Collaborative Serious Games for Awareness on Shared Resources in Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Part 1: Knowledge-Based SustainabilityInternational audienceToday manufacturing is a complex process often resulting in long brittle supply chains with considerable contributions to the global resource demand also posing a negative environmental impact (CO2 emissions, raw material supply, etc.). Reducing the waste of resources and being more sustainable are objectives incentivized by materials in short supply and customer requirements. Thus, the ability to share resources, innovate and to implement emergent ICT will play a key role for companies’ competitiveness and their sustainability. However, sharing resources puts high requirements on trust and gain sharing, amongst others. Although well known in supply chain management, the logistics sector is struggling to increase their shared resources. The authors found serious games (SG) to be a promising tool for awareness rising on shared resource. Existing supply chain games are analysed and their potential and weaknesses for the topic are examined, resulting in an outlook on the research needs in SGs for awareness on shared resources

Influence of Trust Factors on Shared Laboratory Resources in a Distributed Environment

“…Based on the discussed findings, it can be concluded that further investigation of the interaction between the different trust factors, the stakeholders and needs in collaboration can be carried out for a deeper understanding of the interactions as well as to understand different incentives affect the organisational and individual engagement in the shared resources. As stated in [1,9] simulations and games used in a workshop setting or as a multi-player game seem to be suitable tools for this purpose. Therefore, the next step will be to develop a serious multi-player game in which the different interactions and relations can be investigated.…”

“…Trust is a diffuse term, and there exist many different definitions [1,11]. Determinants of trust are elements, behaviour, and criteria or factors, which characterize trust in relationships [16].…”

“…During the last decades, new concepts on shared resources have been developed and successfully implemented within the manufacturing industry [1]. As a socio-economic ecosystem, resource sharing involves human and physical resources [2], as well as nonphysical resources.…”

“…The concept and practice of sharing undergoes a transition from its traditional role towards the so called sharing economy; referring to resources as well as collaborative consumption as described in [2,3,4,5,6,7], all having in common that either individuals or organisations put efforts in jointly utilizing existing resource(s). In this way they will gain benefits in terms of higher utilization of resources, cost benefits, but also through access to knowledge they don't have [1,2].…”

Business Model Development for a Dynamic Production Network Platform

“…With such a business model, the machines cannot be utilized to capacity, and the idle times of the machines must be included in the price of production [4]. Therefore, much effort has been put on developing concepts and tools that allow to share resources for matching of demands and supply [5], i.e. by offering underutilized capacity on platforms, also providing access to new customer groups [6].…”