HOW THE SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRY IS NOW SET TO A MAJOR DISRUPTION WITH BLOCKCHAIN EMBRACEMENT?
Blockchain – A game changer for today’s supply chains: Nowadays, businesses start finding that the blockchain use cases seem to disrupt their functionalities at a greater pace. Especially, the product supply chains have been experiencing transformations gradually in terms of their operations with the application of advanced blockchain technologies. For instance, if we take a critical supply chain system, it usually takes days to complete a payment transaction that happens between either a product consumer and a vendor, or a producer and a supplier. Blockchain helps in addressing this cumbersome challenge by enabling the fast-forward transactions. Let us assume that a product/commodity/service has been launched into the market by the company that has manufactured it. In this case, its supply chain implies the entire life cycle of the product right from its flow from the producers/suppliers to the consumers. It primarily involves the following aspects: ·...