Organizations face significant challenges in trust and transparency across the complete coffee supply chain as they are not clear on the products origin and it is not tracked clearly due to much transaction and legal documentation.
Blockchain helps organizations verify exactly where the coffee was sourced and helps them in finding the right coffee suppliers for exporters as once data written to the blockchain cannot be edited or removed. It helps the organizations to verify whether the beans have been ethically sourced or not.
To maintain trust and transparency in the coffee supply chain, organizations can track and record characteristics such as coffee variety, bean grade, processing methods etc to match the data associated with the RFID tag attached to the coffee bags or the transportation containers, which can be scanned at each point along the supply chain, there by reducing the cost.
One of the major challenge faced by plantation owners is labor compliance which is one of the key components but there are no proper labor contracts, lack of worker documentation, forced labor, low pay. By implementing block chain owners can create and record workers information. Workers can receive payment digitally.
Conclusion:
With the advent of Blockchain, organizations can solve the problems by maintaining trust, transparency and traceability across the complete coffee supply chain.