Supply Chain Digital Transformation: Insights and Tools

From a business perspective, digital transformation can be described as using digital technologies to create innovations in services and products. It is not just digitalizing existing routine business processes and moving from traditional sales to e-commerce. Digitalization is the cause of largescale and profound transformations across multiple aspects of business, providing great opportunities for value creation and capture, but it is also a major source of risk. In today’s business climate, with all industries being disrupted at every turn, companies must be able to quickly change their products and processes to take advantage of new market opportunities.

In this paper, we will underline the significant differences between traditional and digital supply chain networks, mention challenges you can face during the digital transformation of your supply chain, and run through solutions and tools that can address these kinds of challenges.

Authors

• Dr. Robert De Souza is the Executive Director and Chief Executive of The Logistics Institute — Asia Pacific, an award-winning unit based at the National University of Singapore. Dr. de Souza is a Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He has published extensively and is a member of several editorial boards of international journals.
  
• Dr. Linda William is a Research Fellow and Manager in The Logistics Institute — Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore. She has published a book and articles for international conferences and in academic journals such as the Journal of the Operation Research Society and the Journal of Urban Sciences.
  
• Giuseppe Timperio is a Research Engineer in The Logistics Institute — Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore. He has published several articles for international conferences and in academic journals such as the Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics and the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.