We tackle the long-standing problem ofdigitalisation of Supply Chains,
focusing on collaboration andsharing of information. By expanding and
generalising the notionof Digital Twins, we review, develop, and
conceptualise the(emerging) notion of Digital Twins of Supply Chains
(DTofSC).Whereas Digital Twins is now an active research area with
dataavailable from numerous industry projects, its application toSupply
Chains is just emerging as a cross discipline which, in turn,stems from
decades of maturing the notion of Digital SupplyChains. The concept is
still imprecise beyond key metaphors (e.g.,visibility, traceability,
control), but, as we conceptualise, theoverall vision is to create
technical and organisational mechanismsenabling any Supply Chain to be
monitored and controlled from,e.g., a simple dashboard screen – taking
parallels with the Internet.After a literature review on the
intersections between DigitalSupply Chains, Digital Twins, and emerging
digital technologies(e.g. Blockchain). From this review, we (1) propose
a synthesissystems architecture of DTofSC, (2) identify a key
requirementgap (that we term addressability), and (3) to ground
ourcontributions and in the absence of real-world use-cases inpractice,
we apply our conceptualised systems architecture tobattery recycling
based on feedback from a workshop.