One of the major areas of interest for deployment of blockchains is in the supply chain sector where decentralisation combined with immutability is expected to enhance the transparency and robustness of transaction processing drastically. In this work we contribute to a feasibility study for permissioned blockchains in the context of a major international retail company. First, we characterise the types, relationships, and volumes of events that are created in the life cycle of a product from creation to ownership transfer. We use the created event model and the data from the company operations to identify the load that such an event processing system would have to manage. Then we create a prototype based on Quorum that deals with a significant subset of the events and expose the blockchain-based prototype to variations in load to identify the maximum throughput and average transaction processing time. This system can then form the basis of understanding the bottlenecks, configuration settings and platform choices needed in future potential deployment.

部署区块链的主要兴趣领域之一是供应链领域，其中去中心化与不变性相结合有望大大提高交易处理的透明度和健壮性。在这项工作中，我们致力于在一家大型国际零售公司的背景下对许可区块链进行可行性研究。首先，我们描述了从创建到所有权转移的产品生命周期中创建的事件的类型，关系和数量。我们使用创建的事件模型和来自公司运营的数据来识别此类事件处理系统必须管理的负载。然后，我们基于Quorum创建一个处理事件的重要子集的原型，并将基于区块链的原型暴露于负载变化中，以识别最大吞吐量和平均交易处理时间。然后，该系统可以构成了解未来潜在部署所需的瓶颈，配置设置和平台选择的基础。