Quality assurance is widely acknowledged as a top priority for manufacturers, in particular food and medicine. Yet, as a growing volume of business moves overseas, manufacturers maintain less control and face more risk than ever before. Most industries rely on overseas business for both supply and revenue growth, but the risks of doing so are consequential.

The Problem = No Trust

In most cases there is no way to really know that what is printed on a food or medicine label is accurate. Within a supply chain there is a huge amount of lost information (in some cases ignorantly or deliberately “lost”) that is not passed on from one manufacturing stakeholder to the next. The information lost contains the evidence of what goes into making a product, how it has been stored and handled and potentially tampered with.

This obviously affects the legitimacy of brand marks, fair trade, ethical and sustainability certifications, soil association certification, the ingredients list, etc. All too often they only give us a very limited perspective on precisely what the product actually is and whether we can trust it.

The Solution = Ambrosus

Ambrosus is a blockchain solution with a big goal, that if executed will have massive ramifications. The goal being to take the huge amount of lost information within supply chains and actually make it available, and further not just available, but trustworthy.

The Ambrosus solution does this by tracking products as they move within a supply chain with sensors attached to an item or batch. The sensors detect the time, location, and uniquely the environmental factors which may affect a products quality, such as temperature, humidity, oxygen and light exposure, etc. Further, where applicable highly advanced biological and chemical sensors are used to assess food, as well as weight change detection and movement to detect whether a product has been tampered with.

This sensor information is transmitted in real-time, to the blockchain network with the assistance of IoT technology, giving the Ambrosus system ubiquity — being everywhere at all times. Additionally the data collected from all stakeholders is immutably stored securely on the decentralized blockchain network, but accessible by all in a convenient central location.

The Value Ambrosus Provide

This is highly valuable to corporate stakeholders, who by using the Ambrosus solution can eliminate inefficiencies associated with the current procedures of how sample products are stored and manually tested. Despite of all the effort that goes into the current techniques in order to try and protect the consumers, the number of food incidents has increased every year, for the last 5 years. Not to mention a huge amount of wasted sample food that has to be stored to test, but the money and resources it takes to do so.

The Ambrosus solution will make the management of supply chains more automated, so that different stakeholders entering deals with one another can be confident in the proper handling of products before the accountability is passed onto them. Further on, they can’t be blamed for the future handling or tampering of a product once it has left their station within the supply chain.

Everybody Wins

As a consumer, whether you place importance in the quality, sustainability, or ethical practices; Ambrosus will provide the ability to make an educated decision. Where at the same time, supply chains reap the benefit of improved efficiency, lower risk of shrinkage, fraud and increased potential for profit.

We can look forward to a better quality of life essential products and global economic growth by implementation of the Ambrosus system into supply chains.

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