The modern retail environment is shifting at a very fast pace and it is non-negotiable to be agile and precise. Retailers find themselves under intense pressure to rationalize supply chains, eliminate waste and ensure that the right products and in the right quantity and at the right time arrive. Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory techniques have become important here again. Nevertheless, classical ERP solutions have alone proven to be ill-prepared to handle the complexity of real-time inventory flows involving multiple stakeholders. The combination of Blockchain and ERP is increasingly seen as a game changer, a combination that can offer a common, immutable ledger of inventory movements and a new height of automation and trust in retail business processes.

Leading the change in this sphere is Sivasubramanian Kalaiselvan, a senior architect in the field of supply chains who has played a leading role in making blockchain-enabled JIT inventory systems real. Through a career that is based in developing high-impact enterprise solutions, Kalaiselvan has managed several initiatives in the field of chemicals, manufacturing, and retail. His career highlight has been to configure an end-to-end architecture of a Blockchain-integrated JIT Vendor Consignment Inventory (VCI) system which is developed to work in tandem with legacy SAP ERP platforms. His efforts have improved not just the level of traceability and the speeds at which operations run but have also geared his organization toward being ahead of the technological de novo.