Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management for Society 5.0

Society 5.0 is a human-centered community where integrated systems operate throughout society to secure comfort in all aspects of life, from energy and medical care, to education, work, and leisure. Blockchain technologies enable the streamlining of supply chain processes and information sharing among various industries. This book presents recent research on the adaptation and implementation of Blockchain technologies in supply chain management in Society 5.0. It discusses different applications of blockchain, its important role in connecting information technology and artificial intelligence with human lives, the challenges, and the future of supply chain management for societal improvements.

Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan working as a chairperson - Research Centre/ Associate Professor, Thaigarajar School of Management, Madurai, Tamilnadu. He is an associate editor in Management Decision (Emerald) impact factor 4.9 and Environment, Development and Sustainability Journal - Springer with an impact factor of 3.2 and has more than 3000 research citations. Editing special issues in Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM), Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), Socio-Economic Planning Science (Elsevier). His publications are in IJPE, IJPR, PPC, IEEE TEM, JCP, RCR, IJAMT etc. Also, he is an editorial member in many reputed journals. One of his papers was awarded as Excellence Citation Award by Emerald Publisher Ltd. In addition, he is editing international books on Blockchain & Lean-Green & Society 4.0 in Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer publishers. He is a visiting faculty at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Active reviewer of more than thirty reputed international journals and organized two international conferences and workshops. Received best reviewer certificate from reputed journals. He supervised more than 10 undergraduate and 3 postgraduate and 3 PhD scholars. Edited many international conference proceedings in springer’s publisher. His research interest is Green Supply Chain Management; Sustainable Supply Chain Management; Multi-Criteria Decision Making; Third Party Logistic Provider; Sustainable Lean Manufacturing, Public Distribution System; Lean Six Sigma. He is having more than 10 years of research and teaching experience.

Dr. Atour TAGHIPOUR is a professor of Operations Management and the head of an international management master program at Normandy University in France (Master (II) of International Purchasing). He holds an HDR in management from Normandy University and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada. He received two masters’ degrees, one in Management, Logistics & Strategy and other in Industrial Engineering. He has more than ten years of experiences as a manager in automobile industries. He has published different books and many research papers in international journals. His areas of research are supply chain and operations management.

Dr. Vernika Agarwal is an Assistant Professor in operations management in Amity International Business School at the Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. She works in the fields of sustainable supply chain management, multi-criteria decision making, third party logistic provider, sustainable lean manufacturing, circular economy and sustainability, cross-disciplinary research in supply and operations management, optimization, reverse logistics, and empirical research. She earned her doctorate specializing in operations and supply chain management from the Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, India. She has published or presented several papers in reputed national and international journals.