During the last decade, digitalization has borne tremendous changes on the way we live and do business. Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution, is merging the physical, digital and virtual worlds through emerging technologies that collide with each other and create a distinctive paradigm...

The article is an analysis of materials management in different areas of functioning of manufacturing enterprises, with particular reference to the costs generated by it and all possible risk factors. The overall objective is to demonstrate, on the basis of the study in the furniture industry,...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction and summaries -- What is demand-driven SCM? -- Why demand-driven SCM? -- How to operate a demand-driven supply chain -- Demand-driven SCM and lean -- Why aren't we already using demand-driven SCM? -- The demand driven institute, demand-driven MRP and SaaS -- What...