Volume 11, Number 16, October 2021

Military Supply Chain Management and Blockchain Development

  Authors

Syarifah Bahiyah Rahayu^{1, 2}, Sharmelen A/L Vasanthan³, Afiqah M. Azahari^{1, 2}, Joe Chai⁴, ¹National Defence University of Malaysia, Malaysia, ²Fac. of Defence Science & Technology National Defence University of Malaysia, Malaysia, ³Campus SophiaTech, France, ⁴Joe Chai, ProximaX Malaysia Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia

  Abstract

Blockchain has become a powerful technology and when it comes to supply chain management, blockchain has a lot to offer which could contribute to its development and make the supply chain more effective. The same benefit could be also gained when blockchain is incorporated in the Military Supply Chain Management (MSCM). Theaim of this paper is to develop and integrate blockchain in the MSCM. The developed MSCM is focusing on three (3) main blockchain components, which are transparency, integrity and secure communication. The methodology to develop the MSCM blockchain similar to UnicalCoin. The findings show that incorporating blockchain into the MSCM enables transparency, integrity and secure communication. Thus, blockchain may reduce fraud, improve communication between parties and made end-to-end tracking transparency in MSCM. Future work is to embed a smart contract feature to automate some processes in MSCM.

  Keywords

Blockchain, distributed ledger technology, smart contract, supply chain, nodes.