Global clothing and apparel brands Nike, PVH Corp (Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein), HermanKay, and retailers Kohl’s and Macy’s participated in a blockchain proof of concept (PoC) using RFID tags for tracking products in the supply chain.
Auburn University’s RFID Lab ran the PoC for the CHIP (CHain Integration Project) Initiative, which aims to use blockchain for product data exchange from manufacturing to store. The RFID Lab has released a whitepaper.
The mentioned companies participated in the first phase of the project, which successfully integrated serialized data streams from manufacturing to retail, creating a transparent trail of the product’s journey. Auburn University said the brands contributed their item-level data streams from various supply chain nodes from January to December 2019.
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