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

    Gabriella M. Hastig, ManMohan S. Sodhi · 2019 · Production and Operations Management · 904 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

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  6. Blockchain-Based Soybean Traceability in Agricultural Supply Chain

    Khaled Salah, Nishara Nizamuddin, Raja Jayaraman, et al. · 2019 · IEEE Access · 702 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

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

    Kay Behnke, Marijn Janssen · 2019 · International Journal of Information Management · 670 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

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  9. 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. · 415 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

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

    Ahmad Musamih, Khaled Salah, Raja Jayaraman, et al. · 2021 · IEEE Access · 401 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

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

    Thomas K. Dasaklis, Theodore G. Voutsinas, G. Tsoulfas, et al. · 2022 · Sustainability · 185 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

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  13. Blockchain based wine supply chain traceability system

    Kamanashis Biswas, Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Wee Lum Tan · 2017 · Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) · 174 citations

    The necessity of wine supply chain traceability system is inevitable due to increase in counterfeiting, adulteration, and use of excessive preservatives and hazardous chemicals. To overcome these issues, wine industry is in need of a traceability system which enables a consumer to verify the composition of each batch of wines from the grape growers to the retailers. However, most of the current systems are RFID and web based and thus it is possible to counterfeit stored information as required. This study proposes a blockchain based wine supply chain traceability system where every transaction is recorded as a block in the chain and is visible to the relevant participants. These blocks of in

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

    I. A. Omar, Mazin S. Debe, R. Jayaraman, et al. · 2022 · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 158 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

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

    Manal Hader, David Tchoffa, A. El Mhamedi, et al. · 2022 · J. Ind. Inf. Integr. · 130 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

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  17. 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. · 127 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

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  18. Applications of Blockchain to Improve Supply Chain Traceability

    Ju Myung Song, Jongwook Sung, Taeho Park · 2019 · Procedia Computer Science · 119 citations

    Blockchain has been emerged as a promising technology for a traceability system in industry. It can also be applied to many functions of a Supply Chain Management (SCM) system, such as logistics, quality assurance, inventory management, and forecasting. One of the most important functions of the SCM is to improve the transparency, traceability and auditability of materials flow throughout the supply chain from suppliers, manufacturing facilities, warehouses/distribution centers, to customers. This research especially focuses on the impact of blockchain on supply chain traceability through the current industry applications, and its future direction.

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  19. Supply chain traceability using blockchain

    Pedro Azevedo, Jorge Gomes, Mário Rom�ão · 2023 · Operations Management Research · 102 citations

    Abstract 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

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  20. Blockchain-Based Traceability for the Fishery Supply Chain

    Pratyush Kumar Patro, Raja Jayaraman, Khaled Salah, et al. · 2022 · IEEE Access · 96 citations

    Efficient traceability management is necessary for managing products in the fishery supply chain. Any negligence in products’ traceability can result in food fraud that may adversely affect the consumer’s health. Monitoring and tracking of the fishery supply chain operations can assist system stakeholders in identifying the origins and causes of product fraud and malpractice. Most of the existing systems and technologies used to manage the fishery supply chain processes fall short of providing traceability, accountability, transparency, reliability, trust, privacy, and security features. In this paper, we propose a private Ethereum blockchain-based solution to efficiently manage the fishery

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  21. High-Efficiency Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Traceability

    Hanqing Wu, Shan Jiang, Jian-Nong Cao · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 71 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

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  22. 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 · 46 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

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  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 · 41 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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