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  1. Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management

    Sara Saberi, Mahtab Kouhizadeh, Joseph Sarkis, et al. · 2018 · International Journal of Production Research · 3,843 citations

    Globalisation of supply chains makes their management and control more difficult. Blockchain technology, as a distributed digital ledger technology which ensures transparency, traceability, and security, is showing promise for easing some global supply chain management problems. In this paper, blockchain technology and smart contracts are critically examined with potential application to supply chain management. Local and global government, community, and consumer pressures to meet sustainability goals prompt us to further investigate how blockchain can address and aid supply chain sustainability. Part of this critical examination is how blockchains, a potentially disruptive technology that

  2. An agri-food supply chain traceability system for China based on RFID & blockchain technology

    Feng Tian · 2016 · 2016 13th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM) · 1,259 citations

    For the past few years, food safety has become an outstanding problem in China. Since traditional agri-food logistics pattern can not match the demands of the market anymore, building an agri-food supply chain traceability system is becoming more and more urgent. In this paper, we study the utilization and development situation of RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) and blockchain technology first, and then we analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using RFID and blockchain technology in building the agri-food supply chain traceability system; finally, we demonstrate the building process of this system. It can realize the traceability with trusted information in the entire agri-food s

  4. Blockchain for Supply Chain Traceability: Business Requirements and Critical Success Factors

    Gabriella M. Hastig, M. Sodhi · 2020 · Production and Operations Management · 873 citations

    We seek to guide operations management (OM) research on the implementation of supply chain traceability systems by identifying business requirements and the factors critical to successful implementation. We first motivate the need for implementing traceability systems in two very different industries—cobalt mining and pharmaceuticals—and present business requirements and critical success factors for implementation. Next, we describe how we carried out thematic analysis of practitioner and scholarly articles on implementing blockchain for supply chain traceability. Finally, we present our results pertaining to the needs of different stakeholders such as suppliers, consumers, and regulators. T

  5. Blockchain-based traceability in Agri-Food supply chain management: A practical implementation

    Miguel Pincheira, Muhammad Salek Ali, Massimo Vecchio, et al. · 2018 · 849 citations

    The recent, exponential rise in adoption of the most disparate Internet of Things (IoT) devices and technologies has reached also Agriculture and Food (Agri-Food) supply chains, drumming up substantial research and innovation interest towards developing reliable, auditable and transparent traceability systems. Current IoT-based traceability and provenance systems for Agri-Food supply chains are built on top of centralized infrastructures and this leaves room for unsolved issues and major concerns, including data integrity, tampering and single points of failure. Blockchains, the distributed ledger technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, represent a new and innovative techno

  8. Blockchain-Based Soybean Traceability in Agricultural Supply Chain

    Khaled Salah, Nishara Nizamuddin, Raja Jayaraman, et al. · 2019 · IEEE Access · 691 citations

    The globalized production and the distribution of agriculture production bring a renewed focus on the safety, quality, and the validation of several important criteria in agriculture and food supply chains. The growing number of issues related to food safety and contamination risks has established an immense need for effective traceability solution that acts as an essential quality management tool ensuring adequate safety of products in the agricultural supply chain. Blockchain is a disruptive technology that can provide an innovative solution for product traceability in agriculture and food supply chains. Today's agricultural supply chains are complex ecosystem involving several stakeholder

  9. Boundary conditions for traceability in food supply chains using blockchain technology

    Kay Behnke, Marijn Janssen · 2019 · International Journal of Information Management · 660 citations

    Traceability of ingredients in food supply chains has become paramount in a world in which markets become global, heterogeneous, and complex and in which consumers expect a high level of quality. The food supply chain consists of many organizations having different interests and are often reluctant to share traceability information with each other. Blockchain has been advocated for improving traceability by providing trust. Yet, practice proved to be more stubborn. The goal of this paper is to identify boundary conditions for sharing assurance information to improve traceability. Four cases in the food supply chain have been investigated using a template analysis of 16 interviews. Eighteen b

