Digital Supply Chain Transformation toward Blockchain Integration

TLDR

Digital supply chain integration is becoming increasingly dynamic, requiring shared customer demand data and end‑to‑end product visibility, yet high integration costs and slow diffusion persist despite standards and cloud‑based models. The study investigates the requirements and functionalities needed for effective supply chain integration. The authors explain that blockchain‑based integration can disrupt and transform digital supply chains and networks.

Abstract

Digital supply chain integration is becoming \ increasingly dynamic. Access to customer demand \ needs to be shared effectively, and product and service \ deliveries must be tracked to provide visibility in the \ supply chain. Business process integration is based on \ standards and reference architectures, which should \ offer end-to-end integration of product data. \ Companies operating in supply chains establish \ process and data integration through the specialized \ intermediate companies, whose role is to establish \ interoperability by mapping and integrating companyspecific \ data for various organizations and systems. \ This has typically caused high integration costs, and \ diffusion is slow. This paper investigates the \ requirements and functionalities of supply chain \ integration. Cloud integration can be expected to offer \ a cost-effective business model for interoperable \ digital supply chains. We explain how supply chain \ integration through the blockchain technology can \ achieve disruptive transformation in digital supply \ chains and networks.