دانلود کتاب دیجیتالی شدن در مدیریت زنجیره تامین

In late 2022 and early 2023, Open AI unleashed their “ChatGPT” large language model, and in the six months since then and at the writing of this chapter, the development of its capabilities, power, and scope have grown truly exponentially. While this example is not explicitly related to supply chain management, the potential for generative AI, large language models, and other digitalization technology(ies) have immeasurable potential for supply chain management applications. In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 (I4.0), blockchain technology, increases in computing power, and a transition to cloud-based architecture combine to enable transitioning away from legacy data-sharing standards (e.g., electronic data interchange) and have opened up the ability for real-time sharing of bilateral data between supply chain partners, facilitating true real-time information sharing. The question then becomes, how do we navigate it? Questions such as these are not trivial when recent industry reports indicate that over 50% of companies surveyed do not yet have a plan or roadmap in place for their digital supply chain transformation,1 with recent estimates indicating that the size of the digital supply chain market, in 2020, was approximately $3.91 billion with forecasts indicating that it may exceed $13 billion by 2030.2 Compounding the issues relating to the scale, size, and overall expansiveness of the “digitized supply chain” is the scope of functional areas that supply chain management touches (e.g., sourcing and procurement, manufacturing and production, warehousing and outbound/return delivery of products and services), all of which is compounded by recent macroeconomic pressures as well as geopolitical tension (e.g., global conflicts, trade wars, sanctions and import tariffs/taxes, pandemics). The combination of these factors has led to the need for this book and likely much more work on this area. So, we offer the following compilation of material to explore the dynamics of digital supply chains from an academic perspective, highlighting various critical areas of applications and solutions to pressing challenges. Each chapter provides a different perspective of how digital technologies can and are transforming the supply chain and operations management. The book discusses a variety of digital technologies, from the IoT to artificial intelligence, and from blockchain technologies to autonomous mobile robots, utilizing real work examples and in-depth discussions of their advantages as well as drawbacks. The first chapter, after this introduction, focuses on the effect of digital transformation on supply chain relationships. The authors explain the changes that I4.0 technologies are bringing to the industry and specifically to supply chain management. The authors discuss both the advantages and disadvantages that such technologies provide for supply chain management and supply chain relationships. Further, the authors discuss the effect of information technologies on supply chain agility. This chapter provides a solid grounding of the key role that digitization will play in the high-tech supply chains of the future.