Abstract
Improving supply chain sustainability is an essential part of achieving the UN’s sustainable goals. Digitalization, such as blockchain technology, shows the potential to reshape supply chain management. Using distributed ledger technology, the blockchain platform provides a digital system and database to record the transactions along the supply chain. This decentralized database of transactions brings transparency, reliability, traceability, and efficiency to the supply chain management. This paper focuses on such novel blockchain-based supply chain management and its sustainability performances in the areas of environmental protection, social equity, and governance efficiency. Using a systematic literature review and two case studies, we evaluate whether the three sustainability indicators can be improved indirectly along supply chains based on blockchain technology. Our study shows that blockchain technology has the potential to improve supply chain sustainability performance, and we expect blockchain technology to rise in popularity in supply chain management.
Highlights
Chain Sustainability Performances.The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a general lack of visibility and data exchange with global supply chains [1]
We provide two case studies showing the contribution of blockchain technology to sustainability in the context of the food supply chain and logistics (the three pillars of sustainability follow the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG))
The blockchain platform provides a digital system and database to record the transactions along the supply chain
Summary
Chain Sustainability Performances.The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a general lack of visibility and data exchange with global supply chains [1]. Food Trust and Bumble Bee Foods), and healthcare and pharmaceutical supply chains (e.g., ProCredEx and MediLedger). There is a general consensus about the value of the blockchain to achieve a reliable supply chain system. Our project will focus on the blockchain-based supply chain and evaluate its unique contributions to the three pillars of sustainability—environmental protection, social equity, and governance efficiency. Traditional supply chains rely on manual processes, requiring a long time to discover the sources and routes of food with safety issues. Chains need to be verified by tracking the source (e.g., origin) to examine food contamination. In this process, it should be quick and accurate to identify food sources. Companies involve many suppliers and customers, which leads to overloading information regarding products, prices, workforces, documentation, etc
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