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

Made Smarter Review估计，通过在整个供应链中广泛采用和整合新型智能技术，英国食品和饮料行业可以在10年内实现560亿英镑的生产率增长和效率节约。与制造商、供应链合作伙伴、工业数字技术（IDTs）供应商、贸易和政府组织组成的大型联盟合作，英国领先的三明治公司雷诺食品有限公司（Raynor Foods Ltd）将开发一个数字化食品供应链的国家和开放示范——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链和价值链利益相关者联系起来，以提高业务生产力、敏捷性和弹性。虽然这是一个全国性的食品供应链示范，但英国三明治行业的价值超过56亿英镑，雇佣超过32.5万人，复合年增长率为4.2%。最近，广泛宣传的健康和安全问题（NHS李斯特菌爆发和Pret/过敏反应）将有关生产方法、可追溯性和供应链问责制的问题推到了公众的视线中。这些供应链高度分散、快速发展的特性使该行业的关键部分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、浪费（产品和财务）、英国脱欧对国际供应链和消费者安全的影响。尽管大型国际公司已经采用了新的IDT技术，如区块链- dlt、集成物联网平台和人工智能分析，但估计有1万家中小企业供应商负担不起/无法获得这些技术，而且没有行业范围内的采用（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个IDT（区块链- dlt，物联网和人工智能），并在三明治制造供应链中进行演示。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，物联网将整合关键元数据，新的人工智能驱动的分析将提高生产力/减少浪费。雷诺食品公司将展示开发的技术。当在全国推广时，这种新型集成的IDT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。虽然食品和数字行业是该示范项目的典范，但该联盟的愿景（尤其是技术合作伙伴）和优先事项将是在多个工业领域分享最佳实践、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。

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.