An important challenge for supply chain management is to ensure safe transportation of the fragile components. The proposed block chain based framework monitors and stores sensor reading of delicate items with high likelihood of breakage in real time and securely. These components are fitted with sensors to take shock, vibration, and other impact related data. Smart contract processes the gathered data and selectively keeps the data in the blockchain in a transparent, indefeasible and protected manner. This strengthens trust among the stakeholders, the manufacturers, logistics providers and customers. A web based retrieval system is developed and tested for the purposes of validating the proposed framework. It interacts with the blockchain to fetch related data hashes, retrieves the matching sensor data from IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), and presents it in a both on offline and an interactive interface. This proof study shows the feasibility of real time monitoring and data sharing of fragile goods without any loss of its integrity. Integration of blockchain technology not only improves the security and transparency of the data, but it also facilitates the most efficient detection of anomalies to make the most efficient decisions based on that data. It is shown that this approach can significantly improve the reliability of fragile goods handling in terms of reducing damage rates and creating more accountability towards the supply chain.

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Transforming Fragile Item Supply Chains: Decentralized Decision Support System Design by Leveraging Digital Twin Technologies and Block Chain

  • Veera Babu Ramakurthi,
  • Vijaya Kumar Manupati,
  • Ankit Kumar Rai,
  • Hasanul Fahmi

摘要

An important challenge for supply chain management is to ensure safe transportation of the fragile components. The proposed block chain based framework monitors and stores sensor reading of delicate items with high likelihood of breakage in real time and securely. These components are fitted with sensors to take shock, vibration, and other impact related data. Smart contract processes the gathered data and selectively keeps the data in the blockchain in a transparent, indefeasible and protected manner. This strengthens trust among the stakeholders, the manufacturers, logistics providers and customers. A web based retrieval system is developed and tested for the purposes of validating the proposed framework. It interacts with the blockchain to fetch related data hashes, retrieves the matching sensor data from IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), and presents it in a both on offline and an interactive interface. This proof study shows the feasibility of real time monitoring and data sharing of fragile goods without any loss of its integrity. Integration of blockchain technology not only improves the security and transparency of the data, but it also facilitates the most efficient detection of anomalies to make the most efficient decisions based on that data. It is shown that this approach can significantly improve the reliability of fragile goods handling in terms of reducing damage rates and creating more accountability towards the supply chain.