The world's largest brewery uses a blockchain for control of suppliers

At the end of January, 2020 the world's largest brewery Anheuser-Busch InBev began to use blockchain to trace a supply chain SRM SCM (and). Cooperation with a startup was for this purpose begun BlockQain BanQu.

Under the terms of the agreement, Anheuser-Busch InBev began to involve a blockchain platform in Africa for the purpose of control of suppliers of raw materials. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by the beginning of 2020 a half of all alcohol taken in Africa comes to the country illegally. Brand articles are more expensive, than illegal alcohol, and, therefore, are not really popular in Africa because of low income per capita. But the low-quality goods regularly lead to poisonings and become frequent the reason of lethal cases.

Anheuser-Busch InBev began to use a blockchain to trace a supply chain

AB InBev decided to use local products, such as corn and cassava, for brewing and to sell an end qualitative product to the African population at rather low prices. The company appealed to the governments to provide them tax benefits for development of a new business model which will fight against illegal trade in alcohol, to pay taxes to the state and at the same time to stimulate local economy.

A system using local raw materials is profitable to both parties — the company has an opportunity to arrange production on places, and the African farmers who are usually living subsistence economy can gain stable income. However such company as AB InBev, needs large volumes of raw materials and cannot work directly with farmers, and dishonest intermediaries began to take away to themselves too big share, depriving of farmers of legal income. Therefore AB InBev began a blockchain project with BanQu in Zambia for control of supply of raw materials from farmers and full calculations without intermediaries. The project helped brewery to create network with participation of 2000 local farmers, having provided supply chain visibility.^[1]

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