{"id":3913,"date":"2017-03-23T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/ariba-everledger-blockchain-supply-chains-ethical-the-world-better_032317\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:04:00","slug":"ariba-everledger-blockchain-supply-chains-ethical-the-world-better_032317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/ariba-everledger-blockchain-supply-chains-ethical-the-world-better_032317\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariba And Everledger Want Blockchain To Help Supply Chains Become More Ethical And Make The World Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/blog\/christine-ferrusi-ross\/i-want-to-be-a-superhero-what-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my desire to be a superhero<\/a> \u2013to help companies buy IT products and services ethically and help suppliers create new opportunities for themselves and their people. When people source ethically they can reduce a lot of bad in the world \u2013 child labor, human trafficking, working conditions that harm and kill people, and a host of other problems.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at SAP Ariba Live, the software company announced that it was partnering with blockchain provenance firm Everledger to explore the use of blockchain across Ariba\u2019s suite of applications. As a first step, the two companies are working on a track and trace (provenance) application.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/CFR\/Ariba-everledger.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everledger CEO Leanne Kemp and SAP Ariba Senior Vice President Joe Fox discussed the application and broader blockchain implications at the event, talking about empowering an ethical supply chain. They see a future where using blockchain to track goods from their raw materials through their final delivery would help companies have visibility into the entire supply chain. This would then allow companies to avoid problems such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Counterfeit goods being swapped in for the original goods at some point in the journey<\/li>\n<li>Unintentionally supporting illegal and unethical conduct by suppliers and other third parties involved in conflict minerals like blood diamonds because you couldn\u2019t tell where the diamond originated<\/li>\n<li>Being out of compliance with government or industry regulations because\u00a0related to the point above, you couldn\u2019t prove that the product was made without conflict minerals or other illegal inputs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Undoubtedly, this announcement is a huge win for blockchain technology. It\u2019s a major software company investing in a specific commercial application. It also reinforces the importance of provenance as a key blockchain \u201ckiller app,\u201d coming soon after IBM\u2019s announcement with Maersk that the two firms would work together to trace shipping containers. We\u2019ve written before that provenance will get adopted faster than many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/blog\/christine-ferrusi-ross\/Boston-FinTech-Showcase-Blockchain-Into-Enterprise%20Solution_030917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fintech<\/a> blockchain applications. These two deals show movement in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Even more powerful is the business and human story about making the world a better place. SAP Ariba\u2019s and Everledger\u2019s message of using blockchain to help business work more effectively AND to improve the lives of people is inspiring. It\u2019s what technology is supposed to do, and we\u2019re hoping to see more companies explicitly make corporate social responsibility a key factor in their technology decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I wrote about my desire to be a superhero \u2013to help companies buy IT products and services ethically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,871],"tags":[739],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[896],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","category-supply-chain-management","tag-supply-chain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ariba And Everledger Want Blockchain To Help Supply Chains Become More Ethical And Make The World Better - 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