Technical State-of-the-Art of Supply Chain Visibility
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d’Auria, Andrea
Hofman, Wout
de Graaf, Erik
Breteler, Jeroen
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This article presents a literature study on the state-of-the-art of the technology adopted for Supply Chain Visibility (SCV) and identifies blockchain as the major player for innovation. The first section highlights the trade-off between immutability and confidentiality in distributed ledger technologies, and discusses the mismatch of interests between academic research and enterprise research and development. Then, three private blockchain platforms (Quorum, Hyperledger Fabric and Corda) are evaluated as solutions for confidentiality in shared databases. The third section examines the role of standards for logistics data. The paper concludes that blockchain is the number one technology contemplated for SCV both in academic discourse and in the private sector, however the former favors immutability and transparency while the latter favors confidentiality. By making this trade-off explicit and analyzing the different solutions offered by the main related technologies, this work contributes to a clearer identification of advantages and disadvantages of options currently available. Additionally, the role of standards is identified as a valuable topic for further research, and an open standard for SCV is deemed to be desirable to ensure interoperability between systems relying on different technology stacks.
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2021-06
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