A Comprehensive Review and Open Issues on Supply Chain Management Models

The goal of SCM is to apply decisions, which end up with optimal organizational performance. Supply chain (SC) exists in service, manufacturing, and business organizations. Managing the reliability of processes and products in multi-stakeholder SC surroundings is a major challenge nowadays. As it provides protected control and traceability, trust, and immutability establishment among stakeholders with less-expensive solutions, blockchain has recently emerged as a most essential mechanism. This study critically evaluates 65 papers that discuss BCT in SCM, more specifically, an analysis of several performance measurements that are included in various papers is carried out. Additionally, a thorough analysis of the highest performance levels and various technical elements used in each task is conducted. Finally, the survey is extended with the identification of various research challenges, which may help the analysts to support improved future works on BCT in SCM. Chronological analysis is also performed.