Description
Blockchain 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
Table of Contents
Part 1: Blockchain in supply chain: Key issues and concepts1. Blockchain in supply chain: Recent developments and key issues2. Blockchain’s roles in meeting key supply chain objectives3. Amplifying the Value of blockchain in SC: Combining with other technologies
Part 2: Impacts on major industries and activities4. The Food and Beverage industry5. The Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industry6. The Finance Industry
Part 3: Opportunities, challenges, implications and the way forward7. Opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain in supply chain8. Policy, legal and ethical implications9. Discussion, Conclusion and Recommendations
