the Microsoft has unveiled this week the first fruits of its partnership with Starbucks. Using Microsoft’s new Azure platform wants to bring the coffee giant, in the future, several Blockchain projects. Among other things, the partnership Starbucks Bean-to-Cup-Initiative design to give. This sets the Distributed Ledger technology is a proven recipe to make supply chains traceable.
By David Barkhausen
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The limits of Software of individual computers and systems, If Microsoft wants to convey to its developers conference in Seattle this week, the world public with a message, then it is this: part of the past. In the future, want to open the billion group, the whole world of work to digitize and a wide range of products can be networked together.
As the Central part of this Vision, the Software maker introduced on Monday the 6th. May, now the first results of its partnership with the coffee house giant, Starbucks, in the area of Blockchain development. As the industry service GeekWire reported, wants to realize the group’s use of Microsoft’s early Blockchain-Service Azure a whole range of projects.
for years, both companies are closely connected with each other. They come from the vicinity of Seattle in the state of Washington. Employees as Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson frequently switch from one company to the other.
Azure, the Blockchain technology from Microsoft, which, in turn, had seen only last week, officially the light of the Public, to support the coffee chain in the future, among other things, to improve automated customer orders. In the USA the popular Drive-Through orders such as the technology to make customer data in proposals for the orders of Espresso, Muffins & co. – ready.
the Bean-to-Cup: Starbucks customers to the origin of the beans
But beyond the coffee chain, has ambitious goals: in the Future, Distributed Ledger solutions is to associate the digital device of some 30,000 of Starbucks stores. In a common group network you want to connect the data of the myriad of mixers, ovens, coffee machines and mills to collect and, therefore, their operation and optimize quality. Thus, in the future, especially the maintenance and control of the devices to be more efficient.
Ultimately wants to give Starbucks by using Microsoft his Bean-to-Cup-Initiative form. This was announced by the coffee chain last year. Now Azure, the development of the supply chain, to project the technical backbone to the side.
The Initiative aims to monitor the trade routes of the countless coffee plantations and the beans from the Farm up for sale in a reliable track. In the future, customers will be able to follow the way of the coffee bean on your Smartphone. On the other hand, it allows the Blockchain project, these supply chain organizational bag to examine streets and obstacles.
a tried and tested recipe: Blockchain-supply-chains
With its Blockchain-supply chain puts Starbucks to a proven recipe, the place in the world in addition to other coffee farmers in cocoa, Mineral or diamond producer application.
Popular Blockchain solutions are also in the case of food manufacturers. Because in addition to the organic origin and fair working conditions by using the Distributed-Ledger-technology, especially supply chain to guarantee safety and mislabeling to avoid.
An example from the industry, the Sustainable Shrimp partnership (SSP). The crab fishermen’s Association from Ecuador, announced this week, joining the Food Trust, the Ecosystem of the Software giant IBM. Thus, the Shrimp producers, among others, the supermarket chains Carrefour and Walmart, who put in their supply chains also on the IBM Software,.
The transition was necessary, because food fraud in the world “on the rise”, it means on the part of the Association.
About the use of Blockchain-supply chains to meet this Problem now. First of all, you want to ensure that the breeding of the seafood sustainability standards are met.
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