Blockchain and Supply Chain Management
- 1st Edition - March 2, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Nir Kshetri
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 9 9 3 4 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 9 9 3 5 - 2
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Request a sales quoteBlockchain and Supply Chain Management combines discussions of blockchain and supply chains, linking technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, satellite imagery, and machine vision. The book examines blockchain’s basic concepts, relevant theories, and its roles in meeting key supply chain objectives. The book addresses problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration. The book is balanced between blockchain and supply chain application and theory, covering the latest technological, organizational and regulatory developments in blockchain from a supply chain perspective.
The book discusses the opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain in supply chain policy, along with legal and ethical implications. Supply chain management faces massive disruption with the dynamic changes in global trade, the impact of Covid-19, and technological innovation. Entire industries are also being transformed by blockchain, with some of the most promising applications in supply chain management.
- Provides theoretical and practical insights into both blockchain and supply chains
- Features numerous illustrative case studies, boxes, tables, and figures
- Examines blockchain's impacts on supply chains in four key industries: Food and beverage, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and finance
Scholars, graduate and post-graduate students, and researchers. Practitioners such as analysts, consultants, executives, engineers, and managers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Chapter 1. Blockchain in supply chain management: recent developments and key issues
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Blockchain as a promising tool for SCM
- 1.3. Definitions and explanations of the key terms
- 1.4. Concluding comments
- 1.5. The roadmap of this book
- Chapter 2. Blockchain's roles in meeting key supply chain objectives
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Supply chain objectives
- 2.3. The roles of blockchain in achieving various strategic supply chain objectives
- 2.4. Discussion and implications
- 2.5. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 3. Amplifying the value of blockchain in supply chains: combining with other technologies
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- 3.3. Remote sensing and satellite imagery
- 3.4. Internet of things
- 3.5. Analytical fingerprinting
- 3.6. Digital twin
- 3.7. Computer vision and machine vision
- 3.8. Optical scanning technologies such as quick response codes
- 3.9. Discussion and implications
- 3.10. Chapter summary and conclusion
- Chapter 4. Food and beverage industry supply chains
- 4.1. The current challenges in food and beverage supply chains
- 4.2. Blockchain’s potential to address various challenges in the food and beverage industry
- 4.3. IBM’s blockchain-based Food Trust: the widely used platform for food SCs
- 4.4. Cases of blockchain deployment in domestic FBSCs
- 4.5. Cases of blockchain deployment in cross-border FBSCs
- 4.6. Key insights drawn from the cases
- 4.7. Chapter summary and conclusion
- Chapter 5. Healthcare and pharmaceutical industry supply chains
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Fighting counterfeit and substandard products in a drug supply chain
- 5.3. Optimizing operational efficiency and reducing costs
- 5.4. Promoting transparency
- 5.5. Complying with regulatory requirements
- 5.6. Some representative cases
- 5.7. Discussion and implications
- 5.8. Chapter summary and conclusion
- Chapter 6. Supply chain finance and trade finance
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Supply chain finance and trade finance
- 6.3. Blockchain’s potential to address key challenges facing supply chain and trade finance
- 6.4. Some representative cases of blockchain solutions to address the supply chain and trade finance gaps
- 6.5. Standardization initiatives in trade finance
- 6.6. Discussion and implications
- 6.7. Concluding comments
- Chapter 7. Opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain in supply chains
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Key enablers
- 7.3. Major opportunities
- 7.4. Salient barriers
- 7.5. Limitations of the technology
- 7.6. Chapter summary and conclusion
- Chapter 8. Policy, legal, and ethical implications
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Regulatory and law enforcement issues
- 8.3. Legislative developments increasing the attractiveness of blockchain
- 8.4. International heterogeneity in regulatory regimes
- 8.5. Existing laws and implementation of blockchain
- 8.6. New laws related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- 8.7. ESG issues and blockchain implementation in supply chains
- 8.8. Companies’ response to ESG pressures
- 8.9. Chapter summary and conclusion
- Chapter 9. Discussion, conclusion, and recommendations
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Blockchain's attractiveness in big industries to solve significant problems
- 9.3. The future of blockchain in supply chains
- 9.4. Different levels of difficulties in ensuring tamperproof tracking
- 9.5. Recommendations to policymakers
- 9.6. Recommendations to companies
- 9.7. Future research implications
- 9.8. Final thought
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 2, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 262
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323899345
- eBook ISBN: 9780323899352
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Nir Kshetri
Nir Kshetri is Professor of Management at University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He is the author of 9 books covering such topics as big data, cloud computing, and cybersecurity, plus author of more than 150 journal articles. He has won several awards for his work, including IEEE IT Professional’s Most Popular Paper Award in 2019 and 2018, Outstanding Contribution in Authorships award in 2019, and the Blockchain Connect Conference’s Most Influential Blockchain Research Paper in 2019. His editorial roles include Computing Economics editor of Computer, IT Economics editor of IT Professional and Associate Editor of Electronic Commerce Research. Nir and his work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Scientific American, Fortune, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg TV, and CBS News.
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USARead Blockchain and Supply Chain Management on ScienceDirect