Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 10 (May 14, 2020)

In the company’s Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2020,^[1] Dole committed to implementing blockchain technology to trace its products within five years. The company already uses blockchain for certain divisions, but, in a recent partnership with Walmart, IBM and others, it has made the move to implement blockchain across the board.

“Produce that’s been logged via blockchain can be instantly tracked back through the supply chain, giving retailers and consumers confidence in the event of a recall,” read the report. “Eventually, consumers will be able to scan each bag of salad or package of vegetables in-store to get information about its journey from farm to store shelf.”

Blockchain solutions for tracing products in a supply chain are becoming more and more common. Supply chain managers are rolling out digitization initiatives of all kinds—using artificial intelligence to sort through contracts,^[2] for example—that are flexible enough to interface with any system but also precise enough to increase transparency.

1 Dole Food Company, Dole Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2020, April 2020, https://bit.ly/2zaIWCT.
2 Sascha Matuszak, “AI solutions for supply chains,” Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 23 (December 12, 2019), http://bit.ly/2F40xMk.

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