Mapping the potentials of blockchain in improving supply chain performance

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Table 1. List of selected papers and papers‘ category

No.	Authors	Year	Publication type	Category
1	Benedict Lutzenburg	2017	Thesis	Supply Chain Transparency
2	Kristoffer Francisco. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency
3	Jiri Chod. et al.	2019	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency
4	Fabian Sander. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability
5	Enbo Chen	2017	Thesis	Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability
6	Sudhir Pai. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency and Trust
7	Anders V. Hua. et al.	2016	Thesis	Supply Chain Transparency and Trust
8	Jonathan Biggs. et al.	2017	Thesis	Supply Chain Transparency and Trust
9	Frank Yiannas	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency
10	Amina Badzar	2016	Thesis	Supply Chain Transparency
11	Gavin Wood. et al.	2015	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency
12	Rajarshi Mitra	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency
13	John Liu. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency
14	Abeyratne, S.A. et al.	2016	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability
15	Mohamed Awwad. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability
16	Andre Jeppsson. et al.	2017	Thesis	Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability
17	Taehyun Ko. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency and Cost-efficiency
18	Debabrata Ghosh. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Transparency, Trust, and Traceability
19	Xia Jiang. et al.	2017	Journal	Supply Chain Trust
20	Haan Johng. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Trust
21	Kamanashis Biswas. et al.	2017	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
22	Martin Westerkamp. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
23	Reshma Kamath	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
24	Brian Abelseth	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
25	Toufic Hirbli	2017	Thesis	Supply Chain Traceability
26	Tarun Kumar Agrawal. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
27	Fredrik Jansson. et al.	2017	Thesis	Supply Chain Traceability
28	Miguel Pincheira Caro. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
29	Feng Tian	2018	Thesis	Supply Chain Traceability
30	Feng Tian	2016	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
31	Feng Tian	2017	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
32	Simone Figorilli. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
33	Juan F. Galvez. et al.	2018	Manuscript	Supply Chain Traceability
34	Provenance, Ltd	2016	Article	Supply Chain Traceability
35	RCS Global	2017	Article	Supply Chain Traceability
36	Jun Lin. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
37	Minjae Yoo. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
38	Melissa J. Rusinek. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
39	Kay Behnke. et al.	2018	Journal	Suppy Chain Traceability
40	Rita Azzi. et al.	2019	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
41	Martin Westerkamp. et al.	2019	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
42	Simon Pearson. et al.	2018	Journal	Suppy Chain Traceability
43	M. Creydt. et al.	2019	Journal	Supply Chain Traceability
44	Anna Ahlstrand	2018	Thesis	Supply Chain Sustainability
45	Sara Saberi. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability
46	Mahtab Kouhizadeh. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability
47	Nir Kshetri	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability
48	Dianhui Mao. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability
49	Miriam Denis Le Seve. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability
50	Marina Niforos. et al.	2017	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability
51	Sachin S. Kamble. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability
52	Bailu Fu. et al.	2018	Journal	Supply Chain Sustainability

Figure 1. Selection process of relevant articles.

Figure 2. Selected papers grouped by year of publication.

Figure 3. Map of studies on the topic of blockchain technology in supply chain.

Table 2. List of themes and codes identified from 52 selected papers on the topic of blockchain technology in supply chain

No	Theme	Code
1	Transparency	Distributed Ledger Immutable Data Decentralised Structure
2	Traceability	Record of Status Product Batches, QR Code, and RFID
3	Sustainability	Reduced Environmental Impact Fulfilled Social Responsibility Assurance of Human Rights
4	Trust	Shareholder Stakeholder
5	Cost-efficiency	Smart Contract Smart Property

Table 3. Blockchain usage in various global sectors

No	Sector	Blockchain usage
1	Health sector	Patient’s record or medical record. For example, a medical record of one patient in a hospital can be accessed by hospital B when the patient is admitted to hospital B in a short time, because it has been recorded on the blockchain network.
2	Food industry sector	Manufacturing processes & Internet of Things (IoT) device management. For example, IBM collaborated with food producers and distributors to decrease contamination in the global supply chain, so that if there was a case of food contamination, it would be very easy for the involved authorities to track the source of the contamination and conduct quick isolation.
3	Government sector	Voting, tax, and tender process.
4	Finance sector	Foreign exchange, remittance, and trading platforms.
5	Insurance sector	Ensure ownership, sales and underwriting, information authorization, and P2P insurance.
6	Retail sector	Capital asset management, identifying management, loyalty points, and letter of credit.
7	Supply chain sector	Improving transparency, preventing counterfeit products, inventory and pilferage tracking, reduced cost, etc.

Figure 4. Blockchain application in improving supply chain sustainability.

(Kouhizadeh & Sarkis, 2018)

Kouhizadeh, M., & Sarkis, J. (2018). Blockchain practices, potentials, and perspectives in greening supply chains. Sustainability (Switzerland), 10(10), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103652

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