Sibintek will introduce blockchain at gas stations

Specialists of the Sibintek digital cluster are testing blockchain technology in electronic document managementbetween gas stations (gas stations) and suppliers of related products for mini-markets at gas stations. This was reported to ForkLog by company representatives.

According to them, electronic document management services based on EDI standards are still widespread in retail, but due to their own limitations they are a bit outdated.

«Within the framework of EDI, you can make limiteda set of operations: pre-order, order, delivery, acceptance of delivery and some others. It is not uncommon for gas stations and their suppliers to have legal relationships that develop beyond the specified steps and are not regulated by standards»,— explains Ilya Pelevin, project director of the Sibintek digital cluster.

In addition, EDI is not able to create a trusted environment between the supplier and the customer. Lack of trust between participants in the delivery process can lead to long-term reconciliation of reconciliation reports.

Sibintek has proposed expanding the capabilities of EDI using the blockchain.

«Technology has automated the processordering and delivery. The parties began to operate with the same information and synchronously track the delivery process, and also got the opportunity to almost automatically sign reconciliation reports»,— Ilya Pelevin says.

Due to the fact that it is impossible to delete or change records in an EDI service on the basis of the blockchain, the parties can monitor the relevance of the data and conduct an audit in real time.

To ensure transparency of everyone's actionsparticipant company «Sibintek» testing various blockchain frameworks. The current version of the pilot solution uses the open Exonum framework.

Recall that in July 2018, the Russian oil trading company Petroleum Trading began the commercial operation of the Proleum platform for transactions using blockchain technology.