Direct digital manufacturing, or ‘3D printing’ as it is more commonly known, offers a wealth of opportunities for product and process innovation, and is often touted to ‘revolutionize’ today’s manufacturing operations and its associated supply chains structures. Despite a growing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the forms that combinations of digital manufacturing, logistics and equipment use are likely to take and how these novel combinations may affect the relationship among logistics service providers (LSPs), users and manufacturers of equipment....

Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D-Printing consists in the "process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies". It is a technology that falls under the category of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies....

Studies the problem of forecasting demand on the article level in a competitive consumer goods market. First the conventional approach to forecasting is discussed. A number of weak points of the demand forecasting unit approach are identified. Next, a new approach to forecasting based on...