Research on Innovation Management of Enterprise Supply Chain Digital Platform Based on Blockchain Technology

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Contribution/Summary: This paper proposes a blockchain-based enterprise supply chain development model that uses new management methodologies. The project intends to simplify supply chain digital platform innovation management services to reduce company risk by more than 60% and cut costs. The study suggests using digital platforms to manage company supply chains to decrease capital risk and assure sustainable growth.

Comments/Suggestions:

1. The core idea and contribution of the article should be conveyed in the title clearly. The existing title lacks a clear indication of the research challenge or the primary contribution, appearing to be a blend of various buzzwords.

  2. Abstract: Start by stating the research problem and its importance in a clear and succinct manner. The issue here is the difficulties businesses in international development encounter, and the significance is the requirement to lower costs and strengthen the capital chain using cutting-edge supply chain management and digital platforms.   3. The literature review needs to provide a clear and succinct description of the previous research that has been done in the topic. It should also highlight the voids and constraints that the current work intends to fill.

 4. In the introduction, the language that is used should be straightforward and succinct, and it should avoid using any needless technical phrases or jargon.

5. In order to make the introduction easier to read and more understandable, it ought to be broken up into paragraphs.

  6. The second section is fairly lengthy and has a lot of tough vocabulary, both of which can make it challenging for readers to comprehend. It is recommended that you use language that is clear and succinct in order to improve readability. This can be accomplished by condensing lengthy sentences into shorter ones and utilizing language that are easier to understand whenever and wherever possible.

7. In addition, given the breadth of subject matter covered in section 2, it would be beneficial to make use of subheadings to better organize the material and render it more comprehensible.   8.  Formal methods can be used to verify the correctness of smart contract code, which can help to prevent costly errors and security breaches. Therefore, it is important to discuss the use of formal methods in your paper.

9. For this purpose, the authors may include the following interesting references (and others):

a. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9970534

b. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8328737/authors#authors

10. The statistics that were presented should be analyzed further and discussed in greater depth in Section 3. The author needs to provide an explanation as to why certain trends are detected and what the implications of those trends are for the enterprise supply chain. In addition to this, the author needs to clarify the restrictions placed on the data as well as the implications for further study.

11. In addition, the third section ought to have transition sentences in order to bring the various ideas and sections together. This will make the section flow more easily, making it easier for the reader to follow the argument, and it will also strengthen the overall argument.

12. Although Section 4 lists a number of issues with blockchain technology, it does not back up its statements with specific evidence. The author should include specific examples of how blockchain technology has failed to satisfy the needs of businesses or how it has produced problems for them in order to strengthen the section's argument.

13. Section 4 also focuses on the issues with blockchain technology, but it doesn't offer any suggestions or ideas for how to solve them. The author should provide some applicable suggestions or ideas for how to enhance the use of blockchain technology in enterprise supply chain digital platform innovation management in order to make the section more helpful.

14. The conclusion section makes a passing reference to the fact that the study can serve as a springboard for further investigation into related topics, but it does not provide any particular guidelines or recommendations for research in the future.   15. The author could suggest some prospective directions for future research that build on the results and recommendations of the study in order to make this part more informative.

 

Can be improved.

 

Author Response

Contribution/Summary: This paper proposes a blockchain-based enterprise supply chain development model that uses new management methodologies. The project intends to simplify supply chain digital platform innovation management services to reduce company risk by more than 60% and cut costs. The study suggests using digital platforms to manage company supply chains to decrease capital risk and assure sustainable growth.

Comments/Suggestions:

1. The core idea and contribution of the article should be conveyed in the title clearly. The existing title lacks a clear indication of the research challenge or the primary contribution, appearing to be a blend of various buzzwords.

A: In view of the unclear title of the article, I have changed the title to: Research on innovative management of enterprise supply chain digital platform under blockchain technology.

2. Abstract: Start by stating the research problem and its importance in a clear and succinct manner. The issue here is the difficulties businesses in international development encounter, and the significance is the requirement to lower costs and strengthen the capital chain using cutting-edge supply chain management and digital platforms.

