Distributed Ledger Technologies in Supply Chain Security Management: A Comprehensive Survey

Supply chains (SC) present performance bottlenecks that contribute to a high level of costs, infiltration product quality, and impact productivity. Examples such inhibitors include the bullwhip effect, new lines, inventory, restrictive data flows. These can force manufacturers source more raw materials increase production significantly. Also, flow in complex global SC network generally slows down movement goods services. The use distributed ledger technologies (DLT) management (SCM) demonstrates potentials reduce these through transparency, decentralization, optimizations management. promise enhance trustworthiness entities within SC, ensure accuracy data-driven operations, enable existing SCM processes migrate from linear fully circular economy. This article presents comprehensive review 111 articles published public domain efficacy DLT SC. It acts as roadmap for current future researchers who focus on security better understand integration digital DLT. We clustered using standard descriptors linked trustworthiness, namely, immutability, traceability, integrity.