& Purchase Orders
• Improves the money flow throughout the
supply chain
• Enables a fair market rate to buy invoices
and POs
• Allows for non-traditional money to enter
the market: hedge funds, asset funds, and
corporate treasury
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Chain Reaction - For example, a blockchain’s
immutability and distributed nature would seem
perfect for streamlining supply chains. A widget
manufacturer in one country, its shipping agent, its
customer in another country and customs
authorities on both the sending and the receiving
end could all use the same database to track the
widget. – The Economist Aug 30th 2018
Source: https://www.economist.com/technology-
quarterly/2018/08/30/what-to-make-of-cryptocurrencies-and-
blockchains
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Customer
Demand
Retail
& Resellers
Distributors
Brands
Raw
Material
Suppliers
Component
Suppliers
Original demand signal
Without Blockchain: Slow, Inefficient, & Unsynchronized Supply Chains
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5 Disruptions to the Supply Chain
because of Blockchain
#1 – Data Exchange will Move to the Blockchain
#2 – Crypto will Disrupt the Money Flow
#3 – Invoices and POs will be Securitized
#4 – Demand will Flow Between Parties
#5 – Transparency will Win
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Raw Materials & Goods for the furniture supply chain
Flow of Financial and Documents
The Businesses Involved
Mines & Mills
Small Medium
Business
+ A Few Large Players
Retail
Stores
Small
Medium
Business
Small
Medium
Business
Invoice PO POInvoice Invoice PO Invoice PO
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Revolution of the blockchain: combining the
documents, biz rules, and money movement
Documents Money
Business
Rules
SMART Contract
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Payson Johnston, CEO | paysonj@crowdz.io | +1.408.910.1975 | www.crowdz.io
”A $9tn market for trade finance.” – Financial Times
Editor's Notes
One hundred years, ago my family imported products in and out of China, as you can see from this actual photograph. It was a highly manual process, with a ton of paperwork.
Today, China—the manufacturing hub of the world—has embarked on a $1 trillion project called “One Belt, One Road.” This ambitious program recreates the ancient Silk Trade Routes to deliver even more products, throughout Asia and into Europe, across 77 different countries!
However, there’s a glaring omission in China’s program: this new Silk Road has no digital infrastructure. It still is a very manual process, with a lot of paperwork that my family would recognize 100 years ago!
Let me make this concept a bit more concrete for you.
Consider the chair you’re sitting in.
It was bought by the Barclays Purchasing Department from a reseller in London called ARAM.
These chairs come from a Swiss designer.
The chair was manufactured in Germany.
The plastics that the chairs are made from comes from a plastics facility in mainland China that uses raw materials mined from throughout Asia.
This sounds like a rather complicated supply chain for a chair, and IT IS!
In fact, at least 300 different pieces of paper from at least 20 companies were required to make the chair you are sitting on today!
In Step 2 of our development, the blockchain pulls all of this together.
But just what is the blockchain—this technology that PC Magazine recently called “The Invisible Technology That’s Changing the World”?
There are four key characteristics of blockchain:
It’s based on a distributed global network of computer systems.
Unlike the regular Internet, it operates without a central governing authority.
It manages vast volumes of information & transaction records.
And it does so in permanent, tamper-proof databases called “digital ledgers.”
Like Internet- it doesn’t have central authority, instead has a shared record of transactions distributed among vast network of users.
Made of series of blocks of data each of which records a batch of transaction
Blocks are electronically chained together and locked up with advanced cryptographic to get permanent and public records for every transactions
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The main problem in the current ecosystem is that the supply chain is slow and unsynchronized causing an imbalance in the marketplace.
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The main problem most B2B supply chains face today is their inherent slowness & inefficiency. This inefficiency results from three key factors:
The cumbersome, largely manual nature of most B2B sourcing;
The difficulty of accurately & efficiently matching buyers and sellers at the product level; and
The inability to synchronize supply & demand throughout the supply chain, with the differences in supply & demand exploding the further back in the supply chain you go.
Our long-term opportunity is even greater than connecting the silk road. In the same way that the Internet became the backbone for ecommerce, Crowdz will become the backbone for all of global commerce. We look forward to partnering w/ you on this $9 Trillion market!