IBM Food Trust is a blockchain solution designed to enhance transparency and safety in the food supply chain, providing immediate access to detailed data about food items from farm to consumer. It enables faster traceability, reduces food waste, and ensures authenticity through a permissioned system that manages and secures data. The solution addresses various challenges faced by supply chain stakeholders, promoting efficiency and trust across the food ecosystem.

1. An IBM Blockchain solution
for the Food Supply Chain

2. What is IBM FoodTrust?
 Immediate access to actionable food supply chain data - from farm to store and
ultimately the consumer.
 Complete history and current location of any food item along with its accompanying
information (i.e. certifications, test data, temperature data) in seconds.
 Enables safer food, longer product shelf lives, reduced waste, faster traceability, and
better access to shared information

3. FOOD SAFETY
Securely trace products in seconds to
mitigate contamination
FOOD WASTE
Share & manage data across the
supply chain reduce product loss
IBM Food Trust
provides an
organization with a
set of Integrated
Modules
to address the
increased
complexity and build
trust in the industry.
FOOD FRESHNESS
Gain unprecedented visibility into
supply chain data for valuable insights
FOOD CONFIDENCE
Digitize essential certificates and
documents, ensure authenticity

4. IBM Food Trust withblockchain
 Allows a permission-based, shared & controlled view of food supply chain information,
convenient data publishing
 Enables Organizations to enter and control access to their encrypted blockchain
data.
 Users can quickly locate items from the Supply Chain, by querying food product identifiers
such as GTIN or UPC, using product name

5. Block chain
Key Concepts
Shared Ledger Permissions
Record Shared
across Business
Appropriate
Visibility
Smart Contracts Consensus
Business Terms
embedded in
database
Block chain is
used to
create a
trusted
connection
with shared
value for all
Supply Chain
participants,
including end
consumers
Block Chain
Agree to
network
verified
transaction
Reduce Time Removes Cost
Reduce Risks
New
Business
Model
Benefits
Transaction Time
from Days to
Instantaneous
Overhead &
Cost
Intermediaries
Data Loss,
Tampering, Fraud
IOT integration
into Supply
Chain

6. Regulatory
Requirements
Foodborne Illness Food Fraud
Improved
Transparency
Inability
to
Trace
Freshness
&
Food Waste
Key Drivers
for
Block Chain
System
Adoption

7. Block chain
Digitized Food
Supply Chain
5 to 8 years for a mango
tree to mature & bear
fruits
Mangoes grown by small
farmers in Central or
South America
Shipped to
the US by
air, sea or
land
(custom
border)
Washed,
peeled, sliced
and put into
containers in a
facility center
Shipped to
Walmart
distribution
center to
get
refrigerated
Transported to
store, refrigerated
and put on shelves
Shipped to a packing house
to get washed and boxed

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

9. HYPERLEDGER FABRIC
SOLUTION LAYER
Integrated
Modules
Onboarding
Services
IBM Blockchain Network Platform
Developer
Zone
PLATFORM LAYER
POWERED BY THE
IBM Blockchain
Platform
BUILT ONTHE
Open Standard
Hyperledger Fabric
All data is stored on
blockchain ledgers,
protected with the
highest level of
commercially-
available, tamper-
resistant encryption.

10. Future IBM Modules
Future 3rd Party
Modules / Capabilities
Trace & Recall
Manage Recalls
Recall Post-Analysis
Trace-forward & back
Certificate Management
Authenticity
Certificate lifecycle
management
Real-time Sharing
IBM BlockchainPlatform
Hyperledger Fabric
Data Entry & Access
IBM Food Trust
Solution Core
 Permissioned Data Access & Entry
 Secure Document Storage
 API Integration
IBM Food Trust’s integrated set of modules address food safety, food waste,
certifications management, and more.
Module-based approach

18. Grower
• Manual, paper-basedprocesses
• Lack of real-rimeinformation
Processors/Suppliers
• Onerous regulatory recordkeeping
• Onerous administrativeprocess
Logistics
• Increasing foodwaste
• Evolving complianceneeds
Retailers
• Manual, paper-basedprocesses
• Onerous administrativeprocess
Regulator
• Inability to identify source of
Contaminated Food
• Lack of visibility of food safety certifica
and auditreports
Consumer
• Inability to view food origins
• Lack of timely and accurate
information
Challenges
for Various
Stakeholders
oftheFood
SupplyChain

19. HOW BLOCK CHAIN HELPS
Growers
Food
Suppliers
Processors
Retailers
Logistics
RegulatorsCustomers
Millions of
participants
will view their
permissioned
section of the
same
information in
a trusted,
scalable
network
TX

20. Joining the IBM Food Trust Block Chain
The IBM Food Trust solution assigns predefined roles that grant users Authorization to
execute specific network tasks on behalf of their Organization.
Assigning roles enables Account Administrators to easily control the level of access
provided to each individual user in their Organization.

21. ACCOUNT OWNER
Manage organization account settings and subscriptions
ACCOUNT ADMINISTRATOR
Add, delete, and modify users and can modify organization settings
CERTIFICATIONS MANAGER
Add, delete, and modify certifications & documents
FOOD SAFETY TEAM MEMBER
View data (with organization-level authorization), trace
products, and view certifications
ONBOARDING TEAM MEMBER
Create product scenarios and upload data
When onboarding new users to the IBM Food Trust solution, an
Account Administrator must assign a role to each user:

22. Data connector application
programming interfaces (APIs) allow
to upload supply chain data from
existing data stores (such as SAP) to
IBM Food Trust network for
seamless integration of data
User-friendly interfaces for desktop or
mobile use
Customized interface to view and
manage data shared by business
partners
Data upload andintegration
Organizationsuse the IBM Food Trust solution to
upload or programmatically send four key data
elements:
1Supply chain
events
2Transactions
3Master
data
4Certificate
data

23. Network and
data security
IBM Food Trust provides
tamper- resistant
protection for food
transaction data,
employing the security
benefits of
IBM Blockchain platform
and Hyperledger Fabric.
Hyper ledger Fabric guarantee legitimacy and
permanence of network transactions, via
permissioned network.
The owner of the data controls who can see it
on a Hyper ledger Fabric network.

24. IBM Food Trust Progress So Far
Increased Impact
Social Media increasesthe
impact of anyissue
Regulations
Increase inregulations on safety
Device Proliferation
Increase in Smartphones
uses by Farmers
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
Adoption by
ecosystem
Shared Value:
Industry Trends
Enterprise Ready:
Built for Business
Usage with Security
& Reliability

25. Vision
for… a safer
25
more
efficient
sustainable
food system.

26. Thank you