Blockchain for Collaborative and Integrated Supply Chain
摘要
The supply chain is a sequence of processes that have ensured development in the insight of the logistics field, thanks to the methods and techniques adopted; the supply chain interacts with all stakeholders and deals with a considerable number of flows, financial, physical, or information. Blockchain technology is a pervasive technology that ensures transparency, validity, Immutability, and security of data. Tracking and tracing assets is one of the activities that preoccupies the attention of researchers and developers in the maritime scope, whether with the control of the supply chain or without. Tracking and tracing issue is a subject that has been treated in different forms with different technologies, in this chapter, we will have an overview of the Supply chain, the blockchain technology, the benefit of implementing Blockchain into the Supply chain, and the tracking and tracing operation as an application.