Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Things Application in Supply Chain Operations Sustainability Management
Kamalendu Pal · Advances in logistics, operations, and management science book series · 2023
In recent decades, sustainability and green supply chain management have played essential roles in business operations. This chapter examines how the textile and apparel supply chains can comply with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, verifying the source of raw materials and maintaining visibility of merchandise products and related services while moving through the value-chain network is challenging. The internet of things (IoT) application can help textile and apparel supply chain operation managers observe, monitor, and track products and relevant business processes within their respective value chain networks. However, the IoT infrastructural components have a shortage of computational processing power and local saving capability, and these components are vulnerable to the privacy and security of collected data. This chapter presents blockchain technology with IoT-based infrastructural elements and service-oriented computing architecture as a solution for information processing for apparel supply chain management.