Abstract
The more intricate and networked management of power supply chains and the expansion of digitised supply chains have made it important that distinct material data can be made both unique and traceable and also compatible with one another. This study has presented a multi-layer standardized coding method for power supply chain materials, based on the hash algorithm trying to increase the material identification, and cut down the redundancy and a view to strengthening the intelligent management of information. It combines a tree-like encoding system with cryptographic hashing to encode multiple forms of material into collision-resistant IDs in their various stages of distribution. In the first level, the attributes of materials are essentially assimilated in a standardized format. the second stratum includes the supply chain metadata including the source, batch, and quality; the final layer hashes data using a secure hash function such as secure hash algorithm (e.g., SHA-256) for data integrity and compactness. The presented method can also support fast indexing, reliable authentication and also the integration of data across platforms. In the real-world experiment, a power supply chain dataset shows that our data management and search mechanism improve data consistency, search speed, as well as the material traceability compared to traditional identification approaches. Postscript There is potential for future research to also include the application of the blockchain technology to incorporate artificial intelligence and analytics in improving the power supply chain system.