A government controlled database would have the same effect. You don’t need a decentralized ledger if everyone can agree to trust a single party. This is the foundation of like 50% of silicon valley startups that act as middle men to existing markets.
Please, news media people. I beg of you. Just admit you don’t know what blockchain is. I promise you, most people will not judge you for it, and the few who do also don’t actually know what it is.
The answer to the supply chain crisis is of course to take computational resources that could be used to manage logistics, and instead use them for nothing.
like supply chain management is already a hard mathematical problem, why would the solution be to throw your resources at a completely unrelated hard math problem? Tech journalists are just the biggest dummies on earth.