The digitization in the wake of Industry 4.0 offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) the opportunity to improve processes and products [1]. In this regard, gapless traceability represents a crucial element but is ...

Recently, blockchain-based tokens have earned an important role in fields such as the art market or online gaming. First approaches exist, which adopt the potentials of blockchain tokens in supply chain management to ...

From the perspective of manufacturing companies, data handling is gaining more attention as it is becoming a strategic resource in digital ecosystems. Market forces such as rising amounts of product variants and decreasing ...