China’s Mega Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-112
Author(s):  
Marina Yue Zhang ◽  
Mark Dodgson ◽  
David M. Gann
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Intermediate Products ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
Manufacturing Facilities ◽  
Geographical Clusters

This chapter explains the development and significance of China’s mega supply chains and their position in the global division of labour. It explains the importance of modularity, standardization, and complementarity in supply chains. It analyses how efficiencies and resilience are achieved and balanced in supply chains and the importance of platforms, both geographical clusters, such as industrial bases in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Suzhou, and digital platforms, such as Alibaba and Pinduoduo. The chapter also argues that China’s mega supply chains have become regional hubs supplying intermediate products to manufacturing facilities in countries with lower labour costs. It discusses the extent to which China is progressing towards Industry 4.0, with smart supply chains, and how the country is responding to the challenges from growing global trade tensions.

Artificial Intelligence as an Emerging Technology in Global Trade

2022 ◽  
pp. 98-117
Author(s):  
Seema Garg ◽  
Navita Mahajan ◽  
Jayanta Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Smart Manufacturing ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Demand Prediction ◽  
Immense Potential ◽  
Chain Links

With Industry 4.0 and now 5.0 technologies, the entire globe is embracing these changes. Artificial intelligence-powered systems have immense potential to eliminate international geographical barriers and prove to influence global trade worldwide. The present study highlights how AI increases productivity, economic development, and provides international trade with new horizons. The global value chains, prediction of future trends like changes in consumer demand, risk management, supply chain links are some of the key applications of AI in the sector. AI empowers international trade negotiations to analyze economic trajectories of negotiating partners, adjustments of trade barriers at different rates and scenarios. The chapter will cover the support of AI to access global trade data, its response to diverse challenges, international expansions through digital platforms, support in translations, mechanism of demand prediction, automation of administration with increased efficiency and utility, smart manufacturing, barriers, and influences.

Applying Industry 4.0 technologies in the COVID–19 sustainable chains

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Acioli ◽  
Annibal Scavarda ◽  
Augusto Reis
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Supply Chain Performance ◽  
Chain Process ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Research

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is 1) to investigate the effects on the crucial Industry 4.0 technological innovations that interact between the real and virtual worlds and that are applied in the sustainable supply chain process; 2) to contribute to the identification of the opportunities, the challenges and the gaps that will support the new research study developments and 3) to analyze the impact of the Industry 4.0 technologies as facilitators of the sustainable supply chain performance in the midst of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).Design/methodology/approachThis research is performed through a bibliographic review in the electronic databases of the Emerald Insight, the Scopus and the Web of Science, considering the main scientific publications on the subject.FindingsThe bibliographic search results in 526 articles, followed by two sequential filters for deleting the duplicate articles (resulting in 487 articles) and for selecting the most relevant articles (resulting in 150 articles).Practical implicationsThis article identifies the opportunities and the challenges focused on the emerging Industry 4.0 theme. The opportunities can contribute to the sustainable performance of the supply chains and their territories. The Industry 4.0 can also generate challenges like the social inequalities related to the position of the man in the labor market by replacing the human workforce with the machines. Therefore, the man-machine relationship in the Industry 4.0 era is analyzed as a gap in the literature. Therefore, as a way to fill this gap, the authors of this article suggest the exploration of the research focused on the Society 5.0. Also known as “super-smart society,” this recent theme appeared in Japan in April 2016. According to Fukuda (2020), in addition to the focus on the technological development, the Society 5.0 also aims at the quality of life and the social challenge resolutions.Originality/valueThis article contributes to the analysis of the Industry 4.0 technologies as facilitators in the sustainable supply chain performance. It addresses the impacts of the Industry 4.0 technologies applied to the supply chains in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it analyzes the research gaps and limitations found in the literature. The result of this study can add value and stimulate new research studies related to the application of the Industry 4.0 technologies as facilitators in the supply chain sustainable performance. It can encourage the studies related to the COVID-19 impacts on the sustainable supply chains, and it can promote the research development on the relationship among the man, the machine and the labor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

scholarly journals Medium, Small, adna Medium Enterprises and Digital Platforms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
National Production ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Digitization has proven to be able to open up inclusiveness and electronification in Indonesia. MSMEs need to be continuously improved so that they can be integrated into national production systems or global supply chains.

scholarly journals Selecting a Green, Agile and Industry 4.0 Supplier With the Fuzzy-Swara-Bwm Integrated Method

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Ali Tas ◽  
Serap Akcan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Integrated Method ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Technological Opportunities

Abstract Businesses establish supply chains in order to continue their activities. Choosing the suppliers to take part in these supply chains poses many challenges in rapidly changing conditions. Environmental concerns in the public, competitive market structures, and developing technological opportunities affect the decision-making processes. Different criteria are taken into consideration instead of traditional criteria such as cost and service. In this study, green, agile, and Industry 4.0 dimensions and the criteria under these dimensions are defined. According to these, the problem of selecting the supplier that responds to the expectations of the markets and enables them to increase their competitiveness was discussed. Fuzzy SWARA and fuzzy BMW methods were applied in an integrated way to solve the supplier selection problem under these three dimensions. A real case study was also presented. In the study, the results obtained by creating different scenarios were compared and sensitivity analysis was made. The results obtained show that the hybrid method developed in this study is effective in supplier selection problems. As a result of the study, the most important evaluation dimension is "agile" and the most important criterion is "delivery speed".

Procurement 4.0: factors influencing the digitisation of procurement and supply chains

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 965-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Bienhaus ◽  
Abubaker Haddud
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Purpose While digitisation is a key driver of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0); organisations have different approaches to deal with this topic to get a clearer picture of the opportunities and challenges concerning the digital transformation. The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of digitisation on procurement and its role within the area of supply chain management. The research will also explore potential barriers to digitising procurement and supply chains and ways to overcome them. Finally, the significance of potential enabling technologies to the digitisation will also be examined. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approached utilising an online survey was used to collect the primary data for this study. Data were collected from 414 participants directly involved with procurement or related business functions and work for different organisations in different industries. The survey included eight items about the impact of digitisation on organisational performance in the area of procurement and supply chains; ten items related to key barriers to digitisation of organisations and ways to overcome them; and seven items about enabling technologies to leverage procurement procedures and processes digitisation. All of these items utilised the Likert five-point level of agreement scale. Findings The findings indicate that digitisation of procurement process can yield several benefits including: supporting daily business and administrative tasks, supporting complex decision-making processes, procurement will become more focussed on strategic decisions and activities, procurement will become a strategic interface to support organisational efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability, and supporting the creation of new business models, products, and services. The authors were also able to confirm that there are barriers to digitising procurement process and supply chains and such barriers found in existing procedures, processes, capacities, and capabilities. Finally, the significance of a number of enabling technologies to the digitisation process was revealed. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study of its kind with participants located world-wide. Industry 4.0 as a topic had been explored within different business areas and functions but very limited research specifically explored potential impact, barriers, and enabling technologies of procurement 4.0. The results can be beneficial for organisations already implemented Industry 4.0 or planning to do so. The study can also benefit academic scholars interested in the researched topic, business professionals, organisations within different sectors, and any other party interested in understanding more the concept of procurement 4.0.

Impact of Implementing Industry 4.0 in Colombia’s Supply Chains

2018 ◽  
pp. 704-713
Author(s):  
Jose Ignacio Rodriguez Molano ◽  
Stephanie Johanna García Moncada ◽  
Karol Daniela León Parra
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Industry 4.0
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