It’s real, trust me! Establishing supply chain provenance using blockchain

By M. Montecchi, Kirk Plangger, M. Etter. Business Horizons, 2019

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Abstract In a global marketplace, customers are often unaware of the exact sources of the products they purchase and consume. To address this lack of awareness, blockchain technology can be implemented in supply chains to increase customers’ knowledge of products’ provenance. Provenance knowledge—information about products’ origin, production, modifications, and custody—enables customers to be assured of their purchasing decisions. This assurance comes from information on the origin, authenticity, custody, and integrity of the product that helps reduce risk perceptions. We develop a provenance knowledge framework and show how its application can enhance assurances and reduce perceived risks via the application of blockchain. We present a guide on how to implement blockchain to establish provenance knowledge and close with a kind warning on the importance of demonstrating the value of blockchain to customers.

Subfields: Information Systems

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Evaluating the factors that influence blockchain adoption in the freight logistics industry (2020, background): “Also, government policy and support is an influential factor within this context and entails the ability of relevant government agencies to provide aids and enact rules and regulations to encourage blockchain adoption in the logistics industry (Montecchi et al, 2019).”
Blockchain Adoption for Combating Deceptive Counterfeits (2018, background): “Montecchi et al. (2019) reports that blockchain is especially effective in addressing to the problem of counterfeit in the luxury market.”
Blockchain and the circular economy: potential tensions and critical reflections from practice (2020, background): “These characteristics of lessened information typically build trust, within and between entities, especially in electronic trading relationships (Montecchi, Plangger, and Etter 2019; Mukherjee and Nath 2003).”
Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities (2020, unknown): “SC provenance is delivered by providing certifiability, traceability, verifiability and tractability of product information, origin and authenticity assurance and integrity along the entire SC spanning across borders (Montecchi et al., 2019; Liu and Li, 2019; Tang and Veelenturf, 2019).”
Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review and Directions for Future Research (2019, background): “Customers are often unaware of the exact sources of the products they purchase and consume in a global marketplace [132].”
A supply chain transparency and sustainability technology appraisal model for blockchain technology (2019, background): “…Xu 2017), intelligent transportation systems (Lei et al. 2017), avoiding fake or shoddy products and unethical behaviour (Mackey and Nayyar 2017; Montecchi, Plangger, and Etter 2019), security improvement (Dorri et al. 2017), smart-contract transactions (Sikorski, Haughton, and Kraft 2017),…”