Blockchain Potential for Supply Chain Reconfiguration in Post COVID-19 Era

Marco Ardolino, Beatrice Marchi, Maciel Queiroz, Andrea Bacchetti, Simone Zanoni

2021

Abstract

The spread of the coronavirus has had a major impact on the global economy, highlighting the shortcomings and weaknesses of global supply chains. Major issues such as supply disruptions, shortages of raw materials and spare parts, restricted transport, and ineffective exchange of information between actors within the supply chain have resulted. The empirical evidence of these events is widely discussed in the literature, which has brought out the urgent need to rethink the configuration of customer-supplier relations at an overall level. One technology that is much discussed in the literature and potentially useful in supporting supply chain processes is the blockchain technology. Blockchain has been gaining attraction across different sectors, even if there are still few applications in supply chain management, most at an experimental level. The aim of this paper is to analyse the potential applications of blockchain to support supply chain processes, to fill the gaps highlighted during the Covid pandemic. Through the analysis of the literature, the authors aim to give a preliminary overview on the relationships between Covid-19 impacts and benefits achievable by the application of blockchain technology in the supply chain, for an effective supply chain reconfiguration in a post-covid era.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ardolino M., Marchi B., Queiroz M., Bacchetti A. and Zanoni S. (2021). Blockchain Potential for Supply Chain Reconfiguration in Post COVID-19 Era. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics - Volume 1: IN4PL, ISBN 978-989-758-535-7, pages 100-107. DOI: 10.5220/0010676300003062

in Bibtex Style

@conference{in4pl21,
author={Marco Ardolino and Beatrice Marchi and Maciel Queiroz and Andrea Bacchetti and Simone Zanoni},
title={Blockchain Potential for Supply Chain Reconfiguration in Post COVID-19 Era},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics - Volume 1: IN4PL,},
year={2021},
pages={100-107},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010676300003062},
isbn={978-989-758-535-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics - Volume 1: IN4PL,
TI - Blockchain Potential for Supply Chain Reconfiguration in Post COVID-19 Era
SN - 978-989-758-535-7
AU - Ardolino M.
AU - Marchi B.
AU - Queiroz M.
AU - Bacchetti A.
AU - Zanoni S.
PY - 2021
SP - 100
EP - 107
DO - 10.5220/0010676300003062