Baselining the North America Coca-Cola Bottling Supply Chain

Baselining the North America Coca-Cola Bottling Supply Chain

CONA Services (Coke One North America) launches project with Provide and Unibright to establish a “Coca-Cola Bottling Harbor.”

In 2019, the first set of North America Coca-Cola Bottlers adopted a blockchain platform based on Hyperledger Fabric, running on the SAP BaaS platform. The project aimed to streamline the relationship between franchised bottling companies to make cross-organization supply chain transactions frictionless and transparent. It was implemented by the technology partner of the twelve largest Coca-Cola Bottlers in North America, CONA Services (Coke One North America), and proved to increase transparency and efficiency in bottlers’ intricate supply chain.

CONA now wants to extend the use-case from the internal network to a larger audience. Utilizing the Baseline Protocol, the goal is to establish a “Coca-Cola Bottling Harbor” enabling a low-barrier network onboarding process for Coca-Cola Bottling suppliers. This not only streamlines the ability of internal bottlers-suppliers to provide products to the bottling network, but also external suppliers (e.g. raw materials vendors like cans and bottles) can benefit from an integrated, private, distributed integration network.

The Baseline Protocol provides an outstanding technical backbone for achieving the desired solution by:

  • using the public Ethereum Mainnet as an always-on, pay-per-use frame of reference;
  • keeping enterprise data in traditional systems of record;
  • enabling complex, private, interorganizational business process automation;
  • providing extensibility for DeFi & asset tokenization use-cases;
  • is openly-governed open source, poised to become an OASIS standard.

The relationship between buyers and suppliers results in referencing business objects like Request, Proposal, Purchase Order, Delivery, Invoice and Payment. Currently, various coordination and integration challenges appear:

  • purchase orders may often be subject to undesired changes by the supplier. These changes are not noticed by the buyer until receiving the wrong delivery;
  • deliveries may be different from the orders due to manual errors on the supplier’s side;
  • small participants (without ERP) are prevented from integrating with the ecosystem due to technical and cost barriers.

The project shall prove:

  • how a generalized zero-knowledge circuit can be extended and applied to a standardized business process;
  • how versioning commercial documents (e.g. purchase order, sales order, delivery, goods receipt, etc.) can eliminate coordination problems by ensuring all parties agree to the latest, authoritative versions;
  • how an agreement on the latest baselined version of the “desired truth” can be utilized to negotiate error handling or partial re-deliveries;
  • how an accessible technology stack and ERP integration entry point can be made available for all participants;
  • how application-specific circuits can be established to enforce nuanced business rules such as verifying the validity of a given buyer-supplier relationship;
  • how an invoice can be tokenized within a baseline process;
  • how an existing Hyperledger-based implementation can extend, augment or integrate with the Baseline Protocol.

The project is launched by CONA, Provide and Unibright and is scheduled to showcase initial results in Q4 2020.

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Chainlink Integration with SAP via PRVD

Provide's very own Ryan Fleischmann has submitted our entry to the Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon. Our submission integrates Chainlink price feeds into the SAP S/4 HANA enterprise resource planning system - the #1 ERP system used by Fortune 500 businesses and other global organizations for finance, supply chain and other business processes. In so few words - we used Chainlink price feeds to update the foreign currency rates in SAP. This effort showcases the maturity level of the PRVD stack (the BRI-1 implementation of the Baseline Protocol).

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November 18, 2022