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Traceability in Textile and Clothing Supply Chain: Synthesizing the Potentials and Setting the Future Agenda
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9955-6273
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0871-1838
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-21046OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-21046DiVA, id: diva2:1317115
Available from: 2020-05-31 Created: 2019-05-21 Last updated: 2021-02-10
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1. Contribution to development of a secured traceability system for textile and clothing supply chain
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Contribution to development of a secured traceability system for textile and clothing supply chain
2019 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Secured traceability implies not only the ability to identify, capture, and share required information on product transformation throughout the supply chain (SC), but also the ability to ensure the security of the traceability data. Due to information asymmetry and lack of transparency, textile and clothing (T&C) industries often face challenges in implementing and maintaining sufficient traceability. The SC actors find it difficult to identify and track the suppliers and sub-suppliers involved. Additionally, the opaque and largely untraceable structure of the SC has enabled the easy intrusion of counterfeits. Hence, a secured traceability system is imperative to ensure that the required traceability data are captured and shared among SC actors, thereby allowing the tracking and tracing of the products in the SC. Further, a secured traceability system helps organizations in various decision-making processes and protects customers from counterfeits. This thesis contributes to the development of a secured traceability system for the T&C sector. It examines traceability at product and information levels, based on the system-of systems approach. At the product level, the thesis introduces a secured traceability tag that can be printed on the textile surface. The secured tag is hard to copy and is durable enough to withstand normal textile use, thus providing sufficient security besides product tagging for traceability implementation. At the information level, the thesis explores and classifies traceability data that can be shared at business-to-business and business-to customer levels for the implementation of secured traceability. Subsequently, a block chain-based traceability framework is proposed for the T&C supply chain to systematically capture and share data in the supply chain network. The proposed framework demonstrates the applicability of shared data infrastructure to traceability without a central authority and develops technology-based trust among the supply chain actors. It relies on no central authority, and has customized data privacy and accessibility rules, thus providing a unique opportunity, flexibility, and authority to all supply chain actors to trace their supply chains and create transparent and sustainable supply chain networks.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Borås: Högskolan i Borås, 2019
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Skrifter från Högskolan i Borås, ISSN 0280-381X ; 95
Keywords
Traceability, Textile and clothing, Supply chain, Secured tag, Blockchain
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Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Textiles and Fashion (General)
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urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-15957 (URN)978-91-88838-31-5 (ISBN)978-91-88838-32-2 (ISBN)
Public defence
2019-06-14, Vestindien B, Textile Fashion Center, Skaraborgvägen 3, Borås, 10:00 (English)
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Available from: 2019-05-21 Created: 2019-04-10 Last updated: 2021-01-26Bibliographically approved

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