E-textiles: Power and resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Wearable Technology ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Smart Fabrics ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Do It Yourself

On the precipice of space exploration, smart fabrics, biochips and exoskeletons, the materiality of our wearable and body-centric future is a critical and political issue. If we are to develop technologies to take us to new places, we should be able to imagine radically different futures. The materials, tools and supply chains available to us seed the future we can build and are fuel for the possibilities we can imagine. Textile-based Do It Yourself (DIY) electronics have been suggested in Maker technology circles as an alternative path to electronics to broaden the diversity of those imagining our future, but they are still heavily divided by lines of gender, and hindered by supply chain availability. There are many textile-based technologies that have unique technical qualities to offer, but their development is stifled by systemic issues. This article suggests that e-textile technologies are a result of an entrenched system of power and act as a control method over the vision of the future rather than the suggested notion that they are an avenue of exploration. Using Erbu Kurbak’s concept of Lost Futures, and Elizabeth Ryan’s interoperation of wearable technology as immaterial labour, I make the case for e-textile practice being a trap and never equal contributor to the technological discourse.

Managing long supply chain networks: some emerging issues and challenges

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vipul Jain ◽  
Lyes Benyoucef
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
New Products ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Future Market ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supply Chain Networks ◽  
The Future

PurposeThe emergence of new manufacturing technologies, spurred by intense competition, will lead to dramatically new products and processes. New management systems, organizational structures, and decision‐making methods will also emerge as complements to new products and processes. This paper attempts to investigate technologies, systems and paradigms for the effective management of networked enterprise (supply chain networks), especially long supply chains. In doing so, the paper presents not only an exhaustive literature review to identify the complexities, gaps and challenges associated with long supply chains but also the emerging enabling technologies to support these gaps and challenges.Design/methodology/approachThe approach takes the form of an interview of industrials, researchers and a literature review.Findings“Competition in the future will not be between individual enterprises but between competing supply chains.” Business opportunities are captured by groups of enterprises in the same enterprise network. This is due to the global competition that forces enterprises to focus on their core competences.Practical implicationsThe paper presents a vision of the future technical issues relating to long supply chains and an insight into the future scientific and industrial advances required to meet future market and public demands.Originality/valueThis research work highlights the research issues and discusses the key enabling features, which will need to evolve and be perfected in industry in the future manufacturing networked enterprises and especially long manufacturing supply chains.

scholarly journals The future of supply chains

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 19-21
Author(s):  
Paul Marks
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
The Future

Droids, drones, and driverless technologies are fueling a supply chain revolution.

Channel Surfing

2011 ◽  
pp. 321-333
Author(s):  
Jonathan W. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Wearable Technology ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Channel Management ◽  
System Components ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The U.S

The chapter describes opportunities in channel management at multiple levels, including customer-focused channels providing capabilities in managing customer contacts, sales, and service, as well as procurement and distribution channels. Examples are offered from the U.S. Government’s Federal Supply Service, UPS, FedEx, Staples, and PBM Plastics. This chapter summarizes the channels and suggests some likely scenarios for the future, including electronic marketplaces with agents, the evolution of mobile technology, wearable technology, and location-based services. The ability to mix old and new systems and to accommodate legacy as well as recently introduced system components is crucial for success. Perhaps as importantly, the ability to rearrange and reconfigure supply chain channel elements is critical to designing an agile and flexible channel management solution.

scholarly journals Local food supply chain resilience to constitutional change: the Brexit effect

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Caroline Hendry ◽  
Mark Stevenson ◽  
Jill MacBryde ◽  
Peter Ball ◽  
Maysara Sayed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supply Chain Resilience ◽  
Building Resilience ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how local supply chains prepare for and respond to the threats and opportunities presented by constitutional change, thereby building resilience.Design/methodology/approachMultiple case study analysis of 14 firms in the food sector is presented in the context of the UK’s impending exit from the European Union (Brexit). Organisations studied include farmers, processors, retailers and non-government organisations (NGOs). Data from interviews and roundtable discussions has been interpreted using the dynamic capabilities perspective, covering the sensing, seizing, and transforming stages.FindingsThe data highlights the importance of both vertical and horizontal collaboration between supply chain actors as they seek to anticipate the impact of the disruption and influence the future shape of the constitution. There is also evidence to suggest firms in possession of dynamic capabilities can innovate to build resilience and enhance their competitive position. Characteristics of the disruption posed by constitutional change are identified and contrast with those of many other threats more typically described in the literature. As a result, the process of building resilience is different.Research limitations/implicationsThe study could be extended to include post-Brexit interviews to further understand the seizing and transforming stages whilst the impact of Brexit on actors that remain within the EU could also be considered.Practical implicationsPractitioners need to work together to influence the future shape of the constitution; and they need to reconfigure their operations and supply chains where necessary to become more resilient to the threat posed by Brexit, such as by reducing their reliance on EU funding streams and trade. The study also has policy implications.Originality/valueThe first study of supply chain resilience to constitutional change and a rare empirical study of resilience across multiple supply chain tiers.

