Digital and Hyperconnected Supply Chain Systems

Description

As it is obvious since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Supply Chain Systems (SCSs), both in private and public sectors, are now coping with more and more uncertainties and variabilities. Additionally, their stakeholders are more and more intensely digitalized and interconnected, increasing potential risks but also revealing new opportunities at anytime and anywhere. In such a context, managers, public and governemental authorities must rethink their decision support systems to remain competitive and sustainable globally.

In all domains, and particularly in public area, Digital and Hyperconnected SCSs will soon be the new normal. Collaborative networked systems such as public SCSs should be opportunity-oriented to build agreements on-the-fly and get exceptional results. Such systems are bound to gradually move from being driven by long-term strategic alliances, as it systematically exists in public sector, to being opportunity-driven goal-oriented networks. More recently, authors showed that these systems are more and more intensely interconnected on multiple layers, ultimately anytime and anywhere. The interconnectivity layers notably include digital, physical, operational, business, legal and personal layers. This new state is notably called “hyperconnectivity” in the “Physical Internet” framework. Such a state implies numerous new opportunities for managers, public and governemental authorities, particularly regarding the possibility for SCSs to become more flexible, dynamically driven and open instead of rigid, planned with static policies and dedicated. This allows considering a set of partners and infrastructures not limited to the known and active ones, opening avenues and degrees of freedom when aiming to catch opportunities on the fly as they occur. One of the serious challenges facing governments of the world relate to develop resilient, sustainable and efficient SCSs. Unfortunately, to date, very few practices and research works support this ambition. Consequently, managers, public and governemental authorities are looking for innovative systems and associated decision support systems designed to engineer, improve and manage their activities in this new typical environment. This minitrack features digitalized and hyperconnected SCS engineering and management, especially in public context, participating in the development of a more efficient, resilient and sustainable society. These issues should be tackled at each level of the governance.

We invite papers that deal with any aspect of the analysis, design, development, deployment, implementation, integration, improvement, use or evaluation of SCSs, particularly in public sector, in a highly digitalized and/or interconnected context. Besides, we support innovative and break-through visions regarding digitalization and hyperconnectivity capabilities and their applications.

Topics of Interests

• Public Authority and Company’s Roles in Supply Chain Hyperconnectivity and/or Digitalization
• Public Authority Stakes and Challenges for Hyperconnectivity and/or Digitalization of Supply Chain Systems
• Global System Analysis and Engineering of Interconnected Network of Public Organizations
• Public Supply Chains and Public Supply Chain Management in Hyperconnected or Digitalized context
• Vertical Management of Information Flows (from very local to the highest governmental level)
• Vertical Management of Material Flows (from very local to the highest governmental level)
• Hyperconnected and/or Digital Supply Chain System Design, Control and Management
• Hyperconnected and/or Digital Supply Chain Performance Measurement and/or Analysis Systems
• Physical Internet Theory and Practices, particularly for public applications
• Digital Supply Chain Systems Theory and Practices, particularly in public context
• Supply Chain Engineering in Hyperconnected and/or Digital Environments
• Data-Driven and/or Event-Driven Public Supply Chain Management

Minitrack Leaders

Louis Faugère is a research engineer at Amazon Research. He is also a research scientist at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in and Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering, with concentration in Supply Chain Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also received a "Diplôme d'Ingénieur" in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (France) and a Master of Science in Supply Chain Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Louis is primarily interested in the research at the intersection of the Physical Internet, Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics. In particular, his research contributions focus on designing and managing complex systems with Industrial Engineering, Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence techniques. Louis' research is industry-oriented which is apparent in his work in supporting Georgia Tech’s Physical Internet Center operations as well as working closely with the panel of collaborative research projects with industry partners.

Matthieu Lauras is Full-Professor and Deputy-Head of the Industrial Engineering Center at IMT Mines Albi. He is the Pierre Fabre “Agile Supply Chain” Chair and the scientific director of various public-private joint research labs and research projects. He is research fellow at the Physical Internet Center, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). He is affiliate professor at the School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University (China). He is also the scientific director of the Supply Chain Management consulting and training company AGILEA (France) which he cofounded in 2009. His research works develop contributions to support collaborative networks’ stakeholders to better make their decisions in uncertain and/or disruptive environment. His research activities concern both industrial management systems and crisis management systems. He stands at the crossroads of industrial engineering; operations research; computer sciences; supply chain management; artificial intelligence; and risk management. He also has strong entrepreneurial and collaborative research experience with industry.

Samuel Fosso Wamba is Full Professor at Toulouse Business School. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on the business value of IT, inter-organizational systems adoption and use, supply chain management, electronic commerce, blockchain, artificial intelligence in business, social media, business analytics, big data and open data. He has published papers in top journals including Academy of Management Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Cleaner Production, Information Systems Frontiers, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Business Research, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Production Planning & Control, and Business Process Management Journal. Prof Fosso Wamba is organizing special issues on IT-related topics for leading international journals. He won the best paper award of The Academy of Management Journal in 2017 and the papers of the year 2017 of The Electronic Markets: The International Journal on Networked Business. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Logistics Management information and The Electronic Markets: The International Journal on Networked Business. He serves on the editorial board of five international journals. Prof Fosso Wamba is CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional, Academic Co-Founder of RFID Academia. He is the Coordinator of the newly created Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics Cluster of Toulouse Business School, France.