Purpose: This paper contributes to the literature on supply chain process management by discussing how Industry 4.0 technologies can support process re-engineering in the context of the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discusses the impact of Industry 4.0...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that explains how new product development and supply chain variables are related to one another and how they affect performance. Design/methodology/approach – The insights from literature and an exploratory case study are combined...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the role of organizational and cultural tools to increase supply chain security within the intermodal rail and road industry. Three main research questions are set, regarding: what organizational and cultural tools are used by companies within the...

This paper aims at investigating the relations between supply chain design decisions (i.e. number of supply chain levels, number of nodes at each level, number of sources for each node and distance between nodes) and supply chain performance (i.e. stock-outs at the retailer level) in a...

Much of the literature on modularity assumes that firms with modular products adopt modular organization. In the realm of supply chain management, no consensus has been reached on the effects of product modularity on supply chains (SC). This paper investigates whether SC choices depend on...

This article presents a new simulation-based meta-model to support logistics providers in sizing transhipment systems. The meta-model is made up of: a user interface with database (where system elements and their parameters are specified); a library of objects (which represent all the elements...