Smarter supply chain: a literature review and practices

Abstract

Globalization and growing supply chain interconnectivity have led to greater complexity, uncertainty, and vulnerability in supply chains. Concequently, supply chains must become smarter to confront these challenges. The smarter supply chain has shown great promise; however, the business, policy, and technical challenges must be addressed before changes can be made. A literature review was performed to synthesize the studies on smarter supply chain management. The proior literature has been categoried into four aspect, including information sharing and supply-demand forecasting, smarter supply chain process integration and smarter decision-making, smarter supply chain risk management, and smarter supply chain collaboration. The successful practices and existing solutions for smarter supply chain management are also presented, which could serve as references for enterprises. The review concludes with a discussion of several research topics for futher work on smarter supply chain management.

Sustainable Waste Management for a City Multifloor Manufacturing Cluster: A Framework for Designing a Smart Supply Chain

“…SSCM means delivering/receiving the correct item in the correct volume at the correct time and the correct place for the correct price in the correct condition to the correct customer using information technologies for the intellectualization, digitalization, networking, and automation of the SSC [56][57][58][59]. The SSC is a modern and interconnected system, which expands from separated, regional, and single firm applications to the wide and systematic implementation of SCs.…”

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“…La cadena de suministro tradicional se caracteriza por flujos físicos que mueven productos, dinero e información entre todos los involucrados, desde la materia prima hasta la entrega a satisfacción de las solicitudes de un consumidor [8]. El concepto de cadena de suministro inteligente varía y aun no se encuentra un consenso académico sobre la definición, como por ejemplo en [5] proponen que la cadena de suministro inteligente es un sistema integrado construido dentro y entre empresas para combinar sistemas de gestión y tecnologías de información modernas para la intelectualización, digitalización, redes y automatización de la cadena de suministro. Una cadena de suministro inteligente gestiona sus propios con una amplia variedad de tecnologías innovadoras, por ejemplo vehículos aéreos no tripulados, computación en la nube e internet de cosas, entre otros [6].…”

“…Dichas tendencias se orientan a: implementación de análisis inteligente a partir de grandes volúmenes de datos, sistemas de software adaptativos al contexto y entorno, automatización de tareas y lógica de decisión e integración de información. Por su parte Zhao, Ji & Feng en [5] concluyen retos para la cadena de suministro generalizada, tales como: Reducción de costos, gestión de los riesgos, fiabilidad de clientes, adaptación a la globalización y visibilidad.…”

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“…They are applied to the tracking of information flows and the collection of data on products or services, capital, and other important elements in the supply chain to achieve information-driven endtoend processes that facilitate information sharing and decision analysis in an enterprise. [4] In its simplest form, an RFID system consists of a tag (attached to the product to be identified), an interrogator (i.e., reader), one or more antennae attached to the reader, and a computer (to control the reader and capture the data). [5] 1.…”