Blockchain applications in supply chains, transport and logistics: a systematic review of the literature

By Mehrdokht Pournader, Yangyan Shi, Stefan Seuring, S. C. Lenny Koh. International Journal of Production Research, 2019

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This paper presents current academic and industrial frontiers on blockchain application in supply chain, logistics and transport management. We conduct a systematic review of the literature and find four main clusters in the co-citation analysis, namely Technology, Trust, Trade, and Traceability/Transparency. For each cluster, and based on the pool of articles included in it, we apply an inductive method of reasoning and discuss the emerging themes and applications of blockchains for supply chains, logistics and transport. We conclude by discussing the main themes for future research on blockchain technology and its application in industry and services.

Subfields: Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities (2020, positive): “Blockchain integration with SC increases visibility across the entire value chain, reduces paperwork and human errors, ensures transparency amongst all parties, enhances security of data, complements IoTs, helps identify counterfeit products, and enables efficient traceability and management (Tijan ”
A literature review of blockchain technology applications in supply chains: A comprehensive analysis of themes, methodologies and industries (2021, neutral): “…et al., 2020; Duan et al., 2020; H. H. Feng et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2019), two articles reviewed the transportation field (Astarita et al., 2020; Pournader et al., 2020), and the remaining four articles did not have a specific application background (Gurtu & Johny, 2019; Queiroz et al., 2019;…”
When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review on Current Development and Potential Applications (2020, background): “Through a series of explorations and implementations of several pilot projects in various sectors, blockchain technology has found practical applications from both academic and practical perspectives [98]–[101].”
Blockchain adoption in operations and supply chain management: empirical evidence from an emerging economy (2020, methodology): “Better still, our outcome reinforces the positive influence of trust on collaborations, on resilience in humanitarian operations (Dubey et al. 2020), SCM platform operations (Choi, Feng, and Li 2019), as well as on the relationship between SCM members (Pournader et al. 2020), among others.”
Analysis of resilience strategies and ripple effect in blockchain-coordinated supply chains: An agent-based simulation study (2020, positive): “The most important influencing factors and features of blockchain are immutability, transparency (single source of truth), disintermediation, irreversibility, and the automation potential through smart contracts (Babich and Hilary, 2020; Pournader et al., 2020).”