Blockchain and the Supply Chain - Concepts, Strategies and Practical Applications

Learn how supply chains can be optimized using the latest research in blockchain technology and case studies of successful implementation and integration.

List of contents

Chapter - 01: Evolution of supply chain - How we got here; Chapter - 02: Supply chains in 2021 - Costly, fragile, and increasingly complex; Chapter - 03: Basics of blockchain; Chapter - 04: Internet of things, data analytics and other information technologies; Chapter - 05: Blockchain strategy - The why, what and how of blockchain; Chapter - 06: What supply chain management processes and metrics will be affected by blockchain?; Chapter - 07: Blockchain projects in practice - Case study; Chapter - 08: Blockchain use cases in supply chain; Chapter - 09: Economic impact and future outlook

About the author

Nick Vyas is the Executive Director and Co-founder of USC Marshall's Center for Global Supply Chain Management and Academic Director of the M.S. Global Supply Chain program. Based in Los Angeles, California, he previously managed global operations for Duty-Free International, Sears, Federated Stores, and Toys R Us.

Aljosja Beije is Director of Blocklab, a technology company that specializes in the application of emerging technologies in the logistics and energy domains and senior researcher at of Supply Chain Finance at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in Zwolle, The Netherlands.

Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Director of USC Viterbi Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California.

Product details

• Authors: Aljosja Beije, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Krishnamachari Bhaskar, Nick Vyas
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2022
• EAN: 9781398605237
• ISBN: 978-1-3986-0523-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, Corporate Finance, Business innovation, Purchasing & supply management, Applied computing, Distributed databases, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Logistics & Supply Chain, Distribution & warehousing management, Distribution and logistics management, Purchasing and supply management, Distributed ledger technology / blockchain