scholarly journals Future Scenario Settings for Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Sardesai ◽  
Markus Stute ◽  
Rosanna Fornasiero ◽  
Dimitra Kalaitzi ◽  
Ana Cristina Barros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Future

AbstractTrends and future developments make it necessary to discuss the future, but it is their bundling that forms a future scenario. This chapter describes six identified and verified macro-scenarios for future industry specific settings, which are shaped by various socio-economic, political, technological and environmental future developments. The description of each macro-scenario allows conclusions to be drawn on supply chain developments such as circular aspects, trade impacts or necessary supply chain structures. Each future scenario is set in a conceptual framework that provides the context and meaning of possible futures and enables companies to prepare and adjust their strategies accordingly.

scholarly journals A Strategic Framework for Managing Failure in JIT Supply Chains

2011 ◽  
pp. 2206-2222
Author(s):  
Jaydeep Balakrishnan ◽  
Frances Bowen ◽  
Astrid L.H. Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Strategic Framework ◽  
Failure Risk ◽  
The Future

Supply chains can be disrupted at both local and global levels. Just-In-Time (JIT) companies should be particularly interested in managing supply chain failure risk as they often have very little inventory to buffer themselves when their upstream supply chain fails. We develop previous research further and present a strategic framework to manage supply chain failure in JIT supply chains. We identify two dimensions along which the risks of failure can be categorized: location and unpredictability. We go on to identify strategies which companies can use either before (proactive) or after (reactive) the failure to manage supply chain failure. We support our framework with examples of actual responses to supply chain failures in JIT companies. It is also hoped that our strategic framework will be validated empirically in the future leading to specific guidance for managers.

scholarly journals Resilience in supply chains - How additive manufacturing enables a resilient supply chain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Trauth ◽  
Johannes Schleifenbaum ◽  
Kristian Arntz ◽  
Gerret Lukas ◽  
Philipp Niemietz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Supply Chain Resilience ◽  
The Future ◽  
Resilient Supply Chain

Resilience - the ability to deal with crises and recover from their effects as quickly as possible - has been glorified since the COVID-19 pandemic as the new miracle cure against the effects for disruptions that occur in the future. Especially for Germany as an export-oriented location, the resilient design of supply chains is an economic success factor. However, a strategic anchoring of resilience thinking in management as well as the use of future-oriented technologies are necessary to harness the potentials of a robust, agile, adaptive and integrative supply chain. Additive manufacturing, due to its digital "DNA" and great design freedom, has the potential to more efficiently create or drive supply chain resilience. Redundancy due to inventories, for example, becomes obsolete due to the location-independent, flexible production of required products without long start-up times on the basis of computer-aided design files. Companies in a supply chain also do not have to bear the investment risk for additive manufacturing machines due to new, data-based business models. For many manufacturing companies and entrepreneurial alliances in the form of a supply chain, the question is therefore increasingly whether additive manufacturing technology can be increasingly used as an instrument to increase resilience along the supply chain in the future. The study "Resilience in Supply Chains - How Additive Manufacturing Enables a Resilient Supply Chain" sheds light on this economic and also ecologically valuable question and presents potential data-driven business models for the technology sector.

scholarly journals Policy Recommendations for Supporting Supply Chains with Horizontal Actions

2021 ◽  
pp. 265-290
Author(s):  
Ricardo Zimmermann ◽  
Ana Cristina Barros ◽  
Pedro Pinho Senna ◽  
Elena Pessot ◽  
Irene Marchiori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Future ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Training Professionals ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Training

AbstractThis chapter aims to identify the supply chain (SC) issues that can be considered “horizontal”, as they are cross–sectorial and faced by most companies operating both in production and distribution sectors, and to propose a set of policy recommendations that can support public and private organisations to promote and foster innovation and competitiveness of future European SCs. The definition of the Key Horizontal Issues (KHI) is the basis for developing 12 policy recommendations regarding infrastructure requirements, technological and organisational improvements and regulatory developments needed to set the stage for the European SCs for the future. Specifically, the policy recommendations entail assuring appropriate standards and legislation for European SCs; educating and training professionals for the future SCs; drafting of international agreements aiming at future European SCs; supporting and fostering incentives and funding schemes; promoting reference bodies for European SCs; and establishing infrastructure for fostering of future European SCs.

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