The power of a blockchain-based supply chain

By R. Azzi, R. Kilany, Maria Sokhn. Computers & industrial engineering, 2019

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Abstract A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. It is designed to maintain the quality of sensitive goods during the whole shipment. Centralized supply chain management systems expose the supply chain to corruption, fraud, and tampering. Blockchain has emerged as a new distributed information technology; it represents a new approach in supply chain area, where visibility and transparency of product flows are the principal challenges. This paper describes how the blockchain can be integrated into the supply chain architecture to create a reliable, transparent, authentic and secure system. To reach this goal, we studied the benefits of introducing the blockchain to the supply chain and the challenges encountered in a blockchain-based supply chain management ecosystem. We combined theoretical and real-world application studies to build our theory about the requirements for an efficient blockchain-based supply chain.

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

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Citations in the corpus

When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review on Current Development and Potential Applications (2020, methodology): “To answer RQ1 and determine corresponding research meth-ods for RQ2, we classiﬁed the selected papers in terms of supply-chain-centric topics to identify the research foci and examine the potential inﬂuence of and emphasis on blockchain in supply chain applications [47].”
Evaluating the factors that influence blockchain adoption in the freight logistics industry (2020, background): “…the adoption of blockchain in the freight logistics industry as against previous studies that focused on blockchain adoption from broader supply chains and sustainable supply chains (Azzi et al, 2019; Helo and Hao, 2019; Kamble et al, 2019; Saberi et al., 2019; Yadav and Singh, 2020).”
A literature review of blockchain technology applications in supply chains: A comprehensive analysis of themes, methodologies and industries (2021, unknown): “…including the version number, the hash value of the previous block, the timestamp of the current block writing time, the nonce and difficulty target used to prove the difficulty of the workload, and a total hash of Merkle tree root for verifying the block body transaction (Azzi et al., 2019).”
Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities (2020, unknown): “Blockchain based solution with IoT enabled smart containers, smart contracts can be used to manage shipments, automate payments, track violations and make the whole SC efficient (Azzi et al., 2019; Christodoulou et al., 2018).”
Blockchain-based framework for supply chain traceability: A case example of textile and clothing industry (2021, background): “This system can track and record all the information related to each stage of product transformation while safeguarding crucial and sensitive data throughout the supply chain (Azzi et al., 2019).”