Collaborative adoption of blockchain technology: A supply chain contract perspective

Supply Chain Design and Adoption of Indivisible Technology

In this paper, we develop a framework to analyze adoption of indivisible technologies by relatively small farms using a threshold diffusion model. It shows that different supply chains may emerge to enable the adoption of indivisible technologies. Independent technology dealers may buy the indivisible equipment and rent it to farmers, when the gain from adoption is not affected by scale or owne...

Digital Supply Chain Transformation toward Blockchain Integration

Digital supply chain integration is becoming increasingly dynamic. Access to customer demand needs to be shared effectively, and product and service deliveries must be tracked to provide visibility in the supply chain. Business process integration is based on standards and reference architectures, which should offer end-to-end integration of product data. Companies operating in supply chains es...

Supply Chain with Blockchain Showcase Rfid

Exploring Information and Communications Technology in Collaborative Supply Chain Planning

This thesis deals with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) in supply chain settings where partners collaborate on planning and control. Recent ICT developments offer numerous opportunities to handle information between partners in supply chains. Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) is a collaboration concept that is often associated with ICT. Howe...

Robust supply chain coordination modeling: A revenue management perspective

The revenue management concept and techniques are applied to model the coordination of supply chain elements. The fundamental premise of this approach is synchronization of a group of business entities consist-ing of a manufacturer and multiple suppliers to achieve an optimal supply chain capacity plans. The output of the supply chain can be various products and thus it is measured in terms of ...