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A blockchain-based solution that automates and integrates supplier data to ensure transparency, real-time tracking, and smart contract compliance, while minimizing manual effort.
About
Applied Blockchain is a development studio specializing in blockchain and privacy technologies. Since 2015, we have designed, developed, and delivered over 150 platforms across industries, including supply chain, finance, aviation, and healthcare.
Applied Blockchain works with global enterprises such as Shell, the United Nations, Vodafone, Barclays, KLM, and SITA, providing secure, high-performance solutions that process billions of dollars daily. Our expertise lies in building scalable, enterprise-grade applications that ensure data integrity, automation, and compliance.
Applied Blockchain has extensive experience in supply chain and logistics, having developed blockchain-powered solutions for supplier management, product tracking, and financial reconciliation. For instance, we partnered with CryoPDP, a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, specialising in the life sciences and healthcare sectors, to build a blockchain solution for tracking critical medical shipments, ensuring data accuracy, compliance, and real-time visibility across complex global supply chains. Additionally, we’ve developed a supply chain tool for tracking products, orders, invoices, payments, and financing on the blockchain. Barclays’ Trade Finance team tested the tool with a UK food manufacturer to incorporate it into a nuts supply chain, exploring physical product tracking, ERP integration, and ingredient mapping.
Our blockchain-powered supplier management system ensures complete transparency, automation, and trust, streamlining supplier performance tracking, compliance, and risk management while reducing inefficiencies and disputes.
Managing supplier data across multiple sources is often fragmented and manual, leading to delays, errors, and inconsistent reporting. Our solution securely integrates data from contracts, work orders, financial systems, and safety records, using smart contracts to automate compliance checks, risk assessments, and reporting. This eliminates manual tracking, enhances accountability, and provides real-time, verifiable insights, giving CBRE full control over its supplier ecosystem while improving efficiency and decision-making.
Applied Blockchain has been invited to advise the UK Government at the Houses of Parliament, House of Lords, and UK Export Finance on blockchain applications. Additionally, we were selected as the Industry Representative at the inaugural All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Blockchain, demonstrating our expertise and thought leadership in the field.
Key Benefits
A blockchain-powered system is designed to streamline and optimize procurement, supply chain, and facilities management processes. It is particularly valuable for enterprises that oversee extensive supplier networks and require real-time performance monitoring, automated compliance checks, and proactive risk assessment. By providing a centralized platform for managing supplier relationships and performance data, our solution provides the following benefits:
- Seamless Data Integration: Aggregates supplier data from contract, work order, finance, and safety systems into a single, immutable ledger.
- Real-Time Supplier Dashboard: Displays performance metrics, compliance status, and risk levels with full traceability.
- Corporate Procurement Teams: Gain access to a transparent and auditable system for supplier evaluation, enabling data-driven decision-making and improved supplier selection.
- Facilities Management Firms: Ensure consistent contract compliance and service quality through automated monitoring and performance tracking, leading to improved service delivery and reduced operational risks.
- Mitigate Risk: Proactively track and manage financial, safety, and operational risks associated with suppliers and contracts, enabling early intervention and mitigation strategies.
- Cost Savings: Streamlining procurement processes and optimizing supplier performance can lead to significant cost savings.
- Fraud Prevention & Data Integrity: Blockchain ensures that supplier records cannot be altered, reducing data manipulation risks.
- Customizable & Scalable: Supports custom KPIs, flexible data visualization, and seamless integration with CBRE’s existing systems.
- Improved Supplier Relationships: Enhanced transparency and communication can foster stronger, more collaborative relationships with suppliers.
Applications
Our solution is designed for enterprises with large supplier networks that require real-time performance tracking, compliance automation, and risk assessment.
Key stakeholders:
- Corporate procurement teams seeking transparent, auditable supplier evaluation.
- Facilities management firms ensuring contract compliance and service quality.
- Risk & compliance departments tracking financial, safety, and operational risks.
- Enterprises managing complex supply chains that need automated performance analytics.