Applied College, Mechanical Engineering Technology, University of Hafr Al Batin, Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Jun;30(28):72041-72058. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-18311-7. Epub 2022 Jan 6.
With the advent of new technologies and globalization of business, supply chains have turned into indispensable tools for gaining competitive advantage. The application of new technologies like blockchain can benefit sustainable energy supply chains by improving chain and logistics operations in the areas of trust, transparency and accountability, cooperation, information sharing, financial exchanges, and supply chain integration. However, the efforts to adopt such technologies in supply chains tend to face many challenges and challenges, which can seriously threaten their success. Therefore, it is crucial to carefully examine the challenges to blockchain technology application. This research focuses on identifying the criteria and challenges to the application of blockchain in renewable energy supply chains and also ranks the identified challenges in terms of their capacity to disrupt the process. The applicability of the suggested structure is examined in a case study of the renewable energy supply chain of Iran. In this study, the challenges are evaluated and ranked by the hybrid developed methods by the integration of the concept of gray numbers into the gray stepwise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA-Gray) and the gray evaluation based on distance from average solution (EDAS-Gray). Another group of hybrid methods including the gray weighted sum method (WSM-Gray), the gray complex proportional assessment (COPRAS-Gray), and the gray technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS-Gray) is used to validate the results. The rankings obtained from all of these techniques show high degree of correlation. Among the identified challenges, "high investment cost" is found to be the most important challenge to the application of blockchain in sustainable energy supply chains.
随着新技术的出现和商业的全球化，供应链已成为获得竞争优势的不可或缺的工具。区块链等新技术的应用可以通过提高供应链和物流运营中的信任、透明度和问责制、合作、信息共享、金融交易和供应链整合等领域的效率，使可持续能源供应链受益。然而，在供应链中采用这些技术的努力往往面临许多挑战和障碍，这可能严重威胁到它们的成功。因此，仔细检查区块链技术应用的挑战至关重要。本研究专注于确定在可再生能源供应链中应用区块链的标准和挑战，并根据其对流程的干扰能力对确定的挑战进行排名。所提出结构的适用性通过将灰色数字概念纳入灰色层次分析法（SWARA-Gray）和基于平均解距离的灰色评价（EDAS-Gray）的组合中，在伊朗可再生能源供应链的案例研究中进行了检验。在本研究中，通过灰色加权和法（WSM-Gray）、灰色复合比例评估法（COPRAS-Gray）和灰色理想解逼近排序法（TOPSIS-Gray）等混合方法对挑战进行评估和排名。所有这些技术的排名都显示出高度的相关性。在所确定的挑战中，“高投资成本”被发现是区块链在可持续能源供应链中应用的最重要挑战。
