EDI Supply Chain Best Practices Whitepaper

Project Team: Marco Carvalho Marco Carvalho joshua.satten@wipro.com kentydotcom

Email addresses (comma separated):

• Marco.Carvalho@rsmus.com, joshua.satten@wipro.com, kentydotcom@gmail.com, 

Description:

• Identify how Blockchain can be used to replace EDI

Purpose/Benefit:

• EDI is a 20+ year old technology for business supply chains to interact electronically. The capabilities of Blockchain and what it can address will improve the speed, efficiently and security that EDI can offer.

Scope:

• History, overview, purpose of EDI
• EDI use cases, file types, etc.
• How and why Blockchain can be used instead of EDI
• Example smart contracts
• Challenges transitioning from EDI to Blockchain
• Strategy and approaches to transition or augment EDI and Blockchain
• etc.