Companies have to take sustainability into consideration, nowadays. This paper analyses the impacts of environmental and cost effects on product development partnerships in the German foundry value chain. The starting point of the paper is a survey conducted in the period, end of 2012 /...

Purpose: To meet rapidly changing requirements and increasing product complexity, a growing number of traditional companies and startups increases their agility by using agile methods. The logistics industry in particular is known to be a comparatively slow adapter to changes in general, but...

According to the Hamburger Klimaplan, 50% of all vehicles in public fleets in the city of Hamburg are to run on electricity by the year 2020. For state owned enterprises, a reduced percentage of 35% is expected (Bürgerschaft der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Drucksache 21/2521, 8.12.15). The...

Purpose: Product modularization and supply chain integration have establishedthemselves as efficient methods for complexity management, but a holistic view oftheir effects has rarely been studied. For this reason, we demonstrate a conceptwhich presents these effects along the product life-cycle...

Purpose: The aerospace supply chain is characterized by a high degree of small andmedium-sized suppliers. To stay competitive, suppliers are facing high pressures todigitalize their business but have limited resources available. Furthermore, aerospacesuppliers lack a framework to measure their...

Purpose: The sustainable development of Arctic maritime supply chains requires an effective balance between economic growth, environmental protection and social relations. Existing Arctic development projects are often distinguished by single-criterion decision making - economic growth to the...

Purpose: The Arctic is of interest for many states and commercial organizations as it has a large undiscovered potential but very challenging climate and logistical conditions. Arctic maritime logistics need significant investments in infrastructure and is supposed to cause a minimal impact on...

Purpose: Additive manufacturing (AM) enables the manufacturing of metal parts and is therefore increasingly important for industry. Unfortunately, the manufactured parts exhibit many imperfections, such as faults or other quality defects. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) allows for the...

Purpose: Especially in supply chain management (SCM), data has become essential to the success of companies. Traditional analytical methods are being augmented by machine learning (ML), which is considered the foremost relevant branch of artificial intelligence. This article maps various ML...

Purpose: Increasing quantity and sources of data and their potential to fuel value-adding applications in Supply Chain Management (SCM) are of considerable importance for corporations. Methodology: We utilize a qualitative research design of semi-structured expert interviews. Findings: Utilizing...