Data for: Leveraging blockchain to improve automotive supply chain traceability

The automotive industry worldwide seems to be spontaneously changing with supply chain improvement being one of the main focus areas along with cost reduction, process optimization and enhancing timely throughput. The general success parameter for achieving a better output in all the said focus areas is having an effective traceability system in place. Traceability for the automotive industry is a system documenting the genealogy of parts involved in manufacturing a specific product. Even with companies having an enormous amount of capital invested for perfecting their supply chain and achieving traceability, it is seen that they still have limited visibility and insight into their supply chain at a given instance. This study aims to leverage blockchain technology to eliminate inefficiencies of the conventional automotive supply chains for increasing transparency, streamlining processes and decentralizing network while providing stakeholders and companies with a host of value-adding features that ensure smoother and faster transaction. The data-set contains supporting files for the study that demonstrates the advantages of blockchain enabled automotive supply chain. It also contains the Hyperledger Composer files that was used for deployment of the said network.

全球汽车产业正经历自发性变革，供应链优化、成本管控、流程优化与提升按时产出效率均为核心关注方向。要在上述所有重点领域实现更优产出，核心前提是搭建一套高效的可追溯系统（Traceability）。汽车行业的可追溯性指的是用于记录特定产品制造过程中所涉及零部件谱系的系统。尽管诸多企业投入巨额资金以完善供应链并实现可追溯性，但在任一特定时刻，其对供应链的可视度与洞察能力仍较为有限。本研究旨在借助区块链（Blockchain）技术，消除传统汽车供应链的低效弊端，提升供应链透明度、优化业务流程并实现网络去中心化；同时为各利益相关方与企业提供一系列增值功能，保障交易更顺畅、更高效。本数据集包含支撑本研究的相关文件，用以展示区块链赋能的汽车供应链的优势；同时还包含用于部署上述网络的Hyperledger Composer文件。