Applying Blockchain to Supply Chain Operations at IBM Implementing Agile Practices in a Smart City Environment

Abstract

Nowadays, performance and promptness in the production line are significantly relevant; solutions are being delivered each quarter lead by the evolving innovation of technology which is moving at a fast paste. Taking into consideration concepts from Smarter Cities, Smart Contracts, and Blockchain, we will include these tools in the daily operations of International Business Machines' supply chain to reduce these transaction times radically, implementing agile practices. Fundamentally using IBM Bluemix®, which is a fast-growing Platform that provides support for development organizations by defining various users and roles in the cloud environment. IBM Bluemix® provides an extensive inventory of runtime and services that enterprises and developers can use in cloud applications without requiring significant development effort. We as developers can quickly build applications with a choice of several runtimes as can be needed in Supply Chain operations. Furthermore, as the workloads increase, applications can promptly scale on-demand to add more memory or processing power to ensure an optimal block chain experience application. Supply Chain operations can now shift their client-side code into a cloud system environment to leverage service integration, internal confidential activities and services, cloud data and the infrastructure capabilities. It will allow operations to be more productive and highly available and flexible, achieving efficient and sustainable development based on the analysis of real-time information shared by stakeholders and connected devices in a Smart City Environment. IBM is seen as a leader in blockchain, from recent surveys it is revealed that IBM is leading the way of blockchain technology, with more than 40% of respondents raking it number one. International customers are working with IBM to introduce Blockchain to their businesses. These customers are currently testing out IBM's blockchain technology to help small/medium sized enterprises become more evident and attract investment. Another result of working with IBM is that the customers 65