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Supply Chain Design and Management in the Industry 4.0 Era
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Supply Chain Design and Management in the Industry 4.0 Era

A special issue of Designs (ISSN 2411-9660). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Manufacturing System Design".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 12397

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Roberto Gabbrielli

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Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: production planning and control; decision support systems; reliability of production systems; profitability analysis
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Prof. Dr. Marcello Braglia

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Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: optimization; operations management; logistics; production engineering; lean manufacturing; inventory management
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Dr. Leonardo Marrazzini

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Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: industrial design; industrial management; lean manufacturing; production engineering, production planning and control; decision support systems
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Prof. Dr. Marco Frosolini

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Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: design engineering; optimization; big data analytics, simulation modeling, operations management; logistics; production engineering; lean manufacturing; quality management
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Mr. Luca Padellini

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Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via Girolamo Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: supply chain management; industry 4.0; smart industry; simulation modeling; lean manufacturing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few years, supply chains have received rising attention with the rapid growth of global industries and brands. Consumers have started to demand more flexible and customized products and, consequently, industries are required to shorten production times and to cope with shorter product life cycles. All these features have brought many challenges to the supply chains.

In this context, the Industry 4.0 revolution introduced new tools to improve processes and management, but it also originated new challenges due to the introduction of new technologies. These changes have led to a revision of the methodologies of supply chain design and management. Moreover, the recent pandemic has forced further changes, speeding up the digitization of many processes. Companies discovered that agility was crucial to their short-term continuity and even long-term survival.

This Special Issue is, therefore, aimed at exploring the abundant research opportunities associated with supply chain design and management, and laying down a foundation for future research on this topic. Manuscript submissions in the areas that are mentioned as keywords below are highly encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Roberto Gabbrielli
Prof. Dr. Marcello Braglia
Dr. Leonardo Marrazzini
Prof. Dr. Marco Frosolini
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Mr. Luca Padellini
Guest Editor Assistant

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Designs is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Supply chain
  • Supply chain management
  • Supply chain design
  • Industry 4.0
  • Digitization and digitalization
  • Internet of things
  • Simulation modeling
  • Digital twin
  • Smart manufacturing
  • Horizontal and vertical integration

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Italian Footwear Supply Chain of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)—Evaluation of Two Case Studies
by Marcello Braglia, Leonardo Marrazzini and Luca Padellini
Designs 2022, 6(2), 23; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/designs6020023 - 01 Mar 2022
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This paper aims to provide a case study related to two small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Italian footwear supply chain, comparing sales and production data from pre-pandemic years with those affected by the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Specifically, two Tuscany companies in [...] Read more.
This paper aims to provide a case study related to two small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Italian footwear supply chain, comparing sales and production data from pre-pandemic years with those affected by the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Specifically, two Tuscany companies in the world of fashion footwear sector have been assisted in the analysis of their supply chains. In particular, the case research method has been employed for theory building to evaluate how companies reacted to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to focus on potential resilience strategies that could be adopted to deal with a disruption, such as that caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, in order to understand the dynamics of the supply chains, the standard production processes were initially studied and mapped, analyzing in detail the planning, programming, and control phase. After conducting a descriptive analysis of the data, possible resilience factors of SMEs’ fashion supply chains have been extracted, and strategies that SMEs could adopt to better cope with the disruption caused by the pandemic have been suggested. The outcomes of this study can be used by decision-makers to predict the operative and long-term impacts of epidemic outbreaks on the supply chains with some suggestions of potential resilience improvement strategies. The paper is concluded by summarizing the most important insights and outlining future research agenda. Full article
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Agile Powertrain Development: Considerations to Incorporate Agile Principles
by Andreas Lukas, Oliver Moerth-Teo, Lukas Schwarz, Hans P. Schnöll, Matthias Wolf and Christian Ramsauer
Designs 2021, 5(4), 60; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/designs5040060 - 27 Sep 2021
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Pressure to increase effectiveness and efficiency drives the product development process. The software industry has been using agile development approaches due to their advantages when coping with uncertainties and simultaneously increasing value. Therefore, the following work deals with the considerations of agile powertrain [...] Read more.
Pressure to increase effectiveness and efficiency drives the product development process. The software industry has been using agile development approaches due to their advantages when coping with uncertainties and simultaneously increasing value. Therefore, the following work deals with the considerations of agile powertrain development. In order to identify important conditions for the incorporation of agile principles into powertrain development, semistructured interviews were conducted with experts from an engineering company. Having identified agile development challenges, advantages, and principles, the next step is comparing agile principles with the current principles of conventional powertrain development. Furthermore, a basic understanding of the powertrain development process regarding the incorporation of agile principles is established, the main attributes of powertrain development are investigated, and the key disciplines involved are identified. Finally, a model is created to assess whether the application of an agile or conventional development approach is more suitable. Full article
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Lot Streaming in Different Types of Production Processes: A PRISMA Systematic Review
by Alexandra Salazar-Moya and Marcelo V. Garcia
Designs 2021, 5(4), 67; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/designs5040067 - 19 Oct 2021
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At present, any industry that wanted to be considered a vanguard must be willing to improve itself, developing innovative techniques to generate a competitive advantage against its direct competitors. Hence, many methods are employed to optimize production processes, such as Lot Streaming, which [...] Read more.
At present, any industry that wanted to be considered a vanguard must be willing to improve itself, developing innovative techniques to generate a competitive advantage against its direct competitors. Hence, many methods are employed to optimize production processes, such as Lot Streaming, which consists of partitioning the productive lots into overlapping small batches to reduce the overall operating times known as Makespan, reducing the delivery time to the final customer. This work proposes carrying out a systematic review following the PRISMA methodology to the existing literature in indexed databases that demonstrates the application of Lot Streaming in the different production systems, giving the scientific community a strong consultation tool, useful to validate the different important elements in the definition of the Makespan reduction objectives and their applicability in the industry. Two hundred papers were identified on the subject of this study. After applying a group of eligibility criteria, 63 articles were analyzed, concluding that Lot Streaming can be applied in different types of industrial processes, always keeping the main objective of reducing Makespan, becoming an excellent improvement tool, thanks to the use of different optimization algorithms, attached to the reality of each industry. Full article
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