Introduction: Why Transparency Has Become a Supply Chain Imperative Global supply chains have grown increasingly complex, interconnected, and vulnerable to disruption. Companies manage thousands of suppliers, logistics partners, and distributors spread across continents. This complexity has created critical blind spots—lack of visibility into the origin of goods, gaps in traceability, counterfeit risks, fraud, and inefficiencies in the flow of data. Consumers, regulators, and business partners are demanding more transparency than ever before. They want proof of authenticity, ethical sourcing, sustainability, and compliance. Traditional systems rely heavily on siloed databases, manual documentation, and disparate platforms unable to deliver full end-to-end visibility.…