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tex.tracer was founded by Bart Westerman and Jolanda Kooi who have assembled extensive fashion industry experience working in China and Hong Kong, and both now run separate importing companies in Amsterdam.
Fujitsu has been globally active in Blockchain technology since 2015 when it was an early member of the Hyperledger project, an open-source community focused on developing stable frameworks for enterprise-grade Blockchain deployments.
The fashion industry has faced criticism over how its supply chains operate. Although they may want more transparency, brand owners and retailers have never had an effective way to achieve it. With the new supply chain transparency platform called tex.tracer, brand owners receive the insights they need to act upon and with the click of a button report to all stakeholders. By scanning a QR code on a garment with their mobile, consumers can trace the garment’s history.
On the tex.tracer platform, information is obtained from brand owners when they register a garment, and the system automatically emails companies down the supply chain. Data is verified using mobile geolocation, time stamps and digital handshakes, certification, and automated checks. If anomalies are detected, the system will not accept the data entry. Once verified, the data is stored using Blockchain to ensure privacy, trustworthiness, and credibility. Blockchain provides a public electronic ledger that can be openly shared among disparate users to create an unchangeable record of transactions with each entry time-stamped and linked to the next one.
