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Table 2

Supply chain operations challenges

Sr No	Challenge	Description of challenge	Source
1	Lack of trust among all stakeholders	Supply chain contains many stakeholders with a complex processing chain, so access of all real-time activities in the operations is major reason of trust among different stakeholders	Francisco and Swanson (2018)
2	Efficiency at each level cannot be tracked	In supply chain network, there are many operations like manufacturing, employee and inventory management, logistics, sales, etc. so tracking the efficiency of all the operations is difficult without any common platform	Huo (2012), Zheng et al. (2018)
3	Less transparency and productivity	In large supply chain networks because of more members involved and many operations, there is less transparency of all operations to all the stakeholders/members	Kshetri (2018)
4	Lack of digitalization	In traditional supply chain, there is no digital platform that connects all the supply chain organizations which enables difficulties like payment efficiency, transparency, management and control	Panicker et al. (2016)
5	Lack of integration at all levels	There should be integration platform that connects supplier, manufacturer, distributor, retailer and consumer which helps to ease the operations and real-time data tracking and securely storing of data	Pasi et al. (2020)
6	Lack of end-to-end visibility	Visibility of complete product lifecycle in supply chain network is very necessary else there might be many problems such as logistics challenges, delivery time tracking and consumer trusts	Rane and Thakker (2019)
7	Handling and maintaining legal contracts	Maintaining all kinds of contracts such as financial contracts, ownership certificate and investment contracts physically is difficult. Legal team can face challenges to send contracts to other stakeholders securely	Banerjee et al. (2018)

Sr No	Challenge	Description of challenge	Source
1	Lack of trust among all stakeholders	Supply chain contains many stakeholders with a complex processing chain, so access of all real-time activities in the operations is major reason of trust among different stakeholders	Francisco and Swanson (2018)
2	Efficiency at each level cannot be tracked	In supply chain network, there are many operations like manufacturing, employee and inventory management, logistics, sales, etc. so tracking the efficiency of all the operations is difficult without any common platform	Huo (2012), Zheng et al. (2018)
3	Less transparency and productivity	In large supply chain networks because of more members involved and many operations, there is less transparency of all operations to all the stakeholders/members	Kshetri (2018)
4	Lack of digitalization	In traditional supply chain, there is no digital platform that connects all the supply chain organizations which enables difficulties like payment efficiency, transparency, management and control	Panicker et al. (2016)
5	Lack of integration at all levels	There should be integration platform that connects supplier, manufacturer, distributor, retailer and consumer which helps to ease the operations and real-time data tracking and securely storing of data	Pasi et al. (2020)
6	Lack of end-to-end visibility	Visibility of complete product lifecycle in supply chain network is very necessary else there might be many problems such as logistics challenges, delivery time tracking and consumer trusts	Rane and Thakker (2019)
7	Handling and maintaining legal contracts	Maintaining all kinds of contracts such as financial contracts, ownership certificate and investment contracts physically is difficult. Legal team can face challenges to send contracts to other stakeholders securely	Banerjee et al. (2018)