Identifying the Opportunities for Enhancing the Digital Readiness Level of the Supply Chain

Part 8: Digital and Smart Supply Chain ManagementInternational audienceAssessing the digital readiness of companies is becoming crucial to undertake a successful journey towards the digitalization of industry. Recently, the attention of both scholars and practitioners has turned to an extension of the assessment to the whole Supply Chain (SC). Given the importance of reaching a high level of integration and digital readiness in all the various actors that collaborate in the SC, some Digital Supply Chain (DSC) assessment models have been proposed mainly in the consulting field. However, to fully exploit the benefits of measuring the digital readiness of a SC, companies need also to be supported in the identification and prioritization of the most relevant opportunities triggered by the deployment of DSC projects. To this purpose, this paper presents a framework that links the potentials of DSC implementations with the SC operation processes, highlighting the most suitable technologies to deploy them. The framework has been conceived starting from a literature review and aims at providing a valuable tool to all the stakeholders involved in the transformation towards Digital Supply Chains

From the first industrial revolution to industry 4.0: Changes in innovative work behaviours and effects on the global economies

In this study, the development of innovative business behaviour on a company basis has been examined over the years. The first industrial revolution started with the use of steam engines in England. The most important effect of this process on business behaviour is the transition to mass production. To meet the product demands of the growing population, a lot of production was needed in a short time. In addition to the mentioned issue, the second industrial revolution started in the United States. The most important issue in this revolution is the production with the help of electrical energy. This contributed to increasing the production volume. On the other hand, computer and internet concepts have an important role in the third industrial revolution. This has enabled the trade volume to increase. In addition, robot technology came to the fore in the fourth industrial revolution. In this process, many stages in the production process are performed by machines instead of manpower. As can be seen from above, technological developments play an important role in the formation of industrial revolutions. This situation has very important effects on the business behaviour of companies