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Enhancing B2B supply chain traceability using smart contracts and IoT

Ahmed, Mohamed; Taconet, Chantal; Ould, Mohamed; … - 2020

Purpose: The management of B2B supply chains that involve many stakeholders re-quires traceability processes. Those processes need to be secured. Furthermore, quality traceability data has to be transparently shared among the stakeholders. In order to improve the traceability process, we propose...

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Semantic service discovery in heterogeneous cyber-physical systems

Lober, Andreas; Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Verbeet, Richard - 2020

Purpose: A primary requirement of Industry 4.0 and realization of Cyber-Physical Systems in production and logistics is the dynamic connection of physical and digital components. Service-oriented Architectures are a well established approach to meet this requirement. However, a service discovery...

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Identification of sociotechnical changes caused by Industry 4.0

Schnasse, Felix; Menzefricke, Jörn Steffen; Gabriel, Stefan - 2020

Purpose: Industry 4.0 provides significant potentials for companies. Despite the promising opportunities, companies, especially SME, are still hesitant to implement new technologies. The main reasons are far-reaching changes with respect to the socio-technical dimensions causing risks that are...

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Mastering the supply chain by a concept of a ditigal control-twin

Herlyn, Wilmjakob; Zadek, Hartmut - 2020

Purpose: The purpose is to design a new concept for control of the Supply-Chain for the era of industry 4.0 exploiting the huge amount of actual data of material flow objects which are available thru new identification technologies, localization and communication systems and to use appropriate...

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Blockchain technology in Germany: An excerpt of real use cases in logistics industry

Bartsch, Devis; Winkler, Herwig - 2020

Purpose: Due to the large number of intermediaries in logistics networks there is avariety of possible failures, frictions and waste of time and money among the logisticsprocess chain. With the ability to provide data securely in near real-time, liketrack and tracing data of goods to every...

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Preventing mental strain for logistics workers: Guideline development

Schwarz, Patrick; Klumpp, Matthias - 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the introduction of a guideline, which aims to help prevent mental strain for logistics workers in an increasingly digitalized work environment. The guideline originates from the findings of computer science experimental rooms (IR) and...

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Shared Digital Twins: Data sovereignty in logistics networks

Haße, Hendrik; van der Valk, Hendrik; Weißenberg, Norbert - 2020

Purpose: Digital Twins attract much attention in science and practice, because of their capability to integrate operational data from a wide variety of sources. Thus, providing a complete overview of an asset throughout its entire life cycle. This article develops and demonstrates a Digital...

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A holistic digitalization KPI framework for the aerospace industry

Krol, Felix; Saeed, Muhammad Amad; Kersten, Wolfgang - 2020

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...

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Success factors for online food retail logistics

Beckmann, Anne; Kleineidam, Julia; Straube, Frank - 2020

Purpose: While e-commerce in general has been growing rapidly for years, food e-commerce is lagging behind in Germany …-sidering this problem, success factors are needed as a guideline for developing effec-tive fulfilment concepts for online food … search engine about 20 case studies on online food fulfilment con-cepts are identified. The case studies are evaluated using …

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Selecting the right platform - The perspective of logistics service providers

Haas, Jonas; Seiter, Mischa - 2020

Purpose: Digital platforms provide logistics service providers (LSPs) the opportunity to increase their capacity utilization. Since there are a large number of reasonable alternatives, LSPs should be able to systematically assess different platforms. How-ever, there is little knowledge on...

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