Italia Olivicola has always been engaged in the search for new innovative tools that support and grow the entire olive-growing chain. One of the most innovative applications, widespread especially in the financial sector, is the blockchain technologyi.e. the creation of a chain of information connected to each other and not modifiable.
Italia Olivicola's idea is to use this information technology to secure the traceability of oils produced on a national scale and guarantee the final consumer and, more generally, all the stakeholders in the supply chain, a total transparency guaranteed by the blockchain model that we imagine, to make a comparison, as a notary seal. An AOP like Italia Olivicola has data available to be able to get up to the name of the olive producer and identify, through a work of georeferencing of the fields, the harvest field.
To obtain this result, aor an interface software called EvoHub able to put the individual management systems of the mills/cooperatives in communication with the blockchain database.
Currently, the olive oil supply chain compulsorily registers (DM 8077/2009 and 16059/2013) the production data in the oil loading and unloading register through theto SIAN platform, therefore we have in this way a data officially validated and controlled by the supervisory bodies. However, SIAN does not mean traceability, it does not allow knowing the producer of the olives since it is only an olive loading and unloading register and an oil loading and unloading register. Therefore, the connection between the two registers with which the supply chain is questioned from upstream to downstream and vice versa is missing.
Therefore, the two data sources used by Italia Olivicola to obtain complete traceability are two: data extrapolated from SIAN and management data of individual mills and/or cooperatives.
IThe EvoHub software, thanks to a very powerful specific algorithm, in a few minutes it interrogates the data coming from the SIAN (validated data) and the data coming from the management systems of the mills/cooperatives, restoring complete traceability up to the single producers.
Of course, the potential associated with this model is as innumerable as the production data consultation sheets: mass balances by subject, QR code printed on the sales transport documents or on the label on the finished product. These tools have made it possible to achieve certain objectives, namely:
- Speed up the response of a traceability of a mass of oil;
- Optimize quality costs (audit days)
- Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of traceability;
- Respond to mandatory requirements or voluntary certification standards (UNI EN ISO 22005:08)
- Acquire greater awareness of management software;
- Manage the large amount of data present in databases for other uses (predictive models
La transparency of a supply chain it allows us to guarantee the origin of the product and to be able to tell everything that happens in terms of production and quality in a given batch of bulk and packaged oil. There is a strong belief that we are on the right track, as only with this type of highly innovative and technological approach are we able to guarantee the transparency of the entire production chain.
