Digital innovation and Industry 4.0 for global value chain resilience: Lessons learned and ways forward

Dilyard, John; Zhao, Shasha; You, Jacqueline Jing

doi:10.1002/tie.22229

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“…The ability to disseminate new knowledge, effectively train employees, develop cross-functional cooperation within the company, develop long-term inter-firm relationships with business partners, and learn from rivals are key. According to Dilyard et al [78], it is crucial to use digital technologies to make logistics operations more flexible and resilient to crises. This way of operating will also contribute to sustainability.…”

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Changes in Logistics Activities in Poland as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The main objective of this article is to identify the direction of change in logistical activities and their critical segments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in a country that is an important logistical hub of Europe. The specific objectives are to identify changes in logistical activities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to determine the dynamics of changes in business revenues and in quantitative parameters for total logistics services and their segments during the pandemic, to establish the relationship between the economic situation and parameters related to logistics services, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the method of purposive selection, Poland, which is well developed in logistics and aspires to be a crucial logistical hub of Europe, was selected for the study. The analysed period covered the years 2015–2021. The material sources were the literature on the subject and data from reports on individual logistics segments. Dynamic indicators with a fixed and variable base, coefficient of variation and Kendall’s tau correlation coefficient were used for analysis and presentation. It was found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated changes in logistics activities. These changes included digitalisation, the development of the e-commerce market, multi-channel sales and the development of these services, and the introduction of automation and artificial intelligence. In all activities, 2020 was the most challenging year, but there was generally a reduction in revenue growth and, less often, stagnation. Logistics companies gained in the second year of the pandemic (2021) when implemented solutions generated record revenues. Among the winning segments were logistics services in general, especially sea freight forwarding, warehousing services, courier services related to e-commerce, and a lesser extent, freight transport. Losses were incurred in the segment related to passenger transport. COVID-19 became a positive catalyst for change. The logistics industry ultimately benefited from the pandemic. Additionally, due to the pandemic, logistics operations have had greater sustainability, contributing to resource conservation and environmental protection.

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“…They have a very big impact on radical and rapid changes in the technological processes used by a particular organization. To face digital transformation by organizations in the direction of Industry 4.0, it needs to deal with many very important issues like: flexibility and personalization; networking and reduction of barriers; low price; local production fragmentation of value chain; smart good and services; fragmentation of the value chain; integration of production systems, globalization and decentralization of production [40][41][42][43].…”

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Influence of Industry 4.0 Projects on Business Operations: Literature and Empirical Pilot Studies Based on Case Studies in Poland

Gajdzik

Wolniak

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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For the past decade, Industry 4.0 has become the basis for building competitive advantage for business operations. The key technologies of Industry 4.0 are implemented in enterprises of various industries. This paper focuses on presenting the results of research on the influence of the Industry 4.0 concept on the operations of enterprises that are implementing smart manufacturing (SM) projects. The paper analyses the following areas of influence of projects on the enterprises’ operations: productivity, agility and speed, quality, competitiveness and enterprise value, profitability, staff reduction, delivery improvements, vertical and horizontal integration, resource savings, reduction of operating costs, technology adaptability and quality of machine operations. The paper belongs to the research paper category. The research tool was a questionnaire. The research was carried out in the segment of steel enterprises in Poland. The results of the presented research belong to pilot research of a segment of steel industry in Poland. The main conclusion of the study is that implementation of Industry 4.0 in the Polish steel sector had a positive influence on many factors strictly connected with the innovativeness of the company. Especially, the implementation of this conception in the steel sector leads to an increase in the quality of the product and the possibility to achieve a good level of customization of the product. Those factors are very important for the steel sector potential to succeed on the competitive market. The individual SM projects that were evaluated were a form of case study. The participants of the research were employees in managerial positions and operating technological installations in steel sector enterprises. In the opinion of the surveyed (79 people), depending on the type and scope of changes implemented in the company in the direction of Industry 4.0, decision-makers expect a higher quality of processes and products, the ability to meet customer requirements—the direction of the personalization of products and services, agility and flexibility of performed operations with the use of smart technology and accuracy and precision of performance higher than in the case of manual human activities.

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“…The umbrella term ‘Industry 4.0’ refers to the Internet of Things, blockchain, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud‐based systems, machine learning and 3DP. The rapid technological changes we have witnessed over the last two decades have had a profound impact on the way GVCs operate and innovate (Dilyard et al., 2021). Dilyard et al.…”

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Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing

Johns

2021

Global Networks

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This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on digitalization and technological upgrading in global value chains (GVCs). It focuses on the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM)-a particular type of 'Industry 4.0' technology-by manufacturing GVCs and its impact on process and production upgrade. Drawing on extensive qualitative research in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, including 54 interviews and participant observation firms, it examines the AM industry and its adoption in manufacturing firms. The findings contribute to existing understandings of technological upgrading in GVCs by differentiating between different types of actors within GVCs, focusing on produce and process upgrading in lead firms and in original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and lower-tier suppliers. It finds that OEM and lower-tier firms are using AM to upgrade and capture value in different ways to lead firms, with implications for relationships between actors. The paper also highlights the sectoral variation in the adoption of AM and reflects on the contemporary and future role of this digital technology in manufacturing GVCs.

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Digital innovation and Industry 4.0 for global value chain resilience: Lessons learned and ways forward

Cited by 61 publications

References 21 publications

Changes in Logistics Activities in Poland as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Changes in Logistics Activities in Poland as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Influence of Industry 4.0 Projects on Business Operations: Literature and Empirical Pilot Studies Based on Case Studies in Poland

Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing

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