TRUSTED BYTES: Trusted, Decentralised, Digital Supply Chains for the Food Industry

COVID-19和英国脱欧后的贸易不确定性使英国食品供应链面临前所未有的压力。COVID-19证明了英国社会对食品系统的绝对依赖。英国70%的进口食品来自欧盟，包括水果和蔬菜等易腐产品，由于季节性原因，这些产品不能在英国生产。新鲜农产品供应链是“准时制”模式的原型，即使延迟或中断也会导致食物浪费和巨大的经济损失。运输量巨大，食品占英国公路货运量的23%，但该行业竞争激烈，受到占主导地位的零售商的买方力量的推动。该行业不断创新，降低成本以抵消竞争压力。这样做的社会目的是维持消费者的低价格通胀。然而，COVID-19和英国脱欧带来了新的紧迫性，需要重新格式化供应链，使其更具适应性，弹性和管理风险。TRUSTEDBYTE逐步改变食品行业的供应链管理。TRUSTEDBYTE的愿景是提高供应链生产力，同时为可信数据交换创建一个“全行业”可互操作的生态系统，与新的AEO兼容的API集成，以促进跨境过渡以及新的电信技术，提供无处不在的无障碍访问数据。为了实现这一愿景，TRUSTEDBYTE有以下目标\[1\]创建英国第一个“数据信任”在整个行业范围内对新鲜农产品部门的数据进行管理和共享。[2\]开发一种新的符合AEO标准的API，并将其集成到HMRC中，以促进跨境食品贸易。[3]开发一种新的低成本4G / Sat通信解决方案，提供对整个欧盟供应链数据的无处不在的访问。[4\]通过扩大Bluering供应链管理软件的互操作性来利用这些优势。\ [5]在整个英国新鲜农产品行业大规模展示这些能力。[6\]开发新的业务模式，以利用新的功能。TRUSTEBYTE的汇集了领先的技术开发人员（Bluering开发商、Excelerate Ltd、Satellite Application Catapult、MTC）与英国新鲜农产品供应链的主要成员（Fesa UK、World Wide Fruit、Davis Worldwide、希斯顿Sweet Spreads）、贸易机构（新鲜农产品网络），HEI's（林肯大学）、标准机构（BSi）和主要监管机构的支持（HMRC / FSA）以及品诚梅森的投入，英国领先的数据治理法律的专家。它提供了一个私营部门的方法，以支持政府政策的多个高调元素（促进脱欧后贸易、粮食安全、生产力、清洁增长）。

COVID-19 and post-Brexit trading uncertainty have placed UK food supply chains under unprecedented pressure. COVID-19 demonstrated the absolute reliance of UK's society on the food system. 70% of the UK's imported food is from the EU, including highly perishable products such as fruit and vegetable which for seasonality reasons cannot be produced in the UK. Fresh produce supply-chains are the archetypes of "just-in-time" modality, even delays or disruption leads to food waste and massive financial losses. Volumes moved are vast, food accounts for 23% of UK road freight, but the industry is highly competitive, driven by buyer power from dominant retailer firms. The industry has continuously innovated, removing cost to offset competitive pressure. This served a social purpose to maintain low price inflation to consumers. However, COVID-19 and Brexit have created a new urgency to reformat supply-chains that are more adaptable, resilient and manage risk.TRUSTEDBYTE step changes supply-chain management for the food sector. TRUSTEDBYTE's vision is to drive supply-chain productivity but creating a "whole industry" interoperable ecosystem for trusted data exchange, integrated with new AEO compliant API's to facilitate cross border transition alongside new telecommunications technology that provide ubiquitous accessubiquitous access to data.To deliver this vision TRUSTEDBYTE has the following objectives\[1\] To create the UK's first "data trust" for governance and sharing of data across the fresh produce sector at whole industry scale.\[2\] To develop a novel AEO compliant API integrated to HMRC thatHMRC that facilitates cross border food trade.\[3\] To develop a novel low cost 4G / Sat communications solution that provides ubiquitous access to supply chain data across the EU.\[4\] To exploit these by widening the interoperability of theof the Bluering supply chain management software.\[5\] To demonstrate these capabilities at scale across the UK fresh produce industry.\[6\] To develop new business models to exploit new functionality.TRUSTEBYTE's brings together leading technology developers (Bluering developers, Excelerate Ltd, Satellite Application Catapult, MTC) with key members of the UK fresh produce supply chain (Fesa UK, World Wide Fruit, Davis Worldwide, Histon Sweet Spreads), trade bodies (Fresh Produce Network), HEI's (University of Lincoln), standards bodies (BSi) and support from key regulators (HMRC / FSA) as well as input from Pinsent Masons, the UK's leading legal experts on data governance.It provides a private sector approach to support multiple high-profile elements of government policy (facilitating post Brexit trade, food security, productivity, clean growth).