A: In view of the brief statement of the research problems and their importance in the abstract, I have revised it in the article: In view of the problems existing in the development of international market, such as high production cost, weak comprehensive competitiveness and imperfect capital chain, this paper proposes to apply blockchain technology to the digital platform of supply chain, and scientifically manage the digital platform to reduce the production cost of enterprises and improve the capital chain of enterprises.

3. The literature review needs to provide a clear and succinct description of the previous research that has been done in the topic. It should also highlight the voids and constraints that the current work intends to fill.

A: I have made a clear and concise description of the literature review. Although the above research on blockchain has promoted the development of blockchain theory, these scholars have not comprehensively studied the application of blockchain in enterprises, and the research on digital platform management of enterprise supply chain is also very scarce. In order to improve the research on innovative management of enterprise supply chain digital platform, it is necessary to further explore the enterprise supply chain digital platform with blockchain technology in order to realize innovative management of enterprise digital platform.
 4. In the introduction, the language that is used should be straightforward and succinct, and it should avoid using any needless technical phrases or jargon.
A: In view of the language problems in the introduction, I have revised the sentences in the article and deleted unnecessary language.
5. In order to make the introduction easier to read and more understandable, it ought to be broken up into paragraphs.

A: Regarding the division of the introduction, I have made a new division into five paragraphs on the basis of the original paragraph.

6. The second section is fairly lengthy and has a lot of tough vocabulary, both of which can make it challenging for readers to comprehend. It is recommended that you use language that is clear and succinct in order to improve readability. This can be accomplished by condensing lengthy sentences into shorter ones and utilizing language that are easier to understand whenever and wherever possible.
   A: In view of the language problem in the second part, I have revised the text and reduced the sentence.
   In addition, given the breadth of subject matter covered in section 2, it would be beneficial to make use of subheadings to better organize the material and render it more comprehensible.  

A: In view of the content in the second section, I have added several subheadings to clarify the content of the article.

7. Formal methods can be used to verify the correctness of smart contract code, which can help to prevent costly errors and security breaches. Therefore, it is important to discuss the use of formal methods in your paper.
   A: I have consulted the following materials for the problems of smart contracts, and supplemented this part in this paper, and applied formal methods to the whole process of smart contracts.
   For this purpose, the authors may include the following interesting references (and others):
   
   a. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9970534
   
   b. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8328737/authors#authors
   
   10. The statistics that were presented should be analyzed further and discussed in greater depth in Section 3. The author needs to provide an explanation as to why certain trends are detected and what the implications of those trends are for the enterprise supply chain. In addition to this, the author needs to clarify the restrictions placed on the data as well as the implications for further study.
   A: I have explained the problem of statistical data in the article and analyzed the impact of these trends on the supply chain of enterprises.
   11. In addition, the third section ought to have transition sentences in order to bring the various ideas and sections together. This will make the section flow more easily, making it easier for the reader to follow the argument, and it will also strengthen the overall argument.
   A: In view of the lack of transitional sentences, I have added in the article: under the background of globalization, the international financial market is constantly changing. In order to better adapt to the changing financial market, the enterprise supply chain model needs to keep pace with the times, so it is necessary to innovate the enterprise supply chain model. This paper will combine blockchain technology to conduct innovative research on enterprise supply chain model.
   12. Although Section 4 lists a number of issues with blockchain technology, it does not back up its statements with specific evidence. The author should include specific examples of how blockchain technology has failed to satisfy the needs of businesses or how it has produced problems for them in order to strengthen the section's argument.
   A: In view of some problems of blockchain technology, I have supplemented it in the article, explaining how blockchain technology brings problems to enterprises, and also giving examples to illustrate the problems existing in blockchain.
   13. Section 4 also focuses on the issues with blockchain technology, but it doesn't offer any suggestions or ideas for how to solve them. The author should provide some applicable suggestions or ideas for how to enhance the use of blockchain technology in enterprise supply chain digital platform innovation management in order to make the section more helpful.
   A: In view of the lack of suggestions or ideas on how to solve these problems in Section 4, I have supplemented the article and provided some suggestions.
   14. The conclusion section makes a passing reference to the fact that the study can serve as a springboard for further investigation into related topics, but it does not provide any particular guidelines or recommendations for research in the future.  

A: In view of the lack of suggestions for future research in the conclusion, I have added some suggestions for future research.

