Implementación de la tecnología Blockchain dentro de la cadena de suministro : caso aplicado a proceso de importación de una empresa de manufactura
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2023
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Arroyave Martínez, Daniel
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Universidad EAFIT
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The effects of globalization have made that supply chains (SC) became a major concern for most organizations. The number of actors involved within the SC make it an appealing target for cyber-attacks, corruption, and other threats that includes the flow of goods or information, therefore, there is an urgent need to start implementing actions that help to buffer the impact of such threats to keep a reliable SCs that guarantees a sustainable growth for all parties involved. Blockchain is one of the technologies that are part for the 4th industrial revolution, which its main purpose is to make sure the information flow among certain parties can be highly reliable by creating blocks that are immutable as soon as they are approved to keep transparency among all organizations. In this order of ideas, applying blockchain may be a useful technology to combat against threats that may harm the flow of information. The purpose of this paper is to create a blockchain proof of concept applied in an import-export process of a manufacturing firm to demonstrate the benefits this technology can provide for the safety, reliability, and transparency of the information flow from the creation of the purchase order up to its arrival to the designated location.