Smart Contract in the Supply Chain – A Bibliometric Analysis and Review

Over the past 10 years, blockchain technology has been increasingly applied in various industrial and scientific fields, including in the supply chain. Blockchain applications in the supply chain field that are starting to develop are decentralized applications without involving third parties, known as smart contract. Smart contract applications are computer protocols designed to facilitate, verify, and automatically enforce negotiations and agreements between multiple parties who may not know each other yet. However, how to form smart contract applications and how successful the application has not been widely discussed. This paper will review 39 literatures regarding smart contract in the supply chain that have been selected based on the criteria of the publisher, year of publication, number of citations, and keywords. The result of this literature review is the grouping of smart contract applications in various sectors in the supply chain, the methodology used, and the output from previous research. In addition, the analysis of keywords and future research on those articles was carried out