Blockchain and Supply Chain Integration: Needs, Benefits, Challenges and Future Perspective

BCT originally designed for crypto-currency has found great response in many other areas. The aim of the paper is summarizing the needs of BCT adoption in the supply chain; the benefits that it can bring to the agricultural sector; the difficulties and future prospective associated with BCT deployment. To achieve the research purpose, the article methodology goes through the SLR. The literature analysis distributes the key concepts and advances in the research on related topics and generates new knowledge [1;2;3]. Properly used empirical analysis holds a potential to design the research in a way to address important issues and provide transparent and reproducible answers [4]. The results showed that current agri-food supply chains deal with number of inefficiencies. There is a problem of "paper documents", as well as tracking the product that on the one hand increases the risk of counterfeiting and on the other hand makes difficult to call back falsified or harmful product from market in time. In many cases this causes people to get sick. In addition, there are often problems with reliability or even access to information. The paper demonstrated the capabilities of BCT to eliminate these problems and to modernize the agri-food supply chain. It provides a transparent system that collects, stores and transmits data in a secure way and that is maximally protected from any kind of fraud. At the same time, it accumulates the necessary information and delivers it to the interested party in a short notice. Consequently, it reduces the costs associated with identifying falsified or harmful products and removing them from sale.