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BCSChain: Blockchain-Based Ceramic Supply Chain

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The ceramic supply chain is a complex network centered on ceramic products, encompassing business flow, logistics, information flow, and capital flow, and involving many participants and complex business processes. Currently, the key issues confronting the ceramic supply chain are lack of trust between different participants, financing difficulty for medium, small, and micro enterprises, inefficient transportation and distribution, and the inability to meet the diversified needs of customers. These pain points can be properly sloved by blockchain technology, with characteristics such as immutability and decentralization as well as the application of smart contracts. In this paper, a system architecture of Blockchain-Based Ceramic Supply Chain (BCSChain) is presented, and three applications of BCSChain in different scenarios are proposed, including logistics traceability, financing, and automatic trading. It is found that combing blockchain technology with ceramic supply chain can contribute to enable data sharing and information visualization, de-intermediation and data security, automated execution, as well as efficient collaboration.

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    Lingchao Kong, Huosheng Lv, Qiming Chen, Guoyou Lin, Shizhi Huang & Weitao Deng

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

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Kong, L. et al. (2022). BCSChain: Blockchain-Based Ceramic Supply Chain. In: Svetinovic, D., Zhang, Y., Luo, X., Huang, X., Chen, X. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1679. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8043-5_7

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