TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Dietrich, Fabian
A1  - Louw, Louis
A1  - Palm, Daniel
T1  - Blockchain-based traceability architecture for mapping object-related supply chain events
JF  - Sensors
N2  - Supply chains have evolved into dynamic, interconnected supply networks, which increases the complexity of achieving end-to-end traceability of object flows and their experienced events. With its capability of ensuring a secure, transparent, and immutable environment without relying on a trusted third party, the emerging blockchain technology shows strong potential to enable end-to-end traceability in such complex multitiered supply networks. This paper aims to overcome the limitations of existing blockchain-based traceability architectures regarding their object-related event mapping ability, which involves mapping the creation and deletion of objects, their aggregation and disaggregation, transformation, and transaction, in one holistic architecture. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel ‘blueprint-based’ token concept, which allows clients to group tokens into different types, where tokens of the same type are non-fungible. Furthermore, blueprints can include minting conditions, which, for example, are necessary when mapping assembly processes. In addition, the token concept contains logic for reflecting all conducted object-related events in an integrated token history. Finally, for validation purposes, this article implements the architecture’s components in code and proves its applicability based on the Ethereum blockchain. As a result, the proposed blockchain-based traceability architecture covers all object-related supply chain events and proves its general-purpose end-to-end traceability capabilities of object flows.
KW  - blockchain
KW  - tokenisation
KW  - object traceability
KW  - EPCIS events
Y1  - 2023
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-41024
SN  - 1424-8220
SS  - 1424-8220
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031410
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031410
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
SP  - 1
EP  - 29
S1  - 29
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -