Prospects of sustainable supply chain management for ICT procurement in Bangladesh perspective using block chain technology

Abstract

Now a day’s supply-chain management is the popular terms for major business revolution to get products to market faster at lower costs. The supply chain has traditionally defined as a one-way, integrated manufacturing process where in raw materials are converted into final products, and then delivered to customers. Under the traditional definition of supply chain, it includes only those activities associated with manufacturing, from raw material acquisition to final product delivery. Sustainable Supply chain is related to the sustainable procurement systems that is a key area in the work to promote Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). However, due to recent changing of market demand, technical requirements and environmental condition affecting manufacturing operations, increasing attention is given to backward integration, sourcing of raw materials and the developing new strategies for the supply chain, it is important to explore the utilization of ICT in the sustainability of SCM in the context ICT Procurement in Bangladesh. From this perspective, an extension of existing concept of supply chain is required. This study has been done to assess the scenario of practicing the modern Supply Chain procedure in procurement especially IT Goods procurement in the public and Private sector of Bangladesh. Respective people in charge of procurement in different organizations have interviewed and data gathered for 05 years on; knowledge about modern Supply Chain Management, number of ICT professionals in the organization, ICT budget, number of procurement packages completed through e-GP , number of IT professionals ,number of professionals trained on ICT procurement, tendering system for ICT procurement, dependency on few suppliers for ICT procurement, ICT procurement directly from Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), sending feedback to the OEM, knowledge about blockchain and some other things. After analyzing the gathered data it has been understood that all the parameters of modern supply chain is gradually increasing. This is worthy to mention that amount of ICT procurement and its budget allocation is sharply increasing. The eagerness on blockchain and the curve of its understanding is also up warding.