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Demonstration of the Workflow for a Distributed Manufacturing Contract

This is a demonstration of the workflow for a distributed manufacturing contract. The particular scenario involves the initiator of the contract, who takes on multiple roles including buyer, contracting for the production of a specific quantity of an item. The manufacturing is distributed across many manufacturers, and the quality assurance is carried out by a single entity.

The process is as follows:

• Each manufacturer will need to manufacture a single item as a prototype.
• The prototype will be evaluated by the quality inspector.
• If the quality inspector is satisfied that the manufacturer is capable of providing the item to the required standard, the contract for manufacturing the remainder of the items assigned to that manufacturer will move forward.

This scenario is meant to replicate a use case that is typical of scenarios such as humanitarian aid organizations wishing to distribute the manufacturing of an item across multiple manufacturers in a location where the buyer does not have prior knowledge of the capabilities of the manufacturers that are being contracted.