Digital Supply Chains for Industry 4.0 - Taxonomy of Approaches

Abstract

The area of research for this paper is the field of supply chain architecture, design and engineering, in a digital (new and non-existent supply chain) and integration context. To evaluate the present approaches in supply chain practice, the paper begins with a review of existing supply chain models, which cover the relevant aspects in the context of digital supply chain integration. The research areas reviewed in the paper are: supply chain architecture, supply chain design, supply chain engineering, and supply chain integration. There is a vast number of developed or proposed supply chain models focused on one or more specific research areas. The objective of this paper is to group the factors in recognisable clusters and to derive with a new set of principles for digital supply chain architecture, design and engineering.