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General

What is GSC Platform?

Genesis Supply Chain Platform is a company based in France. Our worldwide team of supply chain, IT and blockchain professionals is developing a supply chain solution to streamline processes for Supply Chain Industry while improving the customers safety. We provide a platform to all purchasing professionals to improve their businesses results in reducing the costs and time with an easy tool to implement in the blockchain technology. Each company will be able to manage and secure their own business by using the blockchain technology to fight against counterfeited parts in the supply chain.

What is the Goal of GSC Platform?

The goal of GSC Platform is to simplify the processes involved in managing the supply chain and improve safety with end to end parts tracking from manufacture to installation using the blockchain in some sensitive industries such as aviation or rail. GSC Platform will expand buyers and sellers reach through our global marketplace. By incorporating the blockchain we will be able to take advantage of the security and speed in transactions and to keep immutable records for the lifetime of parts. The UI of the platform is thinking to be the more user friendly is possible. We wish that our users are autonomous on our blockchain using our application without needing our developers as a third party to create smart contracts and implement tracking documentation into the blockchain.

Who are the GSC Platform users?

Any company which is willing to improve their supply chain processes and to strengthen their relationship with their suppliers and customers with a plug and play tool. More specifically, all organizations in the transportation industry who control and monitor parts installed on planes, trains, boats or automotive and want to anticipate their supply and subcontracting as well as improve their clients’ safety in travels. Our current users are FlyDynamics, Aviator Solutions LLC, Guan Chuan or Forecast Electronics.

When will the platform be available?

The purchasing management: IT Platform is under its testing phase until building till the end of June 2019. Then it will be ready for the testing phase of our pilot users. It will be then available for the daily business of our users. Feel free to join us as a Pilot User.

Lexicon

  • Blockchain : Blockchain is a technology that appeared in 2008, aiming to secure exchanges, data storage as well as transactions via algorithms.
  • Smart Contract : A Smart Contrat is a second generation blockchain. Smart Contract allows to digitalize a contract between two people or entities in order to make it automatic, auto-feasible and secure.
  • ERP : The Enterprise resource planning is the management of all the information and resources involved in a company's operations by means of an integrated computer system.
  • Purchase process : This is the protocol in any company followed by buyers in order to purchase in the best conditions. Time needed may vary (average 30 days) according to the purchase. (heavy purchase, investment, emergency, recurring purchase).
  • RFI : Request For Information or supplier’s discovery. This is the first step of purchasing process, allowing the buyer to discover new suppliers able to deliver his needs to meet his client’s requirements. It can be a long stage (2 to 3 weeks), very tedious and time consuming in the daily schedule of the buyer, as he needs to recover an important load of data regarding the suppliers.
  • RFQ : Request For Quotation. This is where the supplier gets selected by the company. Methodology and time are required for this stage. Offers assessment dashboard will allow the buyer to winnow to 2 or 3 of the best suppliers according to their RFQ’s. Executive committee will make the final decision.
  • Supplier performance follow-up : This is a critical step for a company. It is done after delivery of the product or after service is performed by the supplier. The buyer rates its suppliers in order to analyze in which area they become less efficient. This way, the buyer implements corrective actions to improve the business with the concerned supplier.