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Blockchain Impact on Supply Chain Performance

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Blockchain has become more relevant in the efficient and secure management of the supply chain, due to the grown importance that companies give to ensuring the transparency and traceability of all the movements made in each of the links of the supply chain. In this article, a study of the blockchain practices carried out by different companies from various sectors, come to infer that traceability, security, and cost reduction are the main objectives when companies decide to tackle projects of this nature. Another issue that can be deduced is that companies generally look for partners specialized in this sector to help them implement these projects, thus sharing both the knowledge generated and the development costs of the projects.

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  1. Área de Ingeniería de Organización. Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Carlos III. Avenida de La Universidad, 30. Leganés, 28911, Madrid, Spain

    Jesús Morcillo-Bellido

  2. Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Industrial. ETSII. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle de José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Lucía Romero Fernández-Cuartero

  3. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Y Empresariales. Departamento de Organización de Empresas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Senda del Rey, 11, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Jesús Morcillo-García

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Morcillo-Bellido, J., Romero Fernández-Cuartero, L., Morcillo-García, J. (2023). Blockchain Impact on Supply Chain Performance. In: Izquierdo, L.R., Santos, J.I., Lavios, J.J., Ahedo, V. (eds) Industry 4.0: The Power of Data. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29382-5_31

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