1. Manthan Topic: Plugging the leaks
Transparent Supply chain:
➔ A new volunteer based organizational structure to maintain transparency
in supplied goods.
Team Details:
➔ Coordinator: Devansh Shah
➔ Members: Jigar Thakkar, Kalpit Thakkar, Mohit Jain, Princu Jain
➔
Institution: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

2. Problems in opaque supply chain
● The origins of a company’s products used are pretty murky.
● Beyond the supply chain function, virtually no one cares.
● Need to worry about cost transparency, distribution, quality, safety,
ethics, and environmental impact.
● Farsighted organization to addressing new threats and opportunities
presented by the question, “Where does this stuff come from?”
● What can be done?
– Driven by growing calls for transparency, firms such as Wal-
Mart are beginning to use new technologies to provide
provenance data to the marketplace.
– States like California have transparency laws that are product
based .

3. Example
● There is now a growing movement to understand the total
environmental impact of products and services. In order for an
organization to do that, they need to understand the product’s impact
up and down the supply chain.
● Take as an example an automobile manufacturer; if we were only to
look at the environmental impact of the manufacturing process to put
together the car, then we would be missing a large aspect of the
overall environmental impact of a car.
● What about the environmental impact in obtaining all the raw materials
necessary to build the car?
● What about the manufacturing done by all of the suppliers that create
the parts that go into the car?
● What about the environmental impact of shipping those parts from the
suppliers to the car manufacturer? What about all of the emissions that
are produced by the car once it is in use by the consumer?
● What about the impact in the disposal of the car when it is no longer
usable?

4. Solution: Technology backed Volunteer-driven
Organization
● Volunteer network collect data. Posts it for a central database.
● Core team to recognize products in supply and associate
supplier/manufacturer.
● Ally with Manufacturers/Suppliers.
● Collect Cost details:
– Environment cost. During Production, Use, Disposal
– Supplier, Manufacturer, Retailer cost breakdown.
– Transport cost/mode, production center.
● Make details available through Techonology:
– Website
– Mobile Apps

5. Why?
● Take a bottle of Pepsi,
– Find the cost breakdown for every level in chain
– Find Environment Impact/re-usability
– Find transport cost/mode, labor used etc.
This will inculcate responsibility for both buyers and suppliers.
Help reduce footprints and boost local/less mobile goods.