Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A Survey

Since Bitcoin's debut in 2008, blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency, has been gaining increasing scientific and industrial interest. Due to the technology's innate distributed and immutable features, the adoption of blockchains on supply chains is one of the most promising...

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Main Authors: Peter Gonczol, Panagiota Katsikouli, Lasse Herskind, Nicola Dragoni
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8952728/
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description Since Bitcoin's debut in 2008, blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency, has been gaining increasing scientific and industrial interest. Due to the technology's innate distributed and immutable features, the adoption of blockchains on supply chains is one of the most promising recent applications. In this survey, we review academic researches and implementations of distributed ledgers on supply chains. We present the current state of research on the subject and summarize the benefits and the challenges of the distributed organization and management of supply chains. Focusing on industrial practices and use cases, we discuss the technical characteristics and maturity of the various industrial projects. Our goal is to assess the applicability of blockchains in the supply chain domain and to provide a foundation for practitioners and researchers to direct their future projects towards improving the technology and its applications.
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spelling doaj.art-283fbccbb7054cba936e989bbb22e2b32022-12-21T22:22:41ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-018118561187110.1109/ACCESS.2020.29648808952728Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A SurveyPeter Gonczol0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2696-7936Panagiota Katsikouli1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4316-6054Lasse Herskind2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-6383Nicola Dragoni3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9575-2990DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, DenmarkDTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, DenmarkDTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, DenmarkDTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, DenmarkSince Bitcoin's debut in 2008, blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency, has been gaining increasing scientific and industrial interest. Due to the technology's innate distributed and immutable features, the adoption of blockchains on supply chains is one of the most promising recent applications. In this survey, we review academic researches and implementations of distributed ledgers on supply chains. We present the current state of research on the subject and summarize the benefits and the challenges of the distributed organization and management of supply chains. Focusing on industrial practices and use cases, we discuss the technical characteristics and maturity of the various industrial projects. Our goal is to assess the applicability of blockchains in the supply chain domain and to provide a foundation for practitioners and researchers to direct their future projects towards improving the technology and its applications.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8952728/Blockchaindistributed ledger technologyimplementations and use casessupply chains
spellingShingle Peter Gonczol
Panagiota Katsikouli
Lasse Herskind
Nicola Dragoni
Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A Survey
IEEE Access
Blockchain
distributed ledger technology
implementations and use cases
supply chains
title Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A Survey
title_full Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A Survey
title_fullStr Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A Survey
title_full_unstemmed Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A Survey
title_short Blockchain Implementations and Use Cases for Supply Chains-A Survey
title_sort blockchain implementations and use cases for supply chains a survey
topic Blockchain
distributed ledger technology
implementations and use cases
supply chains
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8952728/
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