SupplyChain Easy for italian companies

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Good morning everyone, @Gaius_sama @Maarten @sota

For the past year, the SFY team has been secretly working on a dapp for creating supply chain registrations and notarizing documents. This app is very easy to use for Italian companies, especially those producing DOP and certified products.

The need arose from a request from one of our wine producing clients, who approached us for this service. We informed the client of the many options available, but what held them back was the complexity of the processes and the cost of certain types of subscriptions, such as the IBM Food and Trust subscription.
Cryptocurrency is still a taboo in many business processes. We have simplified everything and allow the company to print a QR label at the end of the process, allowing it to be applied to their product.

Currently, here in Italy, we have noticed that only a few companies are using blockchain for this purpose, and many continue to use paper-based systems because they find it difficult to use. With our dapp, we believe we can achieve a very high level of adoption, especially among companies with low to medium revenues that don’t need to create numerous batches each year.

The service would initially be entirely dedicated to the Italian market, and would then expand if successful.
We’ve also studied the legal situation and identified some key steps in which this process can help companies here in Italy.

Soneium could be a possibility for us; we’re evaluating options, and we’d like to know if there are any financing or support opportunities if the idea is well-received.

We’re already in the MVP phase, so it’s a demonstrably viable dapp.

SFY’s goal is also to access government funding, which currently exists for this type of project.

Let us know if there are any opportunities here on Soneium and, if so, how we can proceed.

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Hi everyone, is there anyone who would like to add their opinion?
Thank you

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Thanks for the interesting post.

The improvement of transparency and reliability through on-chain supply chain implementation has been under consideration in certain industries for some time, and there are already a few small-scale examples of real-world adoption. I also believe there is a certain level of demand for projects in this area. However, the reality is that the manufacturing, distribution, and retail sectors have not yet caught up with this trend. Even beyond blockchain, supply chain transparency itself remains insufficient.

To succeed in this field, B2B business development is absolutely critical — and that requires a significant amount of effort. For small builders, overcoming this hurdle is extremely difficult. Without broader adoption, the overall reliability of the supply chain doesn’t improve, which in turn further hinders adoption — a vicious cycle.

Therefore, while the development itself is valuable, in practical terms, wider adoption will likely require larger companies involved in distribution to take the lead in driving this area forward.

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Exactly, we agree with everything you said. @you425

We’ve built a platform that allows small and medium-sized companies, producing small batches and lacking an adequate technical structure, to operate with blockchain without having to deal with cryptocurrencies and without having technical experience or dedicated technical profiles.

We’ve studied the IBM Food and Trust service closely, for example, and while it currently aligns very well with the needs of a medium-large company, it’s absolutely not suitable for most others. Firstly, because it’s expensive, and secondly, because it requires a structure.

We’ve worked with several wine producers in our area on graphic design, website design, etc.
And they’ve really appreciated our solution, which, in just a few well-defined and explained steps, even allows the creation of a QR code to print on the label, without having to go through complex processes.

Selling the service would be extremely cost-effective for the end user; they could top up their credit on our platform only when needed, and could operate, as I mentioned, without having to manage wallets and cryptocurrencies.

At the same time, a contract written by us allows for registration as a verified onchain company, data entry directly onchain, customizable fields, and the recording of various documents in the form of SHA256 codes, which would allow for legal verification.

Italy has some of the strictest regulatory controls, and we believe we can make this service go viral, especially among small and medium-sized businesses. Notarizing documents by writing their SHA256 codes onchain also allows for the generation of certain proof that a given document has not been manipulated.

Currently, we have found only one similar project in Italy, using legacy technologies on agorand. Companies are still tied to wallets and cryptocurrencies, but we’ve created a platform that guides you step by step, allowing you to sign up via social media or a simple email, and post-verification, allowing you to sign up onchain as easily as if you were using any other social media.

This would also be done on a public, permissionless blockchain like Soneium, not a private one like IBM’s.

We currently believe that the supply chain isn’t truly democratic in the crypto sector, precisely because no one has ever been interested in the work of smaller companies.
We’ve already managed to reach agreements with four companies without even having an online platform yet, including a very famous photographer who we’d like to certify his digital photos onchain (he works with museums and state cultural institutions).