What Blockchain and Related Technologies to Support Manufacturing Supply Chain Traceability: Needs and Industry Perspectives requires
This publication explores the issues surrounding supply chain traceability, assessing the role blockchain and related technologies can play in its improvement. It targets all stakeholders in the U.S. national manufacturing supply chain, including businesses, regulatory agencies, standards bodies, researchers, and consumers, particularly those involved with operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS). The core finding is that traceability, including pedigree and provenance records, must be shared via multi-lateral ecosystems of supply chain participants to overcome the limitations of traditional bi-lateral message exchanges. These ecosystems can leverage blockchain technology to cryptographically ensure that traceability records are properly attributed, tamper-evident, and cannot be deleted, thereby mitigating risks from logistical disruptions, fraud, and sabotage. The document proposes an ecosystem-oriented perspective layered atop the existing 'per acquirer' view in supply chain risk management. This approach is necessary to enable multi-lateral information sharing and migrate from linear information flows. By establishing ecosystem-wide agreement on traceability requirements, organizations can mitigate semantic gaps and issues with trust transitivity. Achieving this requires linking physical objects to cyber records, cooperation across the supply chain to read and write traceability records, and sufficient incentives to motivate adoption and achieve a Minimum Viable Ecosystem (MVE). The publication analyzes several case studies and identifies key areas for future research, including identity, message content standards, barriers to entry, and ecosystem interoperability.
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- Section 1.1: This publication seeks to catalyze the understanding of traceability in manufacturing supply chains as an ecosystem-wide concern, and to recommend directions of future research in manufacturing supply chain traceability, enabled by blockchain and related technologies.
- Section 1.7: Traceability (including pedigree and provenance records) needs to be shared via ecosystems of supply chain participants to transcend the limitations of bi-lateral message exchange.
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