Smart contract-enabled consortium blockchains for the control of supply chain information distortion  

作　　者：Corban Allenbrand 

机构地区：[1]Department of Analytics,Operations Management and Information,the University of Kansas,Lawrence,KS,66049,United States

出　　处：《Blockchain(Research and Applications)》2023年第3期11-17,共7页区块链研究（英文）

摘　　要：Conflicts between supply chain members emerge because individual strategic actions may not be jointly optimal.Efforts to forecast consumer demand represent a source of conflict.The coordination of forecasts requires a powerful incentive alignment approach.This work proposes a smart contract equipped consortium blockchain system that creates an incentive structure that makes coordination with respect to forecasts economically appealing.Distortions of demand information due to uncoordinated forecasting are captured by a bullwhip measure that factors both forecast error and variance.Cooperation under the system is shown to help minimize this bullwhip measure,thus generating new outcomes for the participants that allow for a higher reward.Under a fixed payout structure,the system achieves credibility of continued cooperation,thus promoting an optimally coordinated equilibrium between the retailer and supplier.Blockchain technology represents a novel information system and consensus formation mechanism that can intermediate the behavior of a supply chain network.

关 键 词：Game theory BULLWHIP Information systems Supply chain coordination Demand forecasting Blockchain applications 

分 类 号：TP311[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论]