  11. Blockchain-based framework for supply chain traceability: A case example of textile and clothing industry

    T. Agrawal, Vijay Kumar, Rudrajeet Pal, et al. · 2021 · Comput. Ind. Eng. · 485 citations

    Traceability has emerged as a prime requirement for a multi-tier and multi-site production. It enables visibility and caters to the consumer requirements of transparency and quality assurance. Textile and clothing industry is one such example that requires traceability implementation to address prevailing problems of information asymmetry and low visibility. Customers find it difficult to access product data that can facilitate ethical buying practices or assure product authenticity. Besides, it is challenging for stakeholders to share crucial information in an insecure environment with risk of data manipulations and fear of losing information advantage. In this context, this study investiga

  13. A Blockchain-Based Approach for Drug Traceability in Healthcare Supply Chain

    Ahmad Musamih, Khaled Salah, Raja Jayaraman, et al. · 2021 · IEEE Access · 382 citations

    Healthcare supply chains are complex structures spanning across multiple organizational and geographical boundaries, providing critical backbone to services vital for everyday life. The inherent complexity of such systems can introduce impurities including inaccurate information, lack of transparency and limited data provenance. Counterfeit drugs is one consequence of such limitations within existing supply chains which not only has serious adverse impact on human health but also causes severe economic loss to the healthcare industry. Consequently, existing studies have emphasized the need for a robust, end-to-end track and trace system for pharmaceutical supply chains. Therein, an end-to-en

  14. A Systematic Literature Review of Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain Traceability Implementations

    Thomas K. Dasaklis, Theodore G. Voutsinas, G. Tsoulfas, et al. · 2022 · Sustainability · 172 citations

    In recent years, traceability systems have been developed as practical tools for improving supply chain (SC) transparency and visibility, especially in health and safety-sensitive sectors like food and pharmaceuticals. Blockchain-related SC traceability research has received significant attention during the last several years, and arguably blockchain is currently the most promising technology for providing traceability-related services in SC networks. This paper provides a systematic literature review of the various technical implementation aspects of blockchain-enabled SC traceability systems. We apply different drivers for classifying the selected literature, such as (a) the various domain

  15. Blockchain-based Supply Chain Traceability for COVID-19 personal protective equipment

    Ilhaam A. Omar, Mazin S. Debe, R. Jayaraman, et al. · 2022 · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 150 citations

    The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted many industries, in particular the healthcare sector exposing systemic vulnerabilities in emergency preparedness, risk mitigation, and supply chain management. A major challenge during the pandemic was related to the increased demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), resulting in critical shortages for healthcare and frontline workers. This is due to the lack of information visibility combined with the inability to precisely track product movement within the supply chain, requiring a robust traceability solution. Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger that ensures a transparent, safe, and secure exchange of data among supply chain sta

  16. Strengthening consumer trust in beef supply chain traceability with a blockchain-based human-machine reconcile mechanism

    Shoufeng Cao, Warwick Powell, M. Foth, et al. · 2021 · Comput. Electron. Agric. · 125 citations

    Abstract This study aimed to strengthen trust in the cross-border beef supply chain between Australia and China from a consumer perspective based on a blockchain-based supply chain implementation. Using a design science approach, this study’s initial prototype was developed to strength consumer trust. The study was conducted in partnership with Australian agricultural producers and processors, and empirically tested with Chinese consumers using an exploratory, qualitative methodology comprising focus groups. Based on the empirical evidence from prototype testing and the insights from supply chain stakeholders, this paper explores new features for a human-machine reconcile mechanism that enab

  17. Applying integrated Blockchain and Big Data technologies to improve supply chain traceability and information sharing in the textile sector

    Manal Hader, David Tchoffa, A. E. Mhamedi, et al. · 2022 · J. Ind. Inf. Integr. · 122 citations

