As one of the most prevailing retail channels, E-commerce has nowadays facilitated retailers to sell goods to customers worldwide and tremendously increased the supply chain efficiency by removing most intermediate links. The broaden business scope and accelerated goods circulation, nevertheless, have generally led to capital shortages for retailers, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Given the SMEs’ difficulty in acquiring capital from financial institutions such as banks, logistics finance (LF) has emerged as an alternative, which is the combination of logistics and financial service. However, the frequent order fulfillment and diversity of pledges in E-commerce hinder SMEs in meeting LF's financing requirements. Furthermore, the current LF relies more on large and reputable third-party logistics (3PLs) to alleviate financing risks, which in turn raises the entry threshold for other 3PLs. Hence, this paper has proposed a blockchain-enabled logistics finance execution platform (BcLFEP) as an integrated solution to facilitate LF for E-commerce retail. A cross-layered architecture is proposed to organize and manage involved resources, workflows and decisions based on the object-oriented methodology (OOM). A hybrid finite state machine-based smart contract (HFSM-SC) is designed to associate and coordinate with all kinds of agents for LF operations throughout its lifecycle. Moreover, blockchain is integrated with agent technology to construct a blockchain-enabled multi-agent system (BcMAS), providing a trusted runtime environment to more autonomously and efficiently execute smart contract. Finally, a case study is conducted to implement BcLFEP-enabled dynamic pledge management for verification and evaluation.

作为最流行的零售渠道之一，如今的电子商务已促进零售商向全球客户出售商品，并通过消除大多数中间环节极大地提高了供应链效率。但是，业务范围的扩大和商品流通的加速，通常导致零售商尤其是中小企业的资金短缺。鉴于中小企业很难从银行等金融机构获取资金，物流金融（LF）已成为一种替代方案，即物流与金融服务的结合。但是，电子商务中频繁的订单履行和承诺的多样性阻碍了中小企业满足LF的融资要求。此外，当前的融资平台更多地依赖大型且信誉良好的第三方物流（3PL）来减轻融资风险，从而提高了其他3PL的准入门槛。因此，本文提出了一种支持区块链的物流金融执行平台（BcLFEP）作为集成解决方案，以促进LF用于电子商务零售。提出了一种跨层体系结构，用于基于面向对象的方法（OOM）组织和管理所涉及的资源，工作流和决策。基于混合有限状态机的智能合约（HFSM-SC）旨在在其整个生命周期中与LF操作的各种代理相关联并进行协调。此外，区块链与代理技术集成在一起，以构建支持区块链的多代理系统（BcMAS），提供受信任的运行时环境，以更自主和高效地执行智能合约。最后，进行了一个案例研究，以实现支持BcLFEP的动态质押管理以进行验证和评估。