Original title: Blockchain Practices, Potentials, and Perspectives in Greening Supply Chains
A supply chainThe connected steps and organizations involved in making and delivering a product. is the path goods take from their sources to the people who buy them. This viewpoint paperA paper that discusses a topic and its issues or future directions rather than reporting a specific experiment. looks at how blockchainA way to keep records shared across multiple participants., a way to keep shared records, might support greener supply chains. It outlines possible uses as well as caveats. It also points to questions that researchers should investigate next.
Imagine a group of shops keeping a shared notebook of where their food came from. It can be hard to follow each item through many hands, and keeping the notebook does not by itself make the food production kinder to the environment. In this paper, the shared notebook stands for blockchain records, while the journey of the food stands for a supply chain. The paper considers where those records might help and what problems still need attention.
Companies and researchers looking to make supply chains greener need to weigh what blockchain might help them track against its drawbacks. This paper maps the main uses and issues, while showing that research on this topic is still at an early stage.
The abstract presents an overview and general research directions, not evidence that blockchain reduces environmental harm in practice. It does not specify particular use cases, explain the caveats in detail, or report measured outcomes.
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Blockchain Practices, Potentials, and Perspectives in Greening Supply Chains — Mahtab Kouhizadeh, Joseph Sarkis — Sustainability — doi:10.3390/su10103652
Abstract licence: CC BY
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