A Framework for Using Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain Management to Enhance Transparency, Traceability, and Trust

Supply chain management faces challenges like lack of visibility, inadequate information sharing, and stakeholder trust issues. Emerging blockchain technology has the potential to address these challenges through its decentralized, immutable, and transparent nature. This paper aims to develop a framework for leveraging blockchain to enhance transparency, traceability, and trust in supply chain operations. The design science methodology is utilized to construct the artefact drawing upon a literature review and semi-structured interviews with supply chain experts. The developed framework provides a strategic roadmap of five phases - scoping, technological assessment, use case identification, pilot testing, and diffusion. Within each phase, activities related to analysis, design, and implementation are elucidated along with key questions to guide deployment. The evaluation demonstrates the framework's utility for supply chain practitioners in navigating blockchain adoption. This research contributes a structured approach for organizations to transition towards blockchain-enabled supply chain systems.