Blockchain Framework for Textile Supply Chain Management

Messiry, Magdi El; Elmessiry, Adel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94478-4_15

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“…Within the manufacturing industry, textile and clothing is one of the oldest sectors and a very complex area, as it includes a large number of subsectors that cover the whole manufacturing cycle, from raw materials and intermediate outcomes, to the elaboration of the final products. This makes traceability almost imposible [45].…”

Section: Textile Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Traceability of Ready-to-Wear Clothing through Blockchain Technology

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Traceability and monitoring of industrial processes are becoming more important to assure the value of final products. Blockchain technology emerged as part of a movement linked to criptocurrencies and the Internet of Things, providing nice-to-have features such as traceability, authenticity and security to sectors willing to use this technology. In the retail industry, blockchain offers users the possibility to monitor details about time and place of elaboration, the origin of raw materials, the quality of materials involved in the manufacturing processes, information on the people or companies that work on it, etc. It allows to control and monitor textile articles, from their production or importing initial steps, up to their acquisition by the end consumer, using the blockchain as a means of tracking and identification during the whole process. This technology can also be used by the apparel industry in general and, more specifically, for ready-to-wear clothing, for tracing suppliers and customers along the entire logistics chain. The goal of this paper is to introduce the more recent traceability schemes for the apparel industry together with the proposal of a framework for ready-to-wear clothing which allows to ensure the transparency in the supply chain, clothing authenticity, reliability and integrity, and validity of the retail final products, and of the elements that compose the whole supply chain. In order to illustrate the proposal, a case study on a women’s shirt from an apparel and fashion company, where a private and open blockchain is used for tracing the product, is included. Blockchain actors are proposed for each product stage.

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Section: Textile Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first one includes all matters related to logistics (operations, sales, receiving, collecting, storing, disseminating products), while the secondary activities include human resource management, technological development, accounting, planning, etc. [45].…”

Section: Textile Supply Chainmentioning

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“…Messiry et al proposed a complete blockchain-based framework for textile quality. They claimed that their proposed framework enabled near real-time performance, crosses chain information sharing with guaranteed authenticity and accuracy allowing quality defective batches to be identified in all systems as soon as they were detected in any system [13]. Si Chen et al presented a framework in which a blockchain can be used to manage supply chain quality, and discussed how to improve supply chain management by adopting blockchain technology [14].…”

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Permissioned Blockchain-Based Double-Layer Framework for Product Traceability System

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Blockchain-based product traceability systems are receiving increasing attention from both industry and academia. Existing systems make full use of the traceability and non-modification characteristics of blockchain technology and realize the openness and transparency of product traceability information in the entire supply chain. However, existing systems do not consider government regulation, cannot protect enterprise sensitive private data effectively, and have performance bottlenecks. To address these problems, this paper proposes a product traceability scheme based on the permissioned blockchain within a doublelayer framework. We introduce the double-layer framework and describe its advantages in detail. We also describe the smart contracts (chain code) in the double-layer framework. Finally, we test the performance of the proposed scheme through simulation experiments. The simulation results demonstrate the performance of nodes in the main layer, which is very important for consumers to obtain product traceability information, is optimized.

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“…Permissioned blockchains are prevalent at industry level and business as the concerns for attributes such as security, role assignment, and participant permissions are high. The example commonly associated with industry is the role of blockchain in supply chain management [61,81], where the participants include suppliers, logistics stakeholders, financial services, and so on. The key feature in this scenario is not all participants should, or have need, to access to all information within the blockchain.…”

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Realizing the Role of Permissioned Blockchains in a Systems Engineering Lifecycle

Joannou

Kalawsky

Martínez-García

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A key requirement for an integrated digital tool chain is secure access and control of data assets. Not all stakeholders will have the same access to or control over the flow of information, some will be able to input or change data whilst others will only be able to read the data. Simply providing secure access protocols is not sufficient because copied data can quickly become disassociated and modified from its original instantiation, leading to its reuse elsewhere or later in the lifecycle but in an inappropriate way. Therefore, data management mechanisms are required that capture information about the data along with any decisions or modifications it has undergone during the course of its life, thus providing complete traceability for later validation purposes. This undertaking is essential across the systems engineering lifecycle. This pursuit involves controlling who can access and modify data within the lifecycle. This paper describes a solution to this by the introduction of blockchain technology, a relatively new technology that allows digital information to be distributed but not copied, making it an immutable set of time-stamped data managed by a network of connected systems and services. Though blockchain technology is not commonly referred to when discussing Industry 4.0, the technology’s capabilities should add value when applied in a context of data management and security within the lifecycle of a product or services and in conjunction with digital twins, big data, and IoT. This paper describes how permissioned blockchains can be implemented within a systems engineering lifecycle, providing example architecture patterns showing how data provenance can be maintained throughout.

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Blockchain Framework for Textile Supply Chain Management

Cited by 43 publications

References 11 publications

Traceability of Ready-to-Wear Clothing through Blockchain Technology

Traceability of Ready-to-Wear Clothing through Blockchain Technology

Permissioned Blockchain-Based Double-Layer Framework for Product Traceability System

Realizing the Role of Permissioned Blockchains in a Systems Engineering Lifecycle

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