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Enrico Camerinelli

Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach

Aite Group

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26 May 2008

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Blockchain in the Supply Chain: Building the IT Stack

Blockchain-based applications developed by SCtech (pronounced “skytech”) players (i.e., software vendors dedicated to developing blockchain-based applications for supply chain management) are dispersed across diverse supply chain (SC) processes: document management, traceability, provenance, and finance. They are currently engaged in proof-of-conc...

17 November 2016 Financial Supply Chain

Blockchain for Supply Chain: 16 Vendors to Watch

I am about to publish a report on software vendors that develop blockchain-based applications for supply chain. I call them SCtech (supply chain tech- pronounced “skytech”), to differentiate them from Fintech players that provide IT solutions for the financial services industry. The following are the key points of the document: > Possible adopt...

17 October 2016 Transaction Banking

Why Supply Chain Finance -Still- Keeps Bankers Up at Night

Global Supply chain finance’s (SCF’s) original value proposition is to facilitate access to finance by arbitraging an “anchor” buyer’s lower funding costs on selected suppliers’ behalf. This principle of SCF would lead one to believe that almost all existing SCF programs are running with strong credit-rated buyers. In this report, Aite Group uncov...

22 May 2016 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Blockchain in the Supply Chain

This paper assesses to what degree blockchain technology is part of corporate supply chain management practitioners’ domain expertise, as well as if there is any useful impact of blockchain-based applications on supply chain processes. A significant roadblock is, however, the extremely poor understanding corporate people have about blockchain. The...

13 May 2016 Financial Supply Chain

How I Explained Blockchain to My Grandmother

My grandmother likes to stay informed and recently told me: << I read on the magazine a few days ago about something called “blockchain”. Everybody seems to have fallen in love with it so it must be something important. Unfortunately the article was full of technical jargon and I could not understand a thing. Do you know what it is? >>...

18 March 2016 /payments Transaction Banking

Blockchain in the Supply Chain

I am lining up the key characteristics/enablers that I believe make blockchain valuable to supply chain and trade. Next step will be to map these characteristics/enablers with supply chain and trade processes to appreciate whether blockchain-based solutions are the right fit. Perhaps you may want to comments/ amend/ add? These are the characteri...

03 March 2016 Financial Supply Chain

Ripple and The Uberization of Banks

What I find interesting of Ripple that I don't read much about is that it basically proposes a "uberization" of the banking system: What corporate users need are funds to make their payments, and those funds do not necessarily come from one bank. I just finished reading a quote from the CEO of DBS Bank that "in the future people wil...

27 January 2016 /payments Transaction Banking