Achieving resilience in the supply chain by applying IoT technology

Al-Talib, Moayad; Melhem, Wasen Y.; Anosike, Anthony; Garza‐Reyes, Jose Arturo; Nadeem, Simon Peter; Kumar, Anil

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2020.02.231

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“…By introducing digital technologies into firm operations, visibility management of the whole product life cycle can be realized (Saxena & Al-Tamimi 2017 ; Ahmed et al, 2021 ). For instance, the IoT provides accurate and timely information through real-time perception of data (Al-Talib et al, 2020 ), supporting the development of a risk monitoring system and realizing real-time monitoring of the supply chain. As a result, data transparency and visual supervision are also enhanced.…”

Section: Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19

Cui

et al. 2022

Ann Oper Res

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly augmented the complexity of information, adding to the challenges that firms face in effectively processing and grasping accurate information. As a result, the production uncertainty of firms has been seriously intensified during the pandemic, disrupting the normal operation of firms and their supply chains. Digital technologies serve as salient tools that help firms to process and analyse information, consequently enhancing firm resilience in the face of supply chain disruptions. This study aims to examine how digital technologies affect firm resilience in the context of COVID-19 through the lens of information processing theory and a large-scale survey conducted among Chinese manufacturers. Specifically, our study evaluates the mediating effect of supply chain integration (internal integration, customer integration and supplier integration) and the moderating effect of information complexity. The results show that supply chain integration plays a mediating role in the effect of digital technologies on firm resilience, and the mediation effect is particularly significant for customer integration. Furthermore, digital technologies have a stronger impact on firm resilience when information complexity is high. The findings advance our understanding and recognition of the resilience implications of digital technologies and provide important managerial implications for improving firm resilience in the context of COVID-19.

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Section: Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19

Cui

et al. 2022

Ann Oper Res

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“…(Meriton & Graham, 2017). Extending on the same arguement, enterprises should deploy IoT to achieve resilience in the supply chain (Cui, 2015) in light of effectively responding to environmental changes such as loss of critical supplier, an act of terrorism or a fire accident in the production facility (Al-Talib et al, 2020).…”

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Disruptive Technologies for Achieving Supply Chain Resilience in COVID-19 Era: An Implementation Case Study of Satellite Imagery and Blockchain Technologies in Fish Supply Chain

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In supply chains where stakeholders belong to the economically disadvantaged segment and form an important part of the supply chain distribution, the complexities grow manifold. Fisheries in developing nations are one such sector where the complexity is not only due to the produce being perishable but also due to the livelihood dependence of others in the coastal regions that belong to the section of economically disadvantaged. This paper explains the contextual challenges of fish supply chain in a developing country and describes how integrating disruptive technologies can address those challenges. Through a positive deviance approach, we show how firms can help unorganized supply chains with economically disadvantaged suppliers by carefully redesigning the supply chain through the integration of satellite imagery and blockchain technology. With COVID-19 in the backdrop, we highlight how such technologies significantly improves the supply chain resilience and at the same time contributes to the income generating opportunities of poor fisherfolks in developing nations. Our study has important implications to both developing markets and food supply chain practitioners as this paper tackles issues such as perishability, demand-supply mismatch, unfair prices, and quality related data transparency in the entire value chain.

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“…In a comprehensive study by Petit et al (2011), a range of different disruptions have been categorised on a global scale, based on their definition and factors causing them, in order to provide the manufacturing companies with a tool to improve their resilience. More recently, digital concepts and capabilities offered through recent advances in Industry 4.0 (Herrera and Janczewski 2016;Ivanov and Dolgui 2020;Al-Talib et al 2020;Jagtap et al 2021), in particular discrete event simulation techniques and tools have been adopted in the implementation of SCR strategies (Cigolini et al 2014;Macdonald et al 2018;Ivanov 2018;Singh et al 2020). According to Al-Aomar et al (2015) a 'system simulation model is the computer mimicking of the complex, stochastic, and dynamic operation of a real-world system, including inputs, elements, logic, controls and outputs'.…”

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A simulation-based decision support system to improve the resilience of the food supply chain

Tsiamas

Rahimifard

2021

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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The rapid growth of population since 1950s has resulted in an enormous increase in demand for all kinds of manufactured goods. Manufacturing supply chains are becoming more sophisticated and complex, in particular within global food sector. At the same time, an increasing number of disruptions, ranging from those related to climate change and economic crisis as well as those associated with the socio-political turmoil and modern criminal activities such as cyber-attacks, are threatening the day-to-day operations. Although in the recent years, there have been significant advancements in supply chain management methods and tools, food manufacturers are still struggling to mitigate the possible impacts of these disruptions, leading to questions over the long-term resilience of their supply chains. This paper presents a novel framework for the improvement of food supply chain resilience and proposes a simulation-based decision support approach to aid the manufacturers to mitigate the impact of a range of unanticipated disruptions, specifically those related to climate change. The application of this framework has been demonstrated using activities of a dairy product manufacturer together with other main actors from its supply chain, namely the dairy farmers and wholesalers.

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Achieving resilience in the supply chain by applying IoT technology

Cited by 73 publications

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Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19

Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19

Disruptive Technologies for Achieving Supply Chain Resilience in COVID-19 Era: An Implementation Case Study of Satellite Imagery and Blockchain Technologies in Fish Supply Chain

A simulation-based decision support system to improve the resilience of the food supply chain

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