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A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance

Guo, Lingling
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Chen, Jingjing
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Li, Shihan
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August 1, 2022
Digital Communications And Networks

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) refers to the financial service in which banks rely on core enterprises to manage the capital flow and logistics of upstream and downstream enterprises. SCF adopts a self-testing and closed-loop credit model to control funds and risks. The key factor in a successful SCF service is the deployment of SCF businessoriented information systems that allow businesses to form partnerships efficiently and expedite cash flows throughout the supply chain. Blockchain Technology (BCT), featuring decentralization, tamper-proofing, traceability, which is usually paired with the Internet of Things (IoT) in real-world contexts, has been widely adopted in the field of finance and is perfectly positioned to facilitate innovative collaborations among participants in supply chain networks. In this paper, we propose a BCT and IoT-based information management framework (named BC4Regu), which works as the regulatory to improve the information transparency in the business process of SCF. With BC4Regu, the operation cost of the whole supply chain can be significantly reduced through the coordination and integration of capital flow, information flow, logistics and trade flow in the supply chain. The contributions in this paper include: (1) proposing a novel information management framework which leverages Blockchain and IoT to solve the problem of information asymmetry in the trade of SCF; (2) proposing the technical design of BC4Regu, including the Blockchain infrastructure, distributed ledger-based integrated data flow service, and reshaped SCF process; and (3) applying BC4Regu to a group of scenarios and conducting theoretical analysis by introducing the principal-agent model to validate the BC4Regu.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.dcan.2022.03.020
Web of Science ID

WOS:000856099500001

Author(s)
Guo, Lingling
Chen, Jingjing
Li, Shihan
Li, Yafei
Lu, Jinzhi  
Date Issued

2022-08-01

Publisher

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
Digital Communications And Networks
Volume

8

Issue

4

Start page

576

End page

587

Subjects

Telecommunications

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blockchain

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supply chain finance

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information asymmetry

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information transparency

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internet of things

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technology

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SCI-STI-DK  
Available on Infoscience
October 10, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/191373
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