The digital transformation of manufacturing (a phenomenon also known as “Industry 4.0” or
“Smart Manufacturing”) is finding a growing interest both at practitioner and academic levels …

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze and classify research that has been conducted
on manufacturing reshoring, ie the decision to bring back to the home country production …

Abstract In current discussions, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ascribed great influence on
production processes. Research on AI has seen tremendous growth in recent years …

The purpose of this study is to identify how Procurement 4.0 and digital transformations are
related and how digital transformation impacts the intention to optimize the procurement …

Guest editorial technologies, but it is about the whole concept of how future customer
demands, resources and data are shared, owned, used, regenerated, exploited, organized …

Industry 4.0 offers massive potential for implementing sustainability, which is a growing
concern for global manufacturing industries. This paper investigates the impact of the …

Additive manufacturing has the potential to make a longstanding impact on the
manufacturing world and is a core element of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Additive …

We investigate the relationship between backshoring of production activities and digital
manufacturing technologies, also known as Industry 4.0 (I4. 0). We argue that I4. 0 supports …

Purpose–Twenty-five years ago IJPDLM published “Integrating the Supply Chain”(Stevens,
1989). The purpose of that original work was to examine the state-of-the-art in supply chain …

With the diffusion of information systems and new technologies for the real-time capturing of
data, especially in rapid technological and managerial innovation contexts such as the …