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Data Management in Supply Chain Using Blockchain: Challenges and a Case Study
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Supply chain management (SCM) is fundamental for gaining financial, environmental and social benefits in the supply chain industry. However, traditional SCM mechanisms usually suffer from a wide scope of issues such as lack of information sharing, long delays for data retrieval, and unreliability in product tracing. Recent advances in blockchain technology show great potential to tackle these issues due to its salient features including immutability, transparency, and decentralization. Although there are some proof-of-concept studies and surveys on blockchain-based SCM from the perspective of logistics, the underlying technical challenges are not clearly identified. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of potential opportunities, new requirements, and principles of designing blockchain-based SCM systems. We summarize and discuss four crucial technical challenges in terms of scalability, throughput, access control, data retrieval and review the promising solutions. Finally, a case study of designing blockchain-based food traceability system is reported to provide more insights on how to tackle these technical challenges in practice.
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- Authors
- Wu, H., Cao, J., Yang, Y., Tung, C. L., Jiang, S., Tang, B., Liu, Y., Wang, X., & Deng, Y.
- Affiliations
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- Alibaba Group (China) (CN)
- Venue
- 2019 28th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2019-07
- Pages
- 1-8
- ISSN
- 1095-2055 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2975103933
- Cited by
- 154
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 10
- FWCI
- 14.54
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Keywords
- blockchain, supply chain management, food traceability, scalability, throughput, access control, data retrieval, information sharing, decentralization (distributed systems), immutability
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