Blockchain-based Data Traceability Platform Architecture for Supply Chain Management
Yihang Wei
Abstract
With the rapid development of economic globalization, cooperation between countries, between enterprises, has become a key factor whether country and enterprises can make great economic progress. In these cooperation processes, it is necessary to trace the source of business data or log data for auditing and accountability. However, multi-party enterprises participating in cooperation often do not trust each other, and the separate accounting of the enterprises leads to isolated islands of information, which makes it difficult to trace the entire life cycle of the data. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a mechanism that can establish distributed trustworthiness among multiparty organizations that do not trust each other, and provide a tamper-resistant data storage mechanism to achieve credible traceability of data. This work proposes a data traceability platform architecture design plan for supply chain management based on the multi-disciplinary knowledge and technology of the Fabric Alliance chain architecture, perceptual identification technology, and cryptographic knowledge. At the end of the paper, the characteristics and shortcomings of data traceability of this scheme are evaluated.