From forest to finished products: The contribution of Industry 4.0 technologies to the wood sector

Molinaro, Margherita; Orzes, Guido

doi:10.1016/j.compind.2022.103637

Cited by 35 publications

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“…There are several strategies that can be leveraged to conserve, protect, and enhance natural resources. These include ecological strategies, which are based on the management and planning of the resource and its services, such as biodiversity conservation (Li et al, 2022), restoration interventions in tropical rural landscapes (Pfeifer et al, 2023) and forest landscape restoration (Mansourian et al, 2020); social strategies, which are based for example on networking between stakeholders, such as interagency and civil society cooperation for wildfire management (Davis et al, 2022) or business networks for wood products industries (Mattila et al, 2016); economic and market strategies, which are useful for accounting for natural resources, analysing innovation in industrial process and products, and attributing an economic value to goods that generally do not have a price, such as the valuation of natural capital and its services (Deane et al, 2022) or industrial process innovation in forestry (Molinaro and Orzes, 2022); and finally, political strategies, aimed at adopting programmes and plans on different spatial scales and raising awareness among civil societies, such as wetland implementation policies (Graversgaard et al, 2021) or awareness-raising on river water pollution (Awoke et al, 2016).…”

Section: Strategies For Natural Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multicriteria Analysis to Support Natural Resource Governance. The Case of Chestnut Forests

Bruzzese¹,

Blanc²,

Novelli³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Efficient natural resource management prevents and reduces negative impacts, such as environmental damage, misappropriation of resources, and conflicts; several strategies can be leveraged to conserve, protect, and enhance natural resources. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is useful in providing solutions to addressing decision-choice problems. In this study, the natural resource under evaluation is the chestnut forest, with the objective of valorising its supply chains. The methodology applied is A'WOT, which allows previously identified factors through a qualitative SWOT matrix, to be ordered through an objective quantification using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), which is a multicriteria decision-support method. The survey was conducted with a group of chestnut resource (n=20) experts. The SWOT matrix identified a total of 20 factors: 6 strengths and 6 weaknesses and 4 factors each for opportunities and threats. The results express a clear stakeholder interest, which identifies the significant role of civil society in directing management choices for the provision and enhancement of ecosystem and vocational services. This study evaluated the adaptability of decision-support tools applied to a real case of forest resource management to identify and order factors useful to enhance the resource and stimulate the supply chains to achieve greater added value. In a general sense, the methodological potential emerged to replicate or improve the research in other geographical regions, whether regional or extra-regional, or even on a larger scale, such as on a national level.

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Section: Strategies For Natural Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multicriteria Analysis to Support Natural Resource Governance. The Case of Chestnut Forests

Bruzzese¹,

Blanc²,

Novelli³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…of an organization as an economic dimension outcome. With the help of I4TEs, real-time information sharing is available to manage resources and processes more efficiently [86][87][88]. These networks are known as disruptive technologies and serve as competitive weapons.…”

Section: Industry 40 Technologies and Digital Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Performance through Digital Supply Chains in Industry 4.0 Era: Amidst the Pandemic Experience

Joshi

Sharma

2022

Sustainability

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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic disruption, industry 4.0 technologies (I4TEs) and digital supply chains (DSCs) are reinforcing businesses to gain economic stability and agility to enrich their sustainable performance (S.P.). Survey methods have been deployed based on the constructs obtained from the literature. Data collection through a survey resulted in 202 valid responses. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirms the constructs and the mediating effect of the DSCs through partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The study is among the few studies that examine the I4TE impact on DSCs and S.P. The results show that industry 4.0 technologies enhance the sustainable performance of firms. Results also show a complete mediation of DSCs on the inter-relationship between I4TEs and S.P. Those DSCs with I4TE inclusion can transform an organization’s strategic decision-making. For the authors, this study is the first of its kind. Although some of the literature explored different aspects of the concept of industry 4.0 and digitalizing supply chains, studies have yet to specifically evaluate the potential impacts of digital supply chains on sustainable performance. The novelty of DSCs is their support of firms in improving their preparedness, agility, and transparency to strengthen their sustainable performance. These DSCs will provide agile, collaboration, responsiveness, end-to-end visibility, and resilient supply chains to diminish supply risk and enrich preparedness and responsiveness to recuperate quickly from uncertainty amidst the pandemic. The study will help managers re-designing their strategic planning, resulting in new cost reduction and resilience models for supply chains. The study calls for firms to employ multiple DSCs once they have set clear strategic priorities. The overall findings of the work fill the literature gaps of studies in the digitalization of supply chains.

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“…Fresh food and meat also require a cold chain to maintain their temperature and humidity. Other industries include plastic (Pekarcikova et al 2021 ) for making PVC pipes and other daily usage products, forest or wood (Molinaro and Orzes 2022 ) for making paper, and the fish industry (Tsolakis et al 2021 ).…”

Section: Dynamic Industriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A bibliometric study on blockchain-based supply chain: a theme analysis, adopted methodologies, and future research agenda

Shoaib

Zhang

Ali

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The emergence of the underlying blockchain technology of bitcoin has gained extensive attention from researchers and practitioners. As distributed ledger technology, blockchain widely finds its applications in the supply chain to mitigate issues related to transparency, information sharing, process efficiency, and traceability. This study employed a knowledge-based visualization technique to create a vision beyond other review studies on the blockchain-based supply chain. We used bibliometric and network analysis to synthesize the previous literature. In total, 431 articles in the timespan of 2017 to April 2022 from Scopus and Web of Science (WOS) databases were analyzed after applying search string, inclusion, and exclusion criteria. Basic information was extracted from initial data screening; then, data was analyzed on the grounds of co-occurrence, bibliographic coupling, citation, co-authorship, and co-citation analysis. In addition, thematic analysis was performed to analyze the content of the previous studies, adopted research methods, and dynamic industries in the literature. Besides all these, we identified various research gaps and proposed research directions for future study. We believe that this study provides adequate knowledge to academic scholars and supply chain practitioners to fast-track the current research in the supply chain domain using blockchain technology.

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From forest to finished products: The contribution of Industry 4.0 technologies to the wood sector

Cited by 35 publications

References 113 publications

A Multicriteria Analysis to Support Natural Resource Governance. The Case of Chestnut Forests

A Multicriteria Analysis to Support Natural Resource Governance. The Case of Chestnut Forests

Sustainable Performance through Digital Supply Chains in Industry 4.0 Era: Amidst the Pandemic Experience

A bibliometric study on blockchain-based supply chain: a theme analysis, adopted methodologies, and future research agenda

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