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SChain: towards the quest for redesigning supply-chain by augmenting Blockchain for end-to-end management

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The present-day supply chain exhibits multi-faceted concerns, e.g., product counterfeiting and lack of transparency and provenance support in the product delivery. Progressive Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) like Blockchain can transform supply chains’ information management model adaptively to address these concerns. However, a constructive exploration towards realizing a relevant implementation model and assisting designers and developers is still lacking. Thus, we present a Blockchain and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)-tailored conceptual smart supply chain model SChain, for end-to-end operation management. This three-tiered framework captures the interactions among the participating entities from multiple viewpoints, viz. horizontal and vertical. The Programmable-Logic (PL)-based transaction flows’ implementation facilitates choosing best-suited functionality for operation execution from both permissioned and permission-less perspectives, thereby offering the flexibility of context-based model selection and enhanced reusability. We also bring forth an illustrative use case of port supply chain concerning the model’s applicability and conclude the work by highlighting the research prospects.

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  1. Sidharth Quamara and Awadhesh Kumar Singh have contributed equally to this work.

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Quamara, S., Singh, A.K. SChain: towards the quest for redesigning supply-chain by augmenting Blockchain for end-to-end management. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 14, 2343–2354 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-022-00959-0

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