Md Rokonuzzaman
Md is an OSCAR researcher and a PhD candidate at the Atlantic Technological University, Galway City Campus. Having an MPhil in Decision Support Systems and an MBA in Management, Rokonuzzaman's research interest focuses on information systems innovations and digital transformations in business and operations management.
Over the years technology has been a significant part of the supply chain. During the last decades, the supply chain has become more information-based focused with the object of enabling enhanced knowledge sharing, collaboration, transparency, and integration throughout the network. Building technological infrastructure for digital transformation has got immense attention and goes beyond individualistic organizational boundaries. It, in effect, has advanced a paradigm shift in the supply chain, which pushed it to replace the traditional trust-based concept of dealing with key supply chain partners. Especially, blockchain and related information and digital technology applications have extended digital transitions for higher efficiency and performance enhancement in the supply chain. These developments also stimulated the advancement of more integrated ecosystems of operations in the supply chain. Thus the way of doing business operations has changed and many companies have concentrated on leveraging the blockchain technology capacities.
This research intends to explore how blockchain technology in the supply chain appears with potential implications to network partners, explaining the phenomenon of action possibilities followed by different aspects of affordances. It also seeks to shed light on peer-level technology deployment and assimilation through bridging the digital affordance concepts for multilevel capacity empowerment across the supply chain infrastructure.