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

Pournader, Mehrdokht; Shi, Yangyan; Seuring, Stefan; Koh, S.C. Lenny

doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1650976

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“…This necessitates re-audits to confirm if sub-suppliers have in fact been discontinued/removed from the supply chain and if new actors are now contributing to the SC. Increasingly technological solutions (such as blockchain) are emerging that could support high levels of complexity and enable real-time confirmation of SC material flows [112,113]. Such solutions would register discontinuation of certain sub-suppliers but new SC actors would have to be brought onboard.…”

Section: Temporal Nature Of Supply Chain Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

2020

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Sustainability in supply chain management (SSCM) has become established in both academia and increasingly in practice. As stakeholders continue to require focal companies (FCs) to take more responsibility for their entire supply chains (SCs), this has led to the development of multi-tier SSCM (MT-SSCM). Much extant research has focused on simple supply chains from certain industries. Recently, a comprehensive traceability for sustainability (TfS) framework has been proposed, which outlines how companies could achieve MT-SSCM through traceability. Our research builds on this and responds to calls for cases from the automotive industry by abductively analysing a multi-tier supply chain (MT-SC) transparency case study. This research analyses a raw material SC that is particularly renowned for sustainability problems—the cobalt supply chain for electric vehicles—and finds that the extant literature has oversimplified the operationalisation of transparency in MT-SSCM. We compare the supply chain maps of the MT-SC before and after an auditing and mapping project to demonstrate the transparency achieved. Our findings identify challenges to the operationalisation of SC transparency and we outline how FCs might set to increase MT-SC transparency for sustainability.

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Section: Temporal Nature Of Supply Chain Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

2020

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“…This research adopts a literature review method in order to answer the research questions. There are several review papers on blockchain and supply chain management; however, none of them have a specific focus on food supply chain with a management focus [19,21,31,35,48,49]. These papers provide the foundation for this research.…”

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“…It is powerful proof for investigating the possibilities of food crisis. It allows companies to trace back along the supply chain and isolate certain ingredients from specific suppliers more efficiently [23,35]. It also acts as evidence for containing products, such as organic food, halal food, fair trade food, etc., which allows for customers to buy with confidence.…”

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“…Smart contract is another important feature of blockchain, which is a digitalized contract and operates automatically once certain agreements are met [34]. The use of smart contact can significantly speed up the transactions and enhance trust [35][36][37]. For instance, payment can automatically be sent to producers once products arrive at the warehouse.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, there are also a few challenges of IoT deployments including data confidentiality, vulnerability, data integrity, and stakeholder's privacy [34,55,[75][76][77]. Therefore, protection and security are important when using IoT devices in supply chains, which can be developed by combining with blockchain protocol [19,34,35,39,75,76].…”

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A Content-Analysis Based Literature Review in Blockchain Adoption within Food Supply Chain

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one out of 10 people get sick from eating contaminated food. Complex food production process and globalization make food supply chain more delicate. Many technologies have been investigated in recent years to address food insecurity and achieve efficiency in dealing with food recalls. One of the most promising technologies is Blockchain, which has already been used successfully in financial aspects, such as bitcoin, and it is attracting interests from food supply chain organizations. As blockchain has characteristics, such as decentralization, security, immutability, smart contract, it is therefore expected to improve sustainable food supply chain management and food traceability. This paper applies a content-analysis based literature review in blockchain adoption within food supply chain. We propose four benefits. Blockchain can help to improve food traceability, information transparency, and recall efficiency; it can also be combined with Internet of things (IoT) to achieve better efficiency. We also propose five potential challenges, including lack of deeper understanding of blockchain, technology difficulties, raw data manipulation, difficulties of getting all stakeholders on board, and the deficiency of regulations.

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

Cited by 585 publications

References 76 publications

Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

A Content-Analysis Based Literature Review in Blockchain Adoption within Food Supply Chain

How Blockchain Can Transform the Financial Services Industry

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