From Digitalization to Decentralization: A Blockchain‑Enabled Framework for End‑to‑End Supply Chain Collaboration
崔 宇 氏 (Yu Cui)
関西大学 社会学部 教授
Abstract
For more than forty years, the field of supply chain management (SCM) has journeyed from inward looking efficiency drives to the sophisticated, digitally orchestrated “smart” networks we celebrate today. Yet even as sensors, cloud platforms, and AI flourish, stubborn structural frictions, such as information asymmetry, power concentration, and entrenched mistrust, continue to block genuine end to end collaboration. Our prevailing digital platforms, although technologically advanced, remain centrally governed, leaving unresolved the twin challenges of data sovereignty and incentive alignment. In response, my colleagues and I have reframed supply chain integration through a genuinely decentralized lens, proposing a blockchain enabled supply chain collaboration framework that fuses the analytic power of digitalization with the trust by design qualities of distributed ledgers.
This framework enriches SCM scholarship by embedding decentralized trust into the mainstream digital transformation (DX) narrative and by offering clear architectural and governance principles for multi enterprise blockchain consortia. For practitioners, it functions as a pragmatic migration roadmap, one that safeguards existing ERP investments while releasing new reserves of network agility, risk responsiveness, and regulatory assurance. Looking ahead, robust empirical studies are needed to measure cross industry performance uplifts and to test token based incentive schemes capable of sustaining widespread partner engagement across complex ecosystems.