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Reap the benefits of blockchain for your supply chain

Integrating Blockchain Into Supply Chain Management book cover

If successfully integrated into existing supply chain ecosystems and practices, blockchain can transform your company. Key benefits include dispute resolution, fool-proof track and trace, operational and financial transparency and integration of IoT technology. Get two comprehensive, must-have manuals to successfully integrate blockchain into your supply chain processes.



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Blockchain and the Supply Chain highlights how blockchain can enable opportunities within the end-to-end supply chain. Authors Nick Vyas, Aljosja Beije and Bhaskar Krishnamachari look at the evolution of the network, systems and finance, as well as basics of blockchain.

Nick Vyas is the Executive Director and Co-founder of USC Marshall's Center for Global Supply Chain Management and Assistant Professor of Clinical Data Sciences & Operations. He teaches GSCM and Lean Six Sigma and global supply chain management to leaders from various industries at Cal Polytechnic University, Pomona. Aljosja Beije is co-founder of Blocklab and a PhD candidate at the Politecnico di Milano, where his research focuses on blockchain and supply chain management. Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Director of USC Viterbi Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor in the University of Southern California, LA.

Available for pre-order this summer:

Integrating Blockchain into Supply Chain Management, available for pre-order this August, provides step-by-step guidance on how organizations should begin evaluating and using this breakthrough technology. Authors Remko van Hoek, Brian Fugate, Marat Davletshin and Matthew Waller provide a practical book of tools, frameworks and case studies to help supply chain managers evaluate the value proposition that blockchain brings.

Remko van Hoek is Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He also is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). Brian Fugate is the Oren Harris Chair in Transportation, Chair of the Department of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansas, and MIT Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. Marat Davletshin was formerly an Operations Manager with Amazon and is currently at the University of Arkansas. Matthew A. Waller is the Dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, where he also serves as the Sam M. Walton Leadership Chair and a Professor of Supply Chain Management.

Stop by booth 628 at the Edge Annual Conference to browse these and other supply chain management titles published by Kogan Page. There will be advance copies of Integrating Blockchain into Supply Chain Management available for review.

For bulk sale discounts, review or inspection copies, contact Vanessa Rueda at info@koganpage.com.

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