Digital Supply Chain Paradigm
M. Nishal, K. Ram Prasad, and R. Kumanan
Abstract
nity to compete and flourish in business. For organizations to maintain sustainability
and competitiveness at the global level in the corporation of digital technologies
has become inevitable and the fourth industrial revolution has changed the way
of communication and interact with their environment. The operational processes
involved in the production and delivery of goods and services to clients are taken
care of independently at the current organizational levels. The orthodox supply chain
has facilities in different geographical locations to assist in establishing and main-
taining logistics transportation connections within them. Supply chain management
is always evolving as a result of the quickening development and changes in many
markets and the economic, financial, social, and technological spheres. The supply
chain will never be static but continuous changes in shape, size, configuration, and
the way it is coordinated, controlled, and managed but never been static. The impact
of the industrial revolution and supply chain applications was accelerated that made a
transformation that is essential for the digital conversion of the organizations. In this
chapter, the key constituents of supply chain management are described and through
extended works of literature, the digital technology enablers are identified which
would enhance the supply chain constituents. An insight into value drivers with key
digitization technology for enhancing the supply chain management is discussed in
detail which would enable supply chain analysts and researchers to have a deeper
analysis of them in the context of the digitization of SCM.
Keywords ·Digitalization ·Digital supply chain ·
Industry 4.0 ·Value chain drivers
M. Nishal (B) ·
Department of Mechanical, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
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K. Ram Prasad
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