Overview of Smart Logistics and Blockchain Technologies

Rapid advancements in information communication technologies have significantly affected supply chains and organizations at large. Organizations using smart logistics derive benefits from its values within a supply chain system, such as improving the performance, sustainability, and competitiveness of an organization or supply chain system, or unit. This paper proposes that the implementation of smart logistics is not enough for companies to derive any significant value from it. The paper proposes a three- tiered solution centered on the application of blockchain technologies, including leanness and agility, digitization, connectivity, network, culture, people, and implementation as crucial toward quality and value processes and outcomes in smart logistics.