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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Foreword / Don Tapscott -- Blockchain in global trade : revitalizing international commerce in the digital era / Soumak Chatterjee, Louisa Bai, Vikas Singla, Kshitish Balhotra, Neha Bhasin, Cara Engelbrecht -- Foxconn 4.0 : how blockchains can handle the world's most complicated supply chain / Nolan Bauerle -- Diamonds on the blockchain: building a global digital ledger for valuable assets / Anthony D. Williams -- Agriculture on the blockchain: sustainable solutions for food, farmers, and financing / Henry Kim, Marek Laskowski -- Food traceability on blockchain: Walmart's pork and mango pilots with IBM / Reshma Kamath -- Blockchain at our borders: US customs and border protection explores the promise of blockchain technology / Alan Cohn -- The emerging platform for manufacturing 4.0: major blockchain use cases and implementation challenges / Stefan Hopf -- Additive manufacturing and blockchain: creating efficient supply chains for Moog, Inc. / Vineet Narula, Prema Shrikrishna -- Belt and road blockchain consortium: building digital trust for cross-border trade / Prema Shrikrishna, Vineet Narula. |
| Summary |
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken precious lives and devastated the global economy. It has also revealed chinks in our supply chains. Not only have manufacturers found themselves scrambling unsuccessfully to find new suppliers when their Asian sources shut down, but the Western world has experienced across-the-board shortages of essential consumer packaged goods for the first time in decades. Blockchain technology has the potential to minimize these kinds of pandemic disruptions. In this book, some of the world's top experts show how blockchain--in combination with other innovations such as additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things--can address longstanding problems that make the business of getting goods to customers so slow and expensive, especially in crises. Today's supply chains are complex, as they move resources through trucks, planes, boats, and trains. Too many parties rely on a hodgepodge of documents and intermediaries to do business, which make the whereabouts and custody of goods unclear. That's why, in a pandemic, uninformed consumers might reasonably believe that toilet paper won't be available for many months. Enter blockchain--the Internet of Value. For the first time in human history, individuals and organizations can manage and trade their assets digitally peer to peer. In doing so, they will reinvent global commerce and how we exchange value. This will transform the best practices of operations, logistics, procurement and purchasing, transportation, customs and border control, trade finance and insurance, manufacturing, and inventory management.Global supply chains are ripe for disruption at every level and in every role. Supply Chain Revolution identifies what leaders should be doing now to prepare their organizations for the inevitable decentralized future. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial procurement.
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Electronic commerce.
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Electronic commerce |
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Industrial procurement |
| Added Author |
Tapscott, Don, 1947- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtRKgMXX4JQDDtX9TBByd
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tapscott, Don. Supply Chain Revolution : How Blockchain Technology Is Transforming the Global Flow of Assets. Chicago : Barlow Publishing, ©2020 9781988025537 |
| ISBN |
9781988025575 (electronic book) |
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1988025575 (electronic book) |
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9781988025537 |
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1988025532 |
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