"Blockchain provides a secure ledger of transactions, programmable smart contracts, and real-time trustworthy visibility and insight into the supply chain process. For all the promises it offers to supply chain professionals, however, there's very little guidance available on how organizations should begin evaluating and using it. Integrating Blockchain into Supply Chain Management provides that much-needed step-by-step guidance. This is a very practical book of tools, frameworks and case studies. It will then guide them through essential processes for making informed, practical, timely, and business-savvy decisions for using blockchain as an effective supply chain tool. It includes a valuable benchmark survey of the state of play in blockchain in supply management and experiences from organizations such as Walmart, Tyson Foods and Coca Cola"--Back cover.

Pain of the chain -- Part I. Linking blockchain to supply networks. Blocked and loaded -- The power of hype -- Barriers to adopting blockchain -- Part II. Supply ecosystems. Networking supply chains -- Sustainable supply chain management -- Inventory management -- Demand management -- Supply management -- Transportation management -- Part III. What's the use case for blockchain? Learning from RFID -- Make the case -- Load up the bus -- Get the party started -- Enter the learning loop -- Off the chain.