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Integrating Lean, Agile, Resilient and Green Supply Chain Management in Engineer-to-Order Contexts: Insights from Expert Interviews
No full textLa storiografia delle relazioni internazionali. Discutono Leopoldo Nuti, Federico Romero e Lorenza Sebesta
No full textSupply Chains and Business Models in the Covid-19 era: Insights from the luxury industry
No full textThis research deals with how luxury companies adapted their supply chains and business models to address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The luxury industry is different from other industries and has many peculiarities such as high profitability margins and great reliance on personal selling experience. On the one hand, luxury customers may not suffer, in the short term, from lower buying power, but on the other hand lockdowns and shop closures can hinder the direct contact to customers. Consequently, the luxury industry seems vulnerable to disruptions and is, therefore, an interesting field of investigation. However, little is known about how luxury companies have addressed the negative effects of the pandemic. As such, our research fills this gap by identifying the actions undertaken by the luxury sector to cope with the pandemic, while taking supply chain and business model perspectives. Our research starts with a literature background that specifies the main characteristics of luxury supply chains and business models. To gain insights into how luxury companies adjusted their operations and businesses to deal with the pandemic, we conduct 24 semi-structured interviews with national and international industry experts, luxury companies’ managers and consultants. We found that luxury companies, did not considerably change their supply chain structures, but to improve the coordination along the supply chain, they increasingly digitized their supply chain processes and adapted money flows with upstream and downstream supply chain partners to support them in overcoming liquidity issues. Regarding business models, luxury companies did not alter their initial value propositions, but increasingly leveraged the online channel to serve their customers, embarked more on vertical and horizontal relationships, and changed their profit formula, sometimes even by increasing their prices to compensate for the higher logistics costs due to home delivery
Industry 4.0 and supply chain process re-engineering: A coproduction study of materials management in construction
Full text linkPurpose: This paper contributes to the literature on supply chain process management by discussing how Industry 4.0 technologies can support process re-engineering in the context of the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discusses the impact of Industry 4.0 technologies through an exploratory case study focused on the materials management process, using a coproduction of research approach where the main findings are obtained through the involvement of internal and external process actors. Findings: The results show that the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies could radically improve process performance, better supporting the execution of activities, increasing the effectiveness of communication between actors and favoring data collection and sharing. These technologies, characterized by the level of risk connected to their implementation, need to be introduced in combination with new organizational mechanisms, which may be beneficial for several supply chain actors. Originality/value: Through the adoption of a research coproduction methodology, which is not common in the literature, this paper contributes to the ongoing discussion about how Industry 4.0 technologies contribute to process-centric supply chains, by discussing the benefits of these tools from the perspective of process actors
Exploring the New Service Development Process of Digital Services: Insights from Expert Interviews
No full textMulti-stakeholder technology acceptance: a preliminary systematic literature review on data-driven technologies for sustainability in the agri-food supply chain
Full text linkIn the last decades, companies have seen a transition toward a network structure, adapting their internal focus to the external
environment, thus moving from material flow improvement and cost reduction to the satisfaction of product customization. Such
phenomena are even amplified when considering extended supply chains. Furthermore, the increasing relevance of external pressure
belonging from sustainability challenges has led the supply chain to resort to better management of resources, among which data,
through the adoption of new and emerging technologies. Despite the several benefits these technologies imply their diffusion within
the supply chain has not followed the expectation. Existing literature already tried to cope with technology acceptance, defining which
are the main constructs, especially from an individual perspective. What is not yet clearly defined is what happens when enlarging the
boundaries to the supply chain perspective, namely considering multiple stakeholders together. Just, a few contributions tried to build
a comprehensive framework. The agri-food supply chain represents one of the major supply chains when considering this scenario.
Accordingly, in the last decades, this sector has seen an increase in the adoption of technologies based on data within the supply chain,
giving birth to the Agriculture 4.0 paradigm. This study aims to define by means of systematic literature review whether frameworks
or models exist to measure multi-stakeholder technology acceptance, and which are the drivers considered in the agri-food supply.
Moreover, this paper stresses the importance of keeping updated on the set barriers that must be considered when boundaries of analysis
change or evolve over time. The introduction of further actors can modify previous rules of the game and decision-making could not
always be a choice for some players when dealing with multiple stakeholder’s technology acceptance
A Literature-Based Exploration of Servitization in Engineer-to-Order Companies
No full textServitization allows manufacturing companies to enrich their value proposition with services. It enables them to differentiate their offers from competitors, while capitalizing more on digital technologies. Servitization practices such as maintenance services, training and advisory, or rental and leasing solutions are widespread among many sectors. In this paper, we focus on the ETO context. We explore the literature to capture how and why servitization has been adopted by ETO companies. Based on our findings, we build a theoretical framework that we partly validate through an analysis of secondary sources. We conclude the paper with possible future research directions
Supply chain antecedents of servitization: A study in ETO machinery companies
Full text linkNowadays, manufacturers are increasingly shifting towards Product Service Systems (PSS) by accommodating servitization. Whereas a fair body of research investigates the effect of servitization on the product supply chain, studies on the impact of the supply chain on the company's service offerings are scarce and reveal controversial results. In this paper, we aim to clarify the latter relationship by studying the impact of three supply chain features on servitization within three Engineer-To-Order (ETO) machinery Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). First, our results reveal that companies located downstream in the product supply chain exhibit higher servitization levels. Second, the level of customization, represented by the position of the Customer Order Decoupling Point (CODP) in the supply chain, and the company's servitization level seem to be unrelated. Whereas it is true that higher product customization, per se, enables companies to offer more services around the product, the operational challenges encountered because of higher customization levels can lead companies to deliberately reduce their menus of services to the customer. Third, higher levels of vertical integration support the provision of basic services because companies have more control on supplies required for services such as maintenance and repair. Companies with low levels of vertical integration cannot provide the speed and responsiveness required for basic services, but can still offer advances services, provided that they engage in strong collaboration with their suppliers. Thus, with this work, we highlight the extent to which product supply chains can support or inhibit the servitization endeavours of ETO companies
Digitalizing agri-food supply chains to achieve Sustainable Development Goals: A systematic literature review
No full textImproving the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) is of paramount importance, given the impact of AFSC on the survival of mankind and of the planet. Data analytics, and the digital technologies supporting collection and analysis of the (big) data produced within and outside AFSCs, represent potentially powerful tools to improve such sustainability. However, how these new technologies can support AFSCs in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations is still under-explored. This paper aims, through a systematic literature review, to provide an answer to such question. To this goal, 50 papers were analysed. Results suggest that digital technologies can support ASFCs in reaching SDGs by supporting real time monitoring, sharing of data across the supply chains, improving decision making by performing scenario analyses and by enabling automation of some activities. These contributions call for the building of a Decision Support System for AFSCs. Finally, directions for future research are presented
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