How blockchain improves the supply chain: case study alimentary supply chain

Casado‐Vara, Roberto; Prieto, Javier; Prieta, Fernando De la; Corchado, Juan M.

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2018.07.193

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“…Meanwhile, the supply chain, including blockchain architecture, had a decentralized architecture, and each member can write their transactions on this. Each layer sends data from its transactions to the blockchain communicating with each other with smart contract useful for buying and selling items …”

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“…Each wileyonlinelibrary.com/jsfa layer sends data from its transactions to the blockchain communicating with each other with smart contract useful for buying and selling items. 19…”

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“…Casado‐Vara et al . propose a new simulation model for agriculture tracing implementing blockchain and multi‐agent systems.…”

Section: Blockchain Scientific Simulations and Applicationsmentioning

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“…wileyonlinelibrary.com/jsfa Casado-Vara et al 19 propose a new simulation model for agriculture tracing implementing blockchain and multi-agent systems. Figure 4(a) shows the current agriculture supply chain approach as a linear model starting from manufacturers and imports to seller and food service in comparison with a decentralized supply chain structured on blockchain architecture and the multi-agent systems ( Fig.…”

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A review on blockchain applications in the agri‐food sector

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BACKGROUND Food security can benefit from the technology's transparency, relatively low transaction costs and instantaneous applications. A blockchain is a distributed database of records in the form of encrypted blocks, or a public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties and can be verified at any time in the future. Generally, the robust and decentralized functionality of the blockchain is used for global financial systems, but it can easily be expanded to contracts and operations such as tracking of the global supply chain. In the precision agriculture context, Information and Communications Technology can be further implemented with a blockchain infrastructure to enable new farm systems and e‐agriculture schemes. RESULTS The purpose of this review is to show a panorama of the scientific studies (enriched by a terms mapping analysis) on the use of blockchain in the agri‐food sector, from both an entirely computational and an applicative point of view. As evidenced by the network analysis, the reviewed studies mainly focused on software aspects (e.g. the architecture and smart contracts). However, some aspects regarding the different blockchain knots (computers always connected to the blockchain network) having the role to store and distribute an updated copy of each block in a food supply‐chain, result of crucial importance. CONCLUSION These technologies appear very promising and rich of great potential showing a good flexibility for applications in several sectors but still immature and hard to apply due to their complexity. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry

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“…Each wileyonlinelibrary.com/jsfa layer sends data from its transactions to the blockchain communicating with each other with smart contract useful for buying and selling items. 19…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Casado‐Vara et al . propose a new simulation model for agriculture tracing implementing blockchain and multi‐agent systems.…”

Section: Blockchain Scientific Simulations and Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Blockchain Scientific Simulations and Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A review on blockchain applications in the agri‐food sector

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“…The most widely discussed topic in terms of application of the BT in transportation is logistics; in fact, many papers have been presented in recent years, such as: [3,33,38,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. BTs are presented by many as disruptive for the way supply chains are managed.…”

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A Review of Blockchain-Based Systems in Transportation

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This paper presents a literature review about the application of blockchain-based systems in transportation. The main aim was to identify, through the implementation of a multi-step methodology: current research-trends, main gaps in the literature, and possible future challenges. First, a bibliometric analysis was carried out to obtain a broad overview of the topic of interest. Subsequently, the most influential contributions were analysed in depth, with reference to the following two areas: supply chain and logistics; road traffic management and smart cities. The most important result is that the blockchain technology is still in an early stage, but appears extremely promising, given its possible applications within multiple fields, such as food track and trace, regulatory compliance, smart vehicles' security, and supply-demand matching. Much effort is still necessary for reaching the maturation stage because several models have been theorized in recent years, but very few have been implemented within real contexts. Moreover, the link blockchain-sustainability was explored, showing that this technology could be the trigger for limiting food waste, reducing exhaust gas emissions, favouring correct urban development, and, in general, improving quality of life.

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