Direct digital manufacturing, or '3D printing'as it is more commonly known, offers a wealth of
opportunities for product and process innovation, and is often touted to 'revolutionize'today's …

In an environment where supply chains compete against supply chains, information sharing
among supply chain partners using information systems is a competitive tool. Supply chain …

Digital twin is a virtual entity that is linked to a real-world entity. Both the link and the virtual
representation can be realized in several different ways. However, the ambiguous meanings …

A chasm is growing between the advanced technologies available for improving
manufacturing operations and those effectively used in practice. The vision of Industry 4.0 is …

Direct digital manufacturing (DDM) is a combination of product modeling and manufacturing
technology that directly converts digital models to physical objects without the need for …

Supply chain product visibility may be defined to mean the capacity of the supply chain to
have a view of a product's lifecycle, from its conception, manufacturing, distribution, delivery …

This paper proposes a new concept in which a digital twin derived from a digital product
description will automatically perform assembly planning and orchestrate the production …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a research agenda for supply chain
planning (SCP) relevant for practice. Design/methodology/approach–The authors critically …

The fresh products supply chain still has room to improve and increase efficiency and even
become an intelligent supply chain by means of automating simple but valuable data flows …

Purpose–Despite the high operational and strategic potentials of radio frequency
identification (RFID) technology, very few studies have been conducted about its role as …