15. The author could suggest some prospective directions for future research that build on the results and recommendations of the study in order to make this part more informative.

A： In view of adding the research on the future to the conclusion, I have supplemented it in the article: in the future research, it is necessary to continuously innovate the management mode of enterprise supply chain digital platform, and at the same time, the new technology of blockchain development should be continuously applied to enterprise supply chain digital platform to realize the sustainable development of enterprise supply chain digital platform.

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors tried to make an analysis of using blockchain in supply chain management using digital platforms. This article can neither be considered a review nor a research article. This is an analysis of the technique in a domain. So if the authors can work on the following comments, then this paper can be considered for publication.

1. The presentation of the paper was good. But blockchain mainly focuses on data integrity, security and transparency with immutability. So authors are expected to have the analysis in the direction of the above-mentioned components

2. When the digital platform is considered for supply chain management, then the algorithm which is widely used and which algorithm is really suitable can be enhanced by the authors, which gives them the motivation for the work. The following paper can be cited to get more information regarding the blockchain various applications.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24844-2
Muhammad Shoaib, Shengzhong Zhang, Hassan Ali. A bibliometric study on
blockchain-based supply chain: a theme analysis, adopted methodologies, and future research agenda,  Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023.

[2] https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073433
Jing Huey Khor, Michail Sidorov, Seri Aathira Balqis Zulqarnain. Scalable
Lightweight Protocol for Interoperable Public Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Ownership Management, sensors, 2023.

[3] DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9274-8.ch013
A. Anitha, Haritha T. The Integration of Blockchain With IoT in Smart
Appliances: A Systematic Review, Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable
Development in Smart Cities, 2022.

[4] https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.036278
T. Haritha, A. Anitha. Asymmetric Consortium Blockchain and Homomorphically Polynomial-Based PIR for Secured Smart Parking Systems, Computers, Materials & Continua, 2023.

3. The architecture of the proposed method can be explained in a better manner.

4. The major contributions of the  proposed work can be explained neatly in the introduction

5. How the proposed work can be correlated with various formulas mentioned in Section 2 also is it necessary all the six core blockchain algorithms are needed for supply chain management? Provide the insight of the authors

6. On what basis Enterprise X and Enterprise Y  are taken can be justified clearly?

7. Explain the key performance of the digital business platform of the proposed work.

8. The need for an attack chart without comparative analysis of other algorithms seems to be missing from the flow of the paper.

 

 

English language editing is highly essential.

Author Response

The authors tried to make an analysis of using blockchain in supply chain management using digital platforms. This article can neither be considered a review nor a research article. This is an analysis of the technique in a domain. So if the authors can work on the following comments, then this paper can be considered for publication.

1. The presentation of the paper was good. But blockchain mainly focuses on data integrity, security and transparency with immutability. So authors are expected to have the analysis in the direction of the above-mentioned components

A: In view of the blockchain's main concern about data integrity, security and invariance, I have supplemented it in the article and made relevant analysis and explanation on these aspects.

2. When the digital platform is considered for supply chain management, then the algorithm which is widely used and which algorithm is really suitable can be enhanced by the authors, which gives them the motivation for the work. The following paper can be cited to get more information regarding the blockchain various applications.

A: In view of the above problems, I have supplemented the article, added references to the following documents, and explained the application of blockchain technology in combination with the documents, and pointed out the key algorithms that need to be strengthened.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24844-2
Muhammad Shoaib, Shengzhong Zhang, Hassan Ali. A bibliometric study on
blockchain-based supply chain: a theme analysis, adopted methodologies, and future research agenda,  Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023.

[2] https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073433
Jing Huey Khor, Michail Sidorov, Seri Aathira Balqis Zulqarnain. Scalable
Lightweight Protocol for Interoperable Public Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Ownership Management, sensors, 2023.

[3] DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9274-8.ch013
A. Anitha, Haritha T. The Integration of Blockchain With IoT in Smart
Appliances: A Systematic Review, Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable
Development in Smart Cities, 2022.

[4] https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.036278
T. Haritha, A. Anitha. Asymmetric Consortium Blockchain and Homomorphically Polynomial-Based PIR for Secured Smart Parking Systems, Computers, Materials & Continua, 2023.

