Supply Chain 9 min readMay 24, 2026

Supply-chain visibility in 2026: from track to prove

Boards are no longer asking 'where is the shipment?' — they are asking 'can we prove it was never tampered with?'

Neha Iyer

Director, Supply Chain Practice

Track-and-trace has become the minimum. The new bar is unit-level provenance backed by cryptographic authentication.

Exporters shipping into the US and EU are already required to prove chain-of-custody for regulated goods.

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