Integration of Blockchain Technology and Prioritization of Deployment Barriers in the Blood Supply Chain

Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene, Amir Karbassi Yazdi and Amir Mehdiabadi
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Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene: Department of Business Technologies and Entrepreneurship, Business Management Faculty, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio al. 11, 10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Amir Karbassi Yazdi: Industrial Management Department, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 1477893855, Iran
Amir Mehdiabadi: Industrial Management Department, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 1477893855, Iran

Logistics, 2022, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Background: This research aims to prioritize the blood supply hub for coping barriers of implementation blockchain (BC) in supply chain management (SCM). Nowadays, blood supply is a crucial matter that plays an essential role in people’s lives. Hence, tracing the supply of blood is very substantial. One of the ways for the SCM of blood supply is a blockchain system. It shows how all traces of the SCM stream can flow from raw material to receiving blood into end users. However, there are many barriers to the implementation of blockchain. None of the companies can design improvement projects to resolve these barriers because of a lack of rare resources, such as human resources (HR), budget, information, etc. Methods: Barriers are first extracted from previous studies and interviews with experts in this study. Then, these barriers are customized for this case study by the Delphi method. Then, these blood supply hubs are ranked by measurement alternatives and ranking according to the compromise solution (MARCOS) method. Since this method needs primary weight, the best–worst method (BWM) is applied to obtain this weight. R esult : Results have pointed out that business owners’ unwillingness was the highest priority among the nine barriers. Conclusions: Additionally, implementing blockchain for SCM of blood supply requires paying more attention to business owners’ unwillingness barriers and resolving them. Furthermore, hub 4 is faced with many problems in tackling barriers to implementing SCM blockchain.

Keywords: blood supply hub; supply chain management; blockchain; MARCOS method; best–worst method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L8 L80 L81 L86 L87 L9 L90 L91 L92 L93 L98 L99 M1 M10 M11 M16 M19 R4 R40 R41 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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