3. The architecture of the proposed method can be explained in a better manner.

A: In view of the explanation of the method architecture, I have revised it in the article and re-explained the explanation of the method architecture.

4. The major contributions of the  proposed work can be explained neatly in the introduction

A: I have supplemented the main contribution of the proposal in the introduction.

5. How the proposed work can be correlated with various formulas mentioned in Section 2 also is it necessary all the six core blockchain algorithms are needed for supply chain management? Provide the insight of the authors

A: I have revised the text to strengthen the relationship between the suggested work and the formula. Supply chain management does not need to use six algorithms. This paper only briefly introduces the six algorithms, and this paper focuses on the Byzantine protocol algorithm.

6. On what basis Enterprise X and Enterprise Y  are taken can be justified clearly?

A: It is reasonable that the probability of a successful enterprise attack is within 1.

7. Explain the key performance of the digital business platform of the proposed work.

A: In view of the key performance of the digital platform, I have made a supplementary explanation at the end of the experimental part of the article, and analyzed the key performance of the digital platform and its impact on enterprises.

8. The need for an attack chart without comparative analysis of other algorithms seems to be missing from the flow of the paper.

A: In view of the lack of algorithm comparison in the graph, I have modified it in this paper, added the traditional algorithm and compared it with the algorithm in this paper.

Reviewer 3 Report

Comments are mentioned in the attached file. 

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Quality of English is moderate, specially the technically it needs to improve. 

Author Response

 Generally, this paper includes good exercises for development of Blockchain-based enterprise supply chain digital platform for innovation management sustainable. However, for me, the intellectual and creative contribution is not clear and can be improved. The suggestions are given below:

• The keywords of this manuscripts grab lots of nowadays' buzz words (Blockchain Algorithm, Innovation Management Analysis, Sustainable Development etc.) and hardly capture the main focus of this research.

A: I have revised the key words in the article: Enterprise Supply Chain；; Supply Chain Innovation Model。

• Technical English of the manuscript need to be revised carefully.

A: In view of the language problem, I have revised it in the article.

• Figures need to clear and well explained in the manuscript.

A: In view of the figures involved in the article, I have made a supplementary explanation in the article: the probability of successful attacks by enterprises has been reduced to 0.001, which shows that blockchain technology can effectively reduce the risk of malicious attacks and tampering of enterprise data and greatly improve the security of enterprise data. It is concluded that the blockchain method effectively reduces the risk of enterprises in the innovation management of supply chain digital platform by more than 60%, which shows that with the help of blockchain technology, the anti-risk ability of enterprise supply chain digital platform can be effectively improved, and the security of supply chain digital platform can be effectively improved.

• 4- Research gap and novelty is not highlighted and well presented. It seems that paper is just a review of previous research on the given keywords. Make the novelty of the paper clear and improve the literature review section by adding more recent literature as listed below. a. Integration of IoT and Blockchain for Smart and Secured Supply Chain Management: Case Studies of China. In Utilizing Blockchain Technologies in Manufacturing and Logistics Management.

1. Mudassar, R., Zailin, G., Jabir, M., Lei, Y., & Hao, W. (2019). Digital twin-based smart manufacturing system for project-based organizations: A conceptual framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering; CIE: Beijing, China.

• A: In view of the contents of the literature review section, I have added the above two documents to improve the shortcomings of literature research.
• 5- After reading through the whole manuscript, if the author improves the manuscript according to these comments, it can be feasible for publication.

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authorsy  considerd my comments and suggestions.

I suggest including some references related to the use of formal methods to the parapgraph added by authors.

Can be improved.

 

Author Response

The authorsy  considerd my comments and suggestions.

I suggest including some references related to the use of formal methods to the parapgraph added by authors.

Answer: The article you mentioned needs to introduce some relevant references in the method part, and now the 12th, 13th and 20th references have been added.

Reviewer 2 Report

The author's response to the comments are satisfied.

 

Moderate editing of English language required

Author Response

The author's response to the comments are satisfied.

Answer: Thank you for your comments

Reviewer 3 Report

Authors have revised the manuscript according to the given comments. Now it can be accepted. 

Quality of English is improved

Author Response

Authors have revised the manuscript according to the given comments. Now it can be accepted. 

Answer: Thank you for your comments