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Smart Supply Network—Drivers, Opportunities, and Challenges

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SMART Supply Network

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This paper details our effort in determining how technological advancement facilitates business relationship and ameliorates the competitive advantage of supply network. Using business network management literature, current knowledge employs Activity-Resource-Actor Model (ARAM) to recap the drivers, opportunities, and challenges of smart technologies in a supply network. The following discussions reveal that in presence of technological advancement, precise knowledge sharing, stronger social co-creation, smart management, and robust legal system, business relationship and supplier collaboration can benefit from a sustainable, modern, adaptive, robust, and technology-oriented activity links, resource ties, and actor bonds, per se, smart supply network. The paper confirms that digital-linked activities empower businesses and help them gain more from interdependencies benefits. Digital-linked resources enhance heterogeneity advantage, while digital-bonded actors are obtained from transcendence. The benefits derived from digitizing activity links, resource ties, and an actor bond is reliant upon a company’s own activity structure, interdependencies, and connectedness. However, the challenges of direct/indirect relationship costs prevent companies benefiting from a smart supply network.

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  1. Center of Post Graduate Studies, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT), Cyberjaya, Malaysia

    Meghdad Abbasian Fereidouni & Sara Ravan Ramzani

  2. Department of Economics, Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya, Malaysia

    Khatereh Azar Noor

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Fereidouni, M.A., Azar Noor, K., Ramzani, S.R. (2019). Smart Supply Network—Drivers, Opportunities, and Challenges. In: Kawa, A., Maryniak, A. (eds) SMART Supply Network. EcoProduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91668-2_4

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