About ten years ago, a bold vision with a prospect of largely autonomous factories of the
future with digitized processes, data-driven smart applications, and seamlessly integrated …

Purpose The evolution of technology from the most recent industrial age to the technology
era better known as Industry 4.0 resulted in greater demand for horizontal, vertical and end …

Interest in applying Industry 4.0 technologies in supply chain operations has increased
significantly due to the urgent need to combat climate change and achieve net-zero …

The present global competition is forcing companies to expand and connect their “internal
improvement processes” with “external customers and suppliers”. Ensuring success in the …

Purpose This paper addresses the emergence of strategic agility as adaptive capability to
face the need to adapt to a constantly changing environment. Special emphasis is paid to …

The twenty-first century has seen considerable implications towards social trends, as well as
advances in technology and industrial achievements. The fourth industrial revolution is the …

The exponentially growing literature on Industry 4.0 technologies and their implications for
supply chains exhibits valuable insights alongside considerable fragmentation. While prior …

Purpose The rapid advancement of digital technologies has fundamentally changed the
competitive dynamics of the logistics service industry and forced incumbent logistics service …

The development of digital technologies in all aspects of human life leads to increasing the
necessity for investigating them in the Supply Chain (SC) as the main channel to provide …