Blockchain Design for Digital Supply Chain Integration

: Korpela Kari, Novotny Petr, Dubovitskay Alevtina, Dahlberg Tomi, Lammi Mika, Hallikas Jukka

: Alexandre Dolgui, Alain Bernard, David Lemoine, Gregor von Cieminski, David Romero

: IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

: Cham

: 2021

: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

: Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2021, Nantes, France, September 5–9, 2021, Proceedings, Part IV

: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

: 633

: 90

: 98

: 978-3-030-85909-1

: 978-3-030-85910-7

: 1868-4238

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85910-7_10

The supply-chain process involves multiple actors and intermediary companies that need to coordinate but often lack interoperability and do not fully trust each other. Supply-chain digitalization, including the use of cloud services and domain-specific standards, enables significant improvements in efficiency throughout the entire process. We conduct a case study by collecting and analyzing data from a large business consortium represented by experts in the fields of industry, logistics, banking, and information and communications technology (ICT). Based on the case study’s outcomes, we propose the architecture of a blockchain-based system for use in a practical intermodal logistics project and discuss future research directions regarding it.