    : Nowadays, the textile industry is strutting its stuff. On one hand, customers have a diverse choice of products available on personalized mobile apps, with immediate deliveries and returns. On the other hand, production is more effective and efficient than ever, thanks to increased automation and computerization in textile processes. However current supply chain management systems still face several serious problems such as tampering of products, poor traceability, delay, and lack of real-time information sharing. Today, a new technology called blockchain, which is a ground-breaking innovation in decentralized information technologies, can solve the above-mentioned challenges due to its im

  19. Supply chain traceability using blockchain

    P. Azevedo, J. Gomes, M. Romão · 2023 · Operations Management Research · 73 citations

    In the current global marketplace supply chains can span a huge number of countries, cross many borders and require interoperation of a multitude of organizations. This vastness of supply chains impacts business competitiveness since it adds complexity and can difficult securing traceability, chain of custody and transparency. We propose that assuring chain of custody and traceability via Blockchain (BC) allows organizations to demonstrate product provenance, integrity and compliance. This work proposes that to effect true traceability the more complete approach is to connect both the Supply Chain Actors (SCAs) and products identifications using digital certificates. A Blockchain is used to

  20. High-Efficiency Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Traceability

    Hanqing Wu, Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 63 citations

    Supply chain traceability refers to product tracking from the source to customers, demanding transparency, authenticity, and high efficiency. In recent years, blockchain has been widely adopted in supply chain traceability to provide transparency and authenticity, while the efficiency issue is understudied. In practice, as the numerous product records accumulate, the time- and storage- efficiencies will decrease remarkably. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work studying the efficiency issue in blockchain-based supply chain traceability. Compared to the traditional method, which searches the records stored in a single chunk sequentially, we replicate the records in multip

  21. Supply chain traceability and counterfeit detection of COVID-19 vaccines using novel blockchain-based Vacledger system

    Uvini J. Munasinghe, M. Halgamuge · 2023 · Expert Systems with Applications · 45 citations

    We propose a novel framework, Vacledger, for supply chain traceability and counterfeit detection of COVID-19 vaccines using a blockchain network. It includes four smart contracts on a private-permissioned blockchain network for supply chain traceability and counterfeit detection of COVID-19 vaccine, more specifically to (i) handle the rules and regulations of vaccine importing countries and provide authorization for cross the borders (regulatory compliance and border authorization smart contract), (ii) register new and imported vaccines in the Vacledger system (vaccine registration smart contract), (iii) find the number of stocks that have arrived in the Vacledger system (stock accumulation

  22. Opportunities and limitations of public blockchain-based supply chain traceability

    Oliver Bischoff, Stefan Seuring · 2021 · Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications · 41 citations

    PurposeBlockchain technology is provoking significant disruptions, thereby affecting supply chain management. This study endeavoured to advance research regarding blockchain-based supply chain traceability by identifying the opportunities and limitations that accompany the adoption of public blockchains. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to contribute to contemporary supply chain research by an assessment of blockchain technology and its linkages to traceability.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is conceptual. The authors summarised the relevant literature on the concepts of supply chain traceability, conceptualised key elements exclusive to the public blockchain and highlighted opp

  23. Enhancing Supply Chain Traceability through Blockchain and IoT Integration: A Comprehensive Review

    E. Wong, H. Ting, A. F. Atanda · 2024 · Green Intelligent Systems and Applications · 38 citations

    Supply chain traceability is essential for ensuring safety, preventing counterfeit goods, and improving efficiency. The integration of blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a transformative approach to enhance supply chain traceability by creating a secure, transparent, and efficient way to track the movement of goods and materials. This comprehensive literature review examines how the integration of blockchain and the Internet of Things can enhance supply chain traceability, utilizing a systematic literature search to identify and analyze all relevant studies. Recent and related articles selected from the Scopus database were reviewed. Our analysis underscore

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