International Business Machines Corporation
Upstream visibility in supply-chain

Abstract:

An example operation may include one or more of acquiring, by a retailer node, an inventory data from a supplier node over a blockchain network, receiving, by the retailer node, outstanding orders data of the supplier node, generating, by the retailer node, an order distribution policy based on the inventory data and the outstanding orders data, and executing a smart contract to order goods from the supplier node based on the ordering policy.