Every industry has faced the tidal wave of 'digital' that has either re-shaped or dramatically altered their modus operandi. Supporting technologies in the management information systems arena have given rise to increased end to end visibility, real time access to information, and tightly controlled monitoring of deployed assets. In many industries it is straightforward to see the impact that digital technologies have had. Finance is a great example, with cash payments becoming increasingly less and less common, and digital currencies increasing in prominence. Yet how has this impacted supply chain management? In a discipline that spans multiple industries, continents, and companies, are there examples that we can point to that explain how digital supply chains have become? Which aspects of supply chain management were transformed by the digital tidal wave, and which functions are lagging behind? This is what this volume seeks to address.

Trends: what are the current trends in digital (or digitalization) supply chain management? Ideally, these trends will include all aspects of the supply chain. That is, how has the digital revolution impacted sourcing? What are the digital trends in the logistics, warehousing, and distribution industry? How has 'digital' impacted the operations and manufacturing industry?

Challenges: where are the diminishing returns to digital and its inclusion in the supply chain? Are there problems related to procurement and sourcing as the digital revolution takes hold? Are logistics challenges compounded in a digital world? Is manufacturing more streamlined or are there additional complexities that need to be addressed?

Solutions: Are the challenges all too overwhelming, or are there remedies that we can advance to cope with an ever increasingly digital world?

Contents:

• About the Editors


• Framing Digitalization and Supply Chain Management (Sengun Yeniyurt and Steven Carnovale)


• Digital Supply Chains: Industry 4.0 from a Supply Chain Relationship Perspective (Honey Zimmerman, George A Zsidisin, and Florian Schupp)


• Digitization and Supply Chain Risk Management (Hakan Yildiz)


• Blockchain for the Supply Chain: What Is It? Where Is It Being Used? (Ronald Lembke)


• Improving Supply Chain Resilience Through a Blockchain-Based System Architecture (Yu Cui, Prakash J Singh, and Huashan Li)


• Blockchain Adoption in Maritime Supply Chain: Another Catch-Up Game for African Maritime Industry? (Olugbenga Ayo Ojubanire, Hicham Sebti, and Sabrina Berbain)


• Hospital Operations and Supply Chain Optimization: Combining Lean Management Tools with Process Mining, AI and Digital Twin for Sterilization Processes (Karine Doan and Stefano Carrino)


• Autonomous Mobile Robots for Warehousing and Distribution Industry: A Step Towards Intralogistics 4.0 (Abhay K Grover and Muhammad H Ashraf)


• Index

Readership: Academics working in the fields of digital supply chain management, and the digitalization of supply chain management, supply chain scholars and those who are curious about digitization.

Key Features:

• The book includes insightful chapters authored by expert academics and practitioners. Hence, it brings a strong theoretical lens as well as a deep practical understanding to how digital transformation is impacting different aspects of the supply chain


• It also provides a detailed analysis of main trends, challenges as well as practical solutions regarding supply chain's digital transformation