The Digital Sandwich - Digitised Food Supply Chain, fusing IoT, Blockchain and AI data layers to improve productivity, traceability and reduce waste

数字三明治 - 数字化食品供应链，融合物联网、区块链和人工智能数据层，以提高生产力、可追溯性并减少浪费

• 批准号: 10024696
• 金额: $ 12.74万
• 依托单位: RAYNOR FOODS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10024696
• 关键词: Digital; Sandwich; Digitised; Food; Supply

The Made Smarter Review estimated the UK food and drink industry could realise £56bn in productivity growth and efficiency savings over a 10year period through the wide-spread adoption and integration of novel IDTs across the supply chain.Working with a large consortium of manufacturers, supply chain partners, industrial digital technology (IDTs) suppliers, trade and governmental organisations, Raynor Foods Ltd, a leading UK sandwich will develop a national and open demonstrator of a digitalised food supply chain - an open multi-party software platform, connecting supply and value chain stakeholders from food primary production to retail to increase business productivity, agility and resilience.Although this is a national food supply chain demonstrator, the UK sandwich industry is worth over £5.6bn, employs over 325k people and is growing at 4.2%CAGR. Recent, well-publicised, health and safety issues (NHS Listeria outbreak and Pret/allergic reaction) have thrust issues around production methodology, traceability and accountability in the supply chain into the public-eye .The highly-fragmented, fast-moving nature of these supply chains leaves critical segments of the industry suffering a perfect storm of challenges, impacting labour (availability / cost) and resource productivity, waste (product and financial), brexit impacts on international supply chains and consumer safety.Although the adoption of new IDT technologies such as Blockchain-DLT, integrated IoT platforms and AI analytics has occurred in large, international companies, there are an estimated 10,000 SME suppliers who can't afford/don't have access to these technologies, and without industry-wide adoption (and IDT compatibility) the benefit of IDT has so far been limited.In this collaborative proposal, we will fuse 3 IDT's (Blockchain-DLT, IoT and AI) and demonstrate them within a sandwich manufacturing supply chain. Via immutable traceability, a Blockchain-DLT enabled supply chain will drive trust across the food sector, IoT will integrate critical meta data and new AI driven analytics will drive productivity/ reduce waste.Technologies developed will be demonstrated by Raynor Foods . When scaled nationally this novel integrated stack of IDT's will optimise and simplify national, cross border and international food supply chains, increase productivity by ~10%, reduce inventory waste by ~14% and generate £2.8bn GVA within 10 years.Whilst food and digital sectors are the exemplars in this demonstrator project, the consortium's vision (particularly the technology partners) and priority will be to share best practices, technology and learning across multiple industrial domains that have complex, fast moving and high trust requiring supply chains such as pharma, aerospace, automotive etc.

据Made Smarter Review估计，通过在整个供应链中广泛采用和整合新型IDT，英国食品和饮料行业可以在10年内实现560亿英镑的生产力增长和效率节省。Raynor Foods Ltd与制造商，供应链合作伙伴，工业数字技术（IDT）供应商，贸易和政府组织组成的大型财团合作，英国一家领先的三明治公司将开发一个全国性的开放式数字化食品供应链演示器--一个开放的多方软件平台，将从食品初级生产到零售的供应和价值链利益相关者联系起来，以提高企业的生产力、敏捷性和弹性。尽管这是一个全国性的食品供应链演示器，英国三明治行业价值超过56亿英镑，员工超过32.5万人，复合年增长率为4.2%。最近，广为宣传的健康和安全问题（NHS李斯特菌爆发和Pret/过敏反应）将供应链中的生产方法、可追溯性和问责制问题推到了公众的视野中。这些供应链的高度分散、快速变化的性质使该行业的关键环节遭受了一场完美的挑战风暴，影响了劳动力（可用性/成本）和资源生产率，虽然区块链DLT、集成物联网平台和人工智能分析等新的IDT技术已经在大型国际公司中采用，据估计，有10，000家中小企业供应商负担不起/无法获得这些技术，如果没有全行业的采用（和IDT兼容性），IDT的好处到目前为止是有限的。在这个合作提案中，我们将融合3种IDT（区块链DLT，物联网和人工智能），并在三明治制造供应链中展示它们。通过不可变的可追溯性，支持区块链DLT的供应链将推动整个食品行业的信任，物联网将整合关键的Meta数据，新的人工智能驱动的分析将提高生产力/减少浪费。开发的技术将由Raynor Foods展示。当在全国范围内推广时，这种新型的IDT集成堆栈将优化和简化国内，跨境和国际食品供应链，提高生产率约10%，减少库存浪费约14%，并在10年内产生28亿英镑的GVA。财团的愿景（特别是技术合作伙伴）和优先事项将是分享跨多个工业领域的最佳实践，技术和学习，这些领域具有复杂，快速发展和高度信任的供应链，如制药，航空航